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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence
Brontë Family
1812-1925
A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...