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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Ashley MS A17-5768 Name Brontë, Charlotte, author, 1816-1855 Level [40] File

1. Ashley MS 156

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Ashley MS 156
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''The Search after Hapiness'' (sic): a tale written at the age of thirteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy with many revisions and deletions, written on both sides of seven irregularly sized (average 60 x 90mm.) leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth. Waterm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

2. Ashley MS 157

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Ashley MS 157
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''Blackwoods Young Men''s Magazine'' (First Series, No. 6): a miniature magazine written by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine irregularly sized (average 35 x 50mm.) leaves of white wo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

3. Ashley MS 158

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Ashley MS 158
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''Matin'' and ''Vesper'': two poems written at the age of fourteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1830. Autograph fair copies with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of a leaf 93 x 57mm. of white wove paper. No watermark. The present MS. originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 item

4. Ashley MS 159

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Ashley MS 159
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''The Foundling'' by Charlotte Brontë
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''The foundling'': a tale written at the age of seventeen by Charlotte Brontë; 1833. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white laid paper. No watermark. The leaves have been bound by Charlotte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 item

5. Ashley MS 160

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Ashley MS 160
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French Exercises: translations into French by Charlotte Brontë; 1842?. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of the sixteen leaves of a quarto notebook. Ruled cream wove paper, without water-mark. The translations, four of prose passages and five of poems, we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842?
Extent:
1 item

6. Ashley MS 161

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Ashley MS 161
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to her brother Branwell, written from Brussels; 1 May 1843. Printed, not entirely accurately, in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. i, pp. 296-298. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 71-72. Octavo; ff. ii+2. Charlotte Brontë, author: Patrick Bran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1843
Extent:
1 item

7. Ashley MS 164

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Ashley MS 164
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers; [September?] 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. ii, pp. 254-256. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 71-72. Octavo; ff. ii+3. Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, read...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

8. Ashley MS 166

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Ashley MS 166
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers; 20 April 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. ii, pp. 203, 204. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 73. Octavo; ff. ii+2. Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, reader at S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1848
Extent:
1 item

9. Ashley MS 167

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Ashley MS 167
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to her father, the Rev. Patrick Brontë; 14 June 1851. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. iii, pp. 246-247. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 73-74. Octavo; ff. iii+2. Charlotte Brontë, author: Reverend Patrick Brontë, author; Curate o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1851
Extent:
1 item

10. Ashley MS 168

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Ashley MS 168
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey; 14 Nov. 1854. The letter is signed 'C. B. Nicholls', and is printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Life and Letters, vol. iv, pp. 158-159. For other letters from Charlotte to Miss Nussey see 2452. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 57. Octavo; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1854
Extent:
1 item