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Blavatnik Honresfield Library
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Patrick Branwell Brontë; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
c17th - 19th century
Manuscripts, letters and books belonging to the Blavatnik Honresfield Library, collected during the late nineteenth century by William Law. The manuscript items relate to the Brontë family, and inc...
'Visits in Verreopolis/By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley/Vol I.'
7-18 Dec 1830
Autograph miniature manuscript, the first of two volumes. Title page reads 'Visits in Verreopolis by Lord Charles Wellesley in Two Volumes […] Published by Sergeant Tree and sold by all other bookse...
'Visits in Verreopolis/By Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley/Vol II.'
18 Dec 1830
Autograph miniature manuscript, the second of two volumes. Title page reads 'Visits in Weropolis [sic] By The Honourable Charles, Albert, Florian Lord Wellesley, Aged 10 years/ In Two Volumes - Volume...
Fireside Tales, or the Return to Zamorna
[Dec. 1836 – Jan. 1837]
Autograph miniature manuscript commencing “Reader I’ll tell you what - my heart is like to break ...”. Unsigned and undated, later titled “FIRESIDE TALES” on cover and at end in another hand...
[The Duke of Zamorna], autograph miniature manuscript
July 1838
Autograph miniature manuscript, untitled, signed ("C Brontë" and “William Percy”) and dated 21 July 1838 at the end, commencing “In a distant retreat very far indeed from the turmoil of cities...
Elizabeth Gaskell letter concerning Haworth sanitation
26 September 1853
Letter written from Plymouth Grove addressed to an unidentified correspondent. Gaskell begins by asking them to “pity the sorrows of two poor authoresses (“...Miss Brontë, the authoress of Jane E...
Elizabeth Gaskell Letter concerning Haworth sanitation
29 Sept 1853
Letter, written from Plymouth Grove, presumably to same correspondent as MS 2266/05. Gaskell thanks him for his prompt assistance and complains of the difficulty of getting any parish to comply with t...
Branwell Brontë letter to Hartley Coleridge
20 April 1840
Letter, written from Broughton-in-Furness, addressed to Coleridge introducing himself and sending him examples his poetry for criticism, enclosing autograph manuscript fair copies of ‘At dead of mid...
Branwell Brontë letter to Hartley Coleridge
27 June 1840
Letter addressed to Hartley Coleridge, written from Haworth, recalling “the delightful day which I had the honour of spending with you at Ambleside”, and sending him his completed translation of H...