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Branwell Bronte letter fragment
Explore the Brotherton Collection of letters written by Branwell Brontë.
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Branwell Bronte - Myself crop
University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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Page 3, Branwell Brontë, Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'; with pen and ink sketch entitled 'Our Lady of Grief'
Short biographies of Branwell Bronte's correspondents. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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Branwell Bronte – Alas! Poor Caunt!
Short biography of Branwell's life over the period of Letters from 1842-1848. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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Pen and Ink Sketch by Branwell
Description of Branwell's Artwork in his letters from 1842-1848. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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Branwell Bronte - Paradise and Purgatory drawing
Description of Branwell's Artwork in his letters from 1842-1848. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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Page 2, Branwell Brontë, letter to Joseph Bentley Leyland
Description of Branwell's Artwork in his letters from 1842-1848. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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Portrait of Joseph Bentley Leyland
Description of Branwell's Artwork in his letters from 1842-1848. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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Branwell Bronte - John Brown letter
Description of Branwell's Artwork in his letters from 1842-1848. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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Letter accompanied by a pen and ink sketch of a grave stone inscribed with the word 'Resurgam'; addressed from 'Haworth nr Bradford'.
University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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Letter addressed from 'Haworth nr Bradford'; letter bearing broken seal, Bradford and Halifax post marks and penny postage stamp
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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Letter addressed from 'Haworth, Bradford, Yorks'; letter bearing remains of seal, Bradford and Halifax post marks and penny postage stamp
University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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'Northangerland' pen and ink sketch
University of Leeds Library Special Collections, Letters from Branwell Brontë
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Letter signed 'Northangerland'.
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Bibiography and relevant literature for the Bronte and Leyland Manuscripts. Part of the Brontë collection at the University of Leeds Special Collections.
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• Alexander, Christine and Jane Sellars, The Art of the Brontës, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• Alexander, Christine and Margaret Smith, The Oxford Companion to the Brontës, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Barker, Juliet, The Brontës (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1994)
• Grundy, Francis Henry, Pictures of the Past (London: Griffith and Faran, 1879)
• Gunnis, Robert, Dictionary of British sculptors, 1660–1851 (London: The Abbey Library, 1953)
• Leyland, Mary, 'The Leyland family', Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society 29–48 (1954),
• Neufeldt, Victor, A bibliography of the manuscripts of Patrick Branwell Brontë (1993)
• Neufeldt, Victor, The poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë (London: Routledge, 1990)
The works of Patrick Branwell Brontë, ed. V. A. Neufeldt, 2 vols. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1997–9)
• Charlotte Brontë: 'Captain Henry Hastings' in Five Novelettes, ed. by Winifred Gerin (London: The Folio Press, 1971), pp. 171-270, p. 252.
•Christopher Heywood, '"Alas! Poor Caunt": Branwell’s Emancipationist Cartoon', Brontë Society Transactions, 21:5, 177-185
• Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (London: Penguin, 1857 / 1975)
• Martin Greenwood, 'Leyland, Joseph Bentley (1811-1851)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed. accessed 25 March 2017.