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Bronte, Patrick (Rector of Haworth)	2
Shuttleworth, Sir James	1
Bronte, Maria (Nee Branwell)	1

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Sender: Brontë, Maria (nee Branwell)

Recipient: Brontë, Patrick (Rector of Haworth)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Nov 1812

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte F1, bound with MS "The Advantages of Poverty..." in one volume

Note: 3pp. 4to. A most interesting love-letter written by Maria Branwell to the Revd P Brontë shortly before their wedding. The letter commences "My dear Saucy Pat" and expresses the deepest affection.

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Sender: Brontë, Patrick (Rector of Haworth)

Recipient: Shuttleworth, Sir James

Letters: 1

Date(s): 3 Jul 1855

Location: BC Brontë - SAFE

Note: A letter of four pages referring to Charlotte's indisposition and the views of the village surgeon and of Dr Mackintosh of Bradford. Statements about his own eyesight and its gradual improvement. Sympathy with Sir James and Lady Kay Shuttleworth in their bereavement and ill-health. Hopes that "my dear daughter" will get better soon and write. An extract was printed in "The life and work of Sir James Kay Shuttleworth" by Frank Smith, 1923.