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Archive Collection: BC MS 19c Brontë Contains digital media

Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence

Brontë Family

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

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Archive Series: BC MS 19c Brontë/03/02 Series contains records with digital media

Letters from Charlotte Brontë to various correspondents

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

1849 - 1850

Removed from bindings. Typescript transcriptions included.

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Archive Item: BC MS 19c Brontë/03/02/01 Contains digital media

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Miss Alexander

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

18 March 1850

Letter begins, "My Dear Madam, I received your first note as well as your second, and if I did not answer it, my silence arose, not from indifference to the kind feeling it expressed but simply from t...

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Archive Item: BC MS 19c Brontë/03/02/25 Contains digital media

Letter to W S Williams

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

21 August 1849

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to her publisher William Smith Williams discussing possible titles for her new novel including 'Hollow's Mill', 'Fieldhead' and 'Shirley' [her favoured title], and reques...

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Letter to W S Williams

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

20 November 1849

Letter from Charlotte Brontë to her publisher William Smith Williams requesting he send a copy of 'Shirley' to Harriet Martineau. Brontë also mentions receiving a letter from Mrs Gaskell [forwarded ...

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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Mr G H Lewes

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

23 November 1850

Letter begins "My dear Sir, I am glad to hear that Miss Marineau's little story in the 'The Leader' touched you and made you cry", discusses her poor disposition 'I am on the worst terms with myself'...

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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

c. Feb - Mar 1838

Letter begins, "My Dear Ellen, We were at breakfast when your note reached me and I consequently write in a great hurry - Your trials seem to thicken - I trust God with either remove them or - give yo...

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Archive Print Item: BC 19c Bronte 1/BRO

Poems of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë : with, Cottage poems

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Brontë, Anne (1820-1849); Brontë, Patrick (1777-1861)

1893

Includes "Note": p. [vii]-viii.

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Archive Print Item: BC 19c Bronte 1/BRO Contains digital media

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)

1846

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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)

1846

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The Red Cross Knight, and other poems

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

1917

On recto of last leaf: London, Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. Edition limited to thirty copies.

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The orphans, and other poems

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Brontë, Emily (1818-1848); Patrick Branwell Brontë

1917

Colophon: London, Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. Edition limited to thirty copies.

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