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Mrs. Cooke, Jane's cousin, reads Frances Burney a letter from her sister Mrs. Leigh. It reports Warren Hastings's offer to find support for Burney's novel Camilla. Life and Letters, p. 275 quotes the diary to compare Hastings's support of Burney with his later admiration of Jane's writing. The words below are Mrs. Leigh's report of Hastings, not a letter from Jane or a promise to publish one of Jane's books.
Mr. Hastings I saw just now; I told him what was going forward; he gave a great jump and exclaimed: "Well, then, now I can serve her, thank heaven, and I will! I will write to Anderson to engage Scotland, and I will attack the East Indies myself."
Extract from Life and Letters (1913), p. 275.