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Ashley MS 2452
- Record Id:
- 040-001979220
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001448.0x00011c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 2452
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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Letters (5) from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams and Ellen Nussey; 1848-1854. For a further letter to Williams see 164, and to Miss Nussey see 168. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 76-77. As follows:―
1. Letter to W. S. Williams, chiefly concerned with Emily Brontë''s last illness and the review of the works of Acton, Ellis and Currer Bell in the North American Review; 22 Nov. 1848. Signed ''Currer Bell''. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, The Brontës; Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, 1932, ii, p. 287. ff. 4-5b.
2. Letter to Ellen Nussey, describing the death of Branwell Brontë; 9 Oct. 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, etc., ii, p. 264. ff. 9-10b.
3. Letter to W. S. Williams, written after the death of Emily Brontë; 25 Dec. 1848. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, etc., ii, pp. 294-295. ff. 13-14.
4. Letter to W. S. Williams, describing the death of Anne Brontë; 4 June 1849. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, etc., ii, pp. 337-338. ff. 16-17.
5. Letter to Ellen Nussey, describing a walk on the moors with her husband, and discussing the possibility of Sutcliffe Sowden being given the living of the new church at Padiham by Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth; 29 Nov. 1854. Printed in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, etc., iv, p. 162. ff. 20-21b.
Bound up with the letters is a copy of Wise''s privately printed Letters recounting the deaths of Emily Anne and Branwell Brontë, 1913 (ff. 1-3, 6-8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 23), part of the galley proof containing the description of the letters printed in Wise''s Ashley Catalogue (f. ii), and a leaf containing pp. 23 and 24 of Maggs'' catalogue listing a letter from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams dated 17 Nov. 1849 (f. iii).
Quarto; ff. iii+23.
includes:
- ff. 4-5b Emily Jane Brontë, author: Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers: Letter to W. S. Williams from Charlotte Brontë rel. to last illness of Emily Jane Brontë: 1848.
- ff. 9-10b Charlotte Brontë, author: Ellen Nussey, friend of C Brontë: Patrick Branwell Brontë, brother of Charlotte Brontë: Letter to Ellen Nussey from Charlotte Brontë rel. to death of Patrick Branwell Brontë: 1848.
- ff. 13-14 Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers: Letter rel. to death of E. J. Brontë to W. S. Williams from Charlotte Brontë: 1848.
- ff. 16-17 Charlotte Brontë, author: W. S. Williams, reader at Smith and Elder, publishers: Letters rel. to death of A. Brontë to W. S. Williams from Charlotte Brontë: 1849.
- ff. 20-21b Charlotte Brontë, author: Ellen Nussey, friend of C Brontë: Letter to Ellen Nussey from Charlotte Brontë: 1854.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979220 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS 2452 : Letters (5) from Charlotte Brontë to W. S. Williams and Ellen Nussey; 1848-1854. For a further letter to Williams see 164, and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0582]/040-001979220
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1848
- End Date:
- 1854
- Date Range:
- 1848-1854
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Brontë, Charlotte, author, 1816-1855
Brontë, Emily Jane, author, 1818-1848
Brontë, Patrick Branwell, brother of Charlotte Brontë
Nussey, Ellen, friend of C Brontë
Williams, W S, reader at Smith and Elder publishers