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Nussey, Ellen47
Biddell, Sidney7
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn3
Stuart, John Alexander Erskine2
Smith, George Murray2
Shorter, Clement King2
Birrell, Augustine2
Wright, William2
Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances1
Robinson, Mary E.1

Sender: Bailey, M., Canon

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 3

Date(s): 15 Apr 1887 - 6 May 1887

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 97-99 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: On his attempts to disprove that Mr Roberton was the original Revd Melstone in "Shirley". News of Mrs Henry Browne. Typed transcripts: originals at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Biddell, Sidney

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 Nov [1881?]

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.110 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Returning six letters from Charlotte Brontë, and suggesting she brings out a volume of letters from herself, which he would arrange; this might prevent [Alpheus] Wilkes from producing a garbled version. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Biddell, Sidney

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 28 Feb 1881

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.111 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: On provision of a Brontë memorial in Haworth church, etc. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Biddell, Sidney

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 3 May 1882

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 114 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Emily Brontë born at Thornton, near Bradford: if Miss Nussey can supply the vicar's name, he will write for details of birth from parish register there. Proposed wording for Brontë memorial tablet. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Biddell, Sidney

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 15 May 1883

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 115 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Opinion of Mary Robinson's "Emily Brontë": she dwells overmuch on Branwell Brontë. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Biddell, Sidney

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 10

Date(s): 29 Nov 1884 - 22 May 1887

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 116-125 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Mainly on Miss Nussey's letters from Charlotte Brontë. (121) on Francis Leyland's "The Brontë Family" and his views on Branwell Brontë as author of "Wuthering Heights"; (123) fortunate that Charlotte Brontë asserted Emily's authorship. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Biddell, Sidney

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 30 Aug 1891

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 126 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Acknowledging letter. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Biddell, Sidney

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 20 Apr 1892

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 127 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Has just been reading Charlotte Brontë's delightful letters, "brimful ... of humour and fun". A pity Miss Nussey has no similar ones from Emily - would she search for any? He has become a Darwinite. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Bigelow, John

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Mar 1870

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 71 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Has told Scribner's that he cannot edit her Charlotte Brontë correspondence for them, as he now finds that all the interesting material has already been published by Mrs Gaskell in her "Life". He cannot recommend a complete republication of the correspondence. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Birrell, Augustine

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Oct 1889

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 135 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: Has seen [Antony] Nussey and agreed a lawyer's letter should be sent to Horsfall Turner compelling him to return Miss Nussey's letters from Charlotte Brontë. She should publish them in the United States, through Scribner's. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Birrell, Augustine

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 6

Date(s): 7 Nov 1889 - 15 Jan 1890

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 137-142 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Note: On the publication of Charlotte Brontë's letters to Miss Nussey by Scribner's in the United States. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Sender: Brown, Jane E.

Recipient: Nussey, Ellen

Letters: 1

Date(s): 28 Oct 1881

Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no.77 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Family news; were the terms of her agreement with "Mr. W." ever written down? Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.