My dear Caroline

I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can.-I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the good for nothing Father, who was the real author of all her Faults and Sufferings, should not escape unpunished.

I hope he hung himself, or took the sur-name of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.-

Yours affecly**

Dec: 6. J. Austen