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Letters from Branwell Brontë to various correspondents

Archive File: BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01 Contains records with digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Letters from Branwell Brontë to various correspondents

Level: File

Classmark: BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01

Original reference: BC MS 19c Brontë/B4

Date(s): 1842 - 1848

Size and medium: 24 letters, one volume

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/27906

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Letters written by Branwell Brontë and addressed to various correspondents. 21 letters are addressed to Joseph Bentley Leyland, with one address to Francis Grundy, one to John Brown, and a further letter to an anonymous correspondent.


The letters were previously bound together in a single volume with transcripts, titled 'The Leyland Manuscripts'. The volume of transcripts is listed at the end of this sequence (BC MS 19c Brontë/02/25)

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The letters have been arranged chronologically.

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