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Brotherton Collection153
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Patrick Branwell Bronte23
Currer Bell5
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)5
Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)1
Nussey, Ellen (1817-1897)1
Maria Branwell1
Bronte, Maria (1783-1821)1

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Brontë Manuscripts' notebook
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Brontë Manuscript notebook

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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Letter accompanied by a pen and ink sketch of a grave stone inscribed with the word 'Resurgam'; addressed from 'Haworth nr Bradford'.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth nr Bradford'; letter bearing broken seal, Bradford and Halifax post marks and penny postage stamp
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth nr Bradford, Yorks'; letter bearing broken seal, Bradford and Halifax post marks and penny postage stamp
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth nr Bradford'.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter to John Brown
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth'.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'; letter bearing remains of seal, Bradford and Halifax post marks and penny postage stamp
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth'; with pen and ink sketch entitled
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'; with pen and ink sketch entitled 'Our Lady of Grief'
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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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Letter with pen and ink sketch entitled 'Myself'.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

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...

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Letter.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

c. June - July 1846

Letter to Leyland commenting on a letter Brontë has received from the medical practitioner who attended Mr Robinson in his final illness. Discusses Mrs Robinson’s continuing affection for Brontë, ...

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Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'; letter bearing signs of seal and two post marks, Haworth and Halifax
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

2 July 1846

Letter to Leyland enquiring on behalf of his sisters about whether a framed plaster relief portrait of Brontë in Leyland’s studio is a duplicate, and whether it can be obtained by the Brontës and ...

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Letter illustrated with various pen and ink sketches.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

October 1846

Letter to Leyland discussing some work John Brown is going to undertake for Leyland, and implying [through classical and biblical allusion] that Brown has recently been on a trip away involving heavy ...

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Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'; letter bearing broken seal; illustrated with a pen and ink sketch of a cross bearing the word 'Pobre'
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

c. 1847

Letter to Leyland enquiring whether the accompanying fragment could be published, e.g. in Blackwood's Magazine [fragment was not deposited with archive, whereabouts unknown]. The letter is illustr...

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Letter illustrated with various pen and ink sketches.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

c. January 1847

Letter to Leyland commenting on his hopes of settling his debt with Mr Watson Nicholson, proprietor of the Old Cock, Halifax.

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'Northangerland' pen and ink sketch
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'Northangerland' pen and ink sketch

c1847

Pen and ink sketch of a man, titled 'Northangerland', with 'Alexander Percy' written across the bottom and 'John Brown' [possibly in another hand] on left hand side, and ‘Joseph Leyland’ on the ri...

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Letter bearing sign of seal.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

24 January 1847

Letter to Leyland commenting upon a returned, unopened letter Brontë had sent to Mrs Robinson, and his destituteness following the realisation that his hopes of marrying her were unfounded. In the re...

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Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

16 July 1847

Letter to Leyland encouraging him to visit Haworth, and commenting on Brontë’s attempt to better look after himself following a fit and heart palpitations. Also discusses his depressed state and in...

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Letter signed 'Northangerland'.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

c. 1848

Letter to Leyland begging him to visit Brontë at the Old Cock in Halifax. The letter comments on Brontë’s own futile attempts at searching for Leyland earlier in the evening, and his fear the bea...

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Letter illustrated with two pen and ink sketches.
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

January 1848

Letter to Leyland wishing him a happy new year; discussing Brontë’s conduct at his last meeting with Leyland at the Talbot Inn in Halifax the previous week, and requesting that Leyland return a man...

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Letter addressed from 'Haworth near Bradford'
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Francis Henry Grundy

22 May 1846

Letter to an Francis Henry Grundy commenting on Brontë’s drinking habits, ill health, depression, and recovery. Letter also discusses his quiet life at the Parsonage in contrast to his poor behavio...

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Letter to a Mr Grundy commenting upon his illness and his affair with Mrs Gisbourne. Addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'
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Letter from Branwell Brontë to Francis Henry Grundy

c.1848

Letter to Francis Henry Grundy following a silence of nearly three years, commenting upon his ill-health, and his affair with Mrs Lydia Robinson (née Gisbourne). Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradf...

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