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BC MS 19c Brontë/01

c1847 - 1860

Notebook containing untitled text attributed to Anne Brontë. The text is a discussion on the truth of the Bible, between two speakers 'S' and 'C'. One is a sceptic, the other a believer who justifies...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/01

15 May 1842

Letter to Joseph Leyland commenting on the drawings Leyland has sent to the Committee appointed to erect a monument to the surgeon Thomas Andrews following his death, and inviting Leyland to a meeting...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/02

29 June 1842

Letter to Joseph Leyland commenting on the monument to Thomas Andrews, surgeon and requesting Leyland visit Brontë in Haworth, along with Mr Constable.

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/03

12 July 1842

Letter to Joseph Leyland mentioning John Brown and Mr Newsholme of Haworth and commenting on the final stages involved in completing the memorial tablet for Thomas Andrews. Letter also refers to Bront...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/04

10 August 1842

Letter to Joseph Leyland requesting that he send John Brown materials for blacking white marble. Also comments on the reaction in Haworth to Leyland’s monument (for Thomas Andrews), and asks that L...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/05

22 July 1843

Letter to Leyland discussing Brontë’s debts with Mr Watson Nicholson, proprietor of the Old Cock, Halifax, and with Mrs Sugden of the Talbot, Halifax, and his hopes for settling the debts through a...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/06

4 August 1845

Letter to Leyland enquiring on behalf of John Brown, whether Leyland will be visiting Haworth during the following week. The letter also discusses the poor state of Brontë’s mental health during hi...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/07

19 August 1845

Letter to Leyland discussing payment for a monument which Leyland will receive from John Brown on behalf of the commissioning parties. Also comments on the poor state of his own affairs.

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/08

10 September 1845

Letter to Leyland commenting on Brontë’s disappointment that Leyland was unable to visit Haworth, and his hopes he will be able to visit soon. Also contains a detailed discussion of a three-volume ...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/09

25 November 1845

Letter to Leyland regarding publishing his poem Penmaenmawr in the Halifax Guardian [presumably under Brontë’s own name rather than his pseudonym Northangerland], in an attempt to contact Mrs Robin...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/10

28 April 1846

Letter to Leyland containing a series of research questions in preparation for writing an epic poem on Morley Hall, Leigh, ancestral home of the Leyland family. Letter also refers to Leyland’s medal...

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BC MS 19c Brontë/02/01/11

June 1846

Letter to Leyland explaining why Brontë has not yet sent him his epic poem on ‘Morley Hall’ and commenting on his distressed mental state following a visit from Mrs Robinson’s coachman informin...