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Brontë family manuscripts and correspondence
Brontë Family
1812-1925
A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...
Brontë Manuscript notebook
c1847 - 1860
Notebook containing untitled text attributed to Anne Brontë. The text is a discussion on the truth of the Bible, between two speakers 'S' and 'C'. One is a sceptic, the other a believer who justifies...
Branwell Brontë
1830 - 1848
Manuscripts and letters created by Patrick Branwell Brontë (known as Branwell). The only son of Patrick and Maria Brontë, Branwell was bother to Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The manuscripts and lett...
Charlotte Brontë
1842 - 1984
Manuscripts, letters and associated material written by Charlotte Brontë. This series also includes substantial correspondence written after her death by friends and associates, and latterly concerni...
Maria Brontë letter and manuscript 'The Advantages of Poverty in Religious Concerns
c1800 - 1821
Manuscript and letter addressed to Patrick Brontë. Bound together with typescript transcriptions. The original binding, now vacated, contains a printed title page, also bearing Clement Shorters name ...
Letter from Patrick Brontë to Sir James Kay Shuttleworth written shortly before Charlotte's death
3 February 1855
Addressed from 'Haworth'. The letter is kept together with a brief, handwritten synopsis, and a letter from Professor Frank Smith detailing the accession to Special Collections.
Ellen Nussey letters and manuscripts
c1855 - c1896
Letters, mainly by Ellen Nussey, and manuscripts of hers concerning Emily Brontë
George Smith Letters to Clement Shorter
c.1895-1916
Twenty-nine letters and associated material from the publishing firm Smith, Elder & Co. to Clement King Shorter. Includes letters concerning the publication of an edition of Mrs Gaskell's 'Life of Cha...
'The Outcast Mother' Emily Brontë poem proofs
Apr 1860
Three page proofs of a poem by Emily Brontë, 'The Outcast Mother' (more correctly titled 'A Farewell to Alexandria'). Proofs from the posthumous publication in The Cornhill Magazine, dated in print '...
Letters from Branwell Brontë to various correspondents
1842 - 1848
Letters written by Branwell Brontë and addressed to various correspondents. 21 letters are addressed to Joseph Bentley Leyland, with one address to Francis Grundy, one to John Brown, and a further le...
'Letters of A. B. Nicholls to Ellen Nussey'
1855-1858
Nine autograph letters from A. B. Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, bound together.