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Sender: Nussey, Ellen
Recipient: Smith, George Murray
Letters: 4
Date(s): 20 Feb [18]68 - 27 Feb [18]69
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte, C13, nos.46, 50, 52 & 54
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: 1) Thanks him for gift of "Villette"; complains of rude treatment from Mr Nicholls, who now lives in Ireland. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum. 2) Replying to proposal that she should write an article on Charlotte Brontë in "The Cornhill"; Mrs Gaskell mistaken in seeing no religious element in latter's character. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum. 3) End portion of letters, on Arthur Bell Nicholls? Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum. 4) Mr Nicholls' behaviour has led her to believe that letters from her to Charlotte Brontë still exist, although the latter had said she would destroy all correspondence dating from before her marriage. Relations between them so bad she does not feel able to contact him. Resentment at his treatment of Charlotte's surviving relatives and appropriation of all her property.
Sender: Smith, George Murray
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 13
Date(s): 28 Jul 1857 - 10 May 1878
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos.43-45, 47-49, 51, 53, 55-59 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Typed transcripts: originals at Brontë Parsonage Museum.