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Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Winkworth, Catherine
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Aug 1850
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 9, in volume lettered "Mrs E.C. Gaskell, Letter on Charlotte Brontë. 1849-1856."
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Account of her meeting with Charlotte Brontë at Windermere with some interesting details of the life of the Brontë family.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Winkworth, Catherine
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Oct 1854
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 17, in volume lettered "Mrs E.C. Gaskell and Florence Nightingale"
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Description of Florence Nightingale's appearance, life and work; detailed account of her room, which was Florence Nightingale's; delight in the neighbouring countryside.
Sender: Brontë, Charlotte
Recipient: Winkworth, Catherine
Letters: 1
Date(s): 27 Jul 1854
Location: BC Safe BRO, inserted in printed version: "An account of her honeymoon, by Charlotte Brontë" (Printed for private circulation, 1930)
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: The envelope is also inserted addressed:- "Miss K Winkworth, Plymouth Grove, near Manchester, England, care of Mrs Gaskell". The envelope is stamped and re-addressed to Alderley Edge, presumably by Mrs Gaskell; Plymouth Grove and Mrs Gaskell being crossed out.