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Total number of records: 20
Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn | 20 |
| Nussey, Ellen | 3 |
| Forster, John | 2 |
| Winkworth, Catherine | 2 |
| Nightingale, Florence | 1 |
| Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Dean of Westminster | 1 |
| Shaen, Ann A. | 1 |
| Howitt, Mary | 1 |
| Shaen, Ann, Miss & Winkworth, Catharine, Miss & Shaen, William, Mrs (Emily Winkworth) | 1 |
| Shaen, Mrs William | 1 |
Sender: Dickens, Charles
Recipient: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Letters: 1
Date(s): 6 Oct 1850
Location: BC MS 19c Dickens.
Note: As described in the manuscript catalogue by Dr. Eric G. Millar, kept with the letters.
Sender: Nussey, Ellen
Recipient: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Letters: 1
Date(s): [1855?]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte, C14, no 12
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: She will be glad to learn whether her correspondence will be helpful to [Mrs Gaskell] in furnishing material for a much needed biography of Charlotte Brontë, for which she is willing to supply any information in her power. 2-page original, wanting beginning and end, bound with transcript.
Sender: Nussey, Ellen
Recipient: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Nov [1855]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte, C14, no.7
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: On the death of Anne Brontë. 4-page original, bound with transcript. Unsigned; dated [1855] in Shakespeare Head Brontë Letters, vol.4, p.196.
Sender: Nussey, Ellen
Recipient: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Letters: 1
Date(s): [Jul 1856]
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte, C14, no.8
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: On the Hegers, Charlotte Brontë's correspondence with M. Heger, and [Arthur Bell] Nicholls - she hopes Mrs. Gaskell may win his confidence regarding her proposed biography of his wife. 4-page original (partially crossed) bound with transcript. Dated [July 1856] in Shakespeare Head Brontë, Letters, vol.4, p. 204
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Forster, John
Letters: 2
Date(s): 8 Oct 1849 - 28 Nov 1849
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 11, in volume lettered "Two Autograph Letters from Mrs E.C. Gaskell to John Forster"
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: Two autograph letters plus typescript copies of three others. Asks Forster to beg Tennyson to send a copy of his works to Samuel Bamford, the Lancashire poet; thanks for the copy of Tennyson and her own pleasure in his works. Letter of 7 Dec 1849: humorous description of Bamford receiving the Tennyson poems; desire for criticism of her latest novel, her series of articles for "All the Year Round", on Madame de Sevigne and a request to see Miss Kavanagh's book on the same subject. Undated letter: acknowledgement of reviews.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Forster, John
Letters: 20
Date(s): 19 Feb 1851 - 18 Apr 1854
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 11, in volume lettered "Two Autograph Letters from Mrs E.C. Gaskell to John Forster"
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Typescript copies of 20 extracts from letters.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: "My dearest Fanny"
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1846
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 18
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: On her daughters' governess Miss Fergusson. Not in the 1966 edition of Gaskell's letters.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Howitt, Mary
Letters: 1
Date(s): [18 Aug 1838]
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 4, bound in volume lettered "Clopton Hall. Mrs E. C. Gaskell. 1840"
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: Typescript copy only. Advice about places near Stratford-on-Avon to see; Cheshire customs and superstitions.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Shaen, Ann A.
Letters: 1
Date(s): Dec 1849
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 9, in volume lettered "Mrs E.C. Gaskell, Letter on Charlotte Brontë. 1849-1856"
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: Description of Harrriet Martineau's first meeting with "Currer Bell", and personal affairs.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Shaen, Ann, Miss & Winkworth, Catharine, Miss & Shaen, William, Mrs (Emily Winkworth)
Letters: 3
Date(s): 21 Dec 1849 - 8 Sep 1850
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 9
Category: 19c1 Female
Note: Building a new house, first meeting of Harriet Martineau with Charlotte Brontë; spending a week with Charlotte Brontë at Low-wood, lengthy description of her, Lady Kay Shuttleworth's of the Parsonage at Haworth; the great quantity of things brought away from Haworth by Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, including "whole heap of those minute writings".
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Shaen, Mrs William
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Sep 1856
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 9, in volume lettered "Mrs E.C. Gaskell, Letter on Charlotte Brontë. 1849-1856"
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Brief outline of a fragment of a novel by Charlotte Brontë; the publication of "The Professor"; her work on the "Life of Charlotte Brontë"; personal affairs.
Sender: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Recipient: Winkworth, Catherine
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Aug 1850
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 9, in volume lettered "Mrs E.C. Gaskell, Letter on Charlotte Brontë. 1849-1856."
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Account of her meeting with Charlotte Brontë at Windermere with some interesting details of the life of the Brontë family.