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Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Nov [1881?]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.110 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Returning six letters from Charlotte Brontë, and suggesting she brings out a volume of letters from herself, which he would arrange; this might prevent [Alpheus] Wilkes from producing a garbled version. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 28 Feb 1881
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.111 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: On provision of a Brontë memorial in Haworth church, etc. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 May 1882
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 114 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Emily Brontë born at Thornton, near Bradford: if Miss Nussey can supply the vicar's name, he will write for details of birth from parish register there. Proposed wording for Brontë memorial tablet. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 May 1883
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 115 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Opinion of Mary Robinson's "Emily Brontë": she dwells overmuch on Branwell Brontë. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 10
Date(s): 29 Nov 1884 - 22 May 1887
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 116-125 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Mainly on Miss Nussey's letters from Charlotte Brontë. (121) on Francis Leyland's "The Brontë Family" and his views on Branwell Brontë as author of "Wuthering Heights"; (123) fortunate that Charlotte Brontë asserted Emily's authorship. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 30 Aug 1891
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 126 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Acknowledging letter. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Apr 1892
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 127 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Has just been reading Charlotte Brontë's delightful letters, "brimful ... of humour and fun". A pity Miss Nussey has no similar ones from Emily - would she search for any? He has become a Darwinite. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Leyland, Francis A.
Recipient: Biddell, Sidney
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Jul 1883
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 73 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Glad Biddell approves of his letter in defence of P.B. Brontë; hopes his work will show that his talents were equal to those of his sisters. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum, "in an envelope addressed to Miss Nussey, bearing an unbroken seal".