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Total number of records: 63
Sender: Nussey, Ellen
Recipient: Atkinson, Annie, Mrs
Letters: 52
Date(s): 22 Mar 1893 - 4 Oct 1897; 18 n.d.
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Nussey
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Transcriptions of letters only, no originals present. Including transcriptions of four press-cuttings and two Christmas cards. Domestic trivia, mainly removals, illnesses and servant troubles. No Brontë material is included.
Sender: Bailey, M., Canon
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 3
Date(s): 15 Apr 1887 - 6 May 1887
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 97-99 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: On his attempts to disprove that Mr Roberton was the original Revd Melstone in "Shirley". News of Mrs Henry Browne. Typed transcripts: originals at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Nov [1881?]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.110 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Returning six letters from Charlotte Brontë, and suggesting she brings out a volume of letters from herself, which he would arrange; this might prevent [Alpheus] Wilkes from producing a garbled version. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 28 Feb 1881
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.111 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: On provision of a Brontë memorial in Haworth church, etc. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 2
Date(s): 27 Mar 1882; 18 Apr 1882
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 112-3 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: The first letter is about Mary Robinson's projected life of Emily Brontë suggests Miss Nussey records all her memories of the Brontë sister's daily lives; plans for brass memorial tablet in Haworth church; second letter is about her Brontë letters received; has replied to Mary Robinson's letter. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 May 1882
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 114 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Emily Brontë born at Thornton, near Bradford: if Miss Nussey can supply the vicar's name, he will write for details of birth from parish register there. Proposed wording for Brontë memorial tablet. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 May 1883
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 115 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Opinion of Mary Robinson's "Emily Brontë": she dwells overmuch on Branwell Brontë. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 10
Date(s): 29 Nov 1884 - 22 May 1887
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 116-125 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Mainly on Miss Nussey's letters from Charlotte Brontë. (121) on Francis Leyland's "The Brontë Family" and his views on Branwell Brontë as author of "Wuthering Heights"; (123) fortunate that Charlotte Brontë asserted Emily's authorship. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 30 Aug 1891
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 126 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Acknowledging letter. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Apr 1892
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 127 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Has just been reading Charlotte Brontë's delightful letters, "brimful ... of humour and fun". A pity Miss Nussey has no similar ones from Emily - would she search for any? He has become a Darwinite. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Bigelow, John
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Mar 1870
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 71 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Has told Scribner's that he cannot edit her Charlotte Brontë correspondence for them, as he now finds that all the interesting material has already been published by Mrs Gaskell in her "Life". He cannot recommend a complete republication of the correspondence. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Birrell, Augustine
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 Oct 1889
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 135 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Has seen [Antony] Nussey and agreed a lawyer's letter should be sent to Horsfall Turner compelling him to return Miss Nussey's letters from Charlotte Brontë. She should publish them in the United States, through Scribner's. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.