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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 ...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.
'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...
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...
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...