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MS 2266/01

7-18 Dec 1830

Autograph miniature manuscript, the first of two volumes. Title page reads 'Visits in Verreopolis by Lord Charles Wellesley in Two Volumes […] Published by Sergeant Tree and sold by all other bookse...

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MS 2266/02

18 Dec 1830

Autograph miniature manuscript, the second of two volumes. Title page reads 'Visits in Weropolis [sic] By The Honourable Charles, Albert, Florian Lord Wellesley, Aged 10 years/ In Two Volumes - Volume...

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MS 2266/03

[Dec. 1836 – Jan. 1837]

Autograph miniature manuscript commencing “Reader I’ll tell you what - my heart is like to break ...”. Unsigned and undated, later titled “FIRESIDE TALES” on cover and at end in another hand...

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MS 2266/04

July 1838

Autograph miniature manuscript, untitled, signed ("C Brontë" and “William Percy”) and dated 21 July 1838 at the end, commencing “In a distant retreat very far indeed from the turmoil of cities...

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MS 2266/05

26 September 1853

Letter written from Plymouth Grove addressed to an unidentified correspondent. Gaskell begins by asking them to “pity the sorrows of two poor authoresses (“...Miss Brontë, the authoress of Jane E...

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MS 2266/06

29 Sept 1853

Letter, written from Plymouth Grove, presumably to same correspondent as MS 2266/05. Gaskell thanks him for his prompt assistance and complains of the difficulty of getting any parish to comply with t...

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MS 2266/07

20 April 1840

Letter, written from Broughton-in-Furness, addressed to Coleridge introducing himself and sending him examples his poetry for criticism, enclosing autograph manuscript fair copies of ‘At dead of mid...

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MS 2266/08

27 June 1840

Letter addressed to Hartley Coleridge, written from Haworth, recalling “the delightful day which I had the honour of spending with you at Ambleside”, and sending him his completed translation of H...