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End of the Angrian revolution
c.1836-7
Two sheet fragments, untitled and undated, concerning the end of the Angrian revolution. 12th in a group of thirteen individual manuscripts (BC MS 19c Brontë/02/02/10 - 22) mostly written about the ...
Death of Mary, wife of Northangerland
c.1834 - 5
13th in a group of thirteen individual manuscripts (BC MS 19c Brontë/02/02/10 - 22) mostly written about the imaginary kingdom of Angria. Note dated 15/11/1925 by C W Harrison reads: 'MS fragmen...
Southey's Peninsula War
c1830 - c1848
Two sheets of manuscript notes written on one leaf, presumably on the first volume of 'The History of the Peninsular War' by Robert Southey.
Seven leaves from a notebook containing personal notes, verse and several rubbed and indecipherable pages
c.1841 - 1843
The first poem begins, "While holy Wheelhouse far above..." Holy Wheelhouse was the name Branwell Brontë gave to his physician, Dr Bateman John Wheelhouse.
The Shepherd's Chief Mourner' with sketches and notes
1834 - 1843
Single page, torn from a notebook. Recto shows manuscript poem titled 'The Shepherd's Chief Mourner', verso shows loose notes, sketches and accounts. Written in pencil. Part of a group of manuscript...
Personal note with rough drawings
c1841
Single page taken from a notebook. Recto of first page is blank, verso contains doodles and a short note mentioning quarrels Brontë almost had the night previously with James Titterington and George...
'Oh Thou whose beams were most withdrawn' poem, notes and doodles
8 August 1841
Two loose pages kept together. Recto of first page contains notes and sketches, verso contains some notes, sketches and a poem beginning 'Oh Thou whose beams were most withdrawn'. Poem is continued on...
When first old Time with me shook hands...' with personal notes
c1841
Single page torn from notebook. Recto begins with one stanza of four lines titled 'When First old Time with me shook hands'. 'Blackwoods Magazine' is written about the stanza. Remainder of recto and v...
Thorp Green
30 March 1843
Single page torn from notebook containing manuscript draft of poem titled 'Thorp Green' The upper half is written in ink and the lower half is written in pencil. Part of a group of manuscripts (BC M...
'I see thy fair hair streaming in the wind...'
c1843
Single page torn from notebook. Manuscript draft of poem beginning 'I see thy fair hair streaming in the wind' covers both sides of page. Written in pencil. Note by C W Harrison suggests that this is ...
Poem beginning 'Might rough rocks find 'neath calmest sea...
c.1847
Partial manuscript draft of a poem beginning 'Might rough rocks find neath calmest sea.' (This appears to be the final line of a previous stanza). Appears to be the lower half of a larger page.