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Brotherton Collection164
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english literature1
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Patrick Branwell Bronte23
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)7
Currer Bell7
Bronte, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848)2
Nussey, Ellen (1817-1897)2
Bronte Family1
Bronte, Maria (1783-1821)1
Hatfield, C W1
Hatfield, C. W1
J. Alex Symington1

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Archive Collection

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...

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Brontë Manuscripts' notebook
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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...

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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...

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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...

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Maria Brontë letter and manuscript 'The Advantages of Poverty in Religious Concerns
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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 ...

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Letter from Patrick Brontë to Sir James Kay Shuttleworth written shortly before Charlotte's death
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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.

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Ellen Nussey Brontëana
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Ellen Nussey letters and manuscripts

c1855 - c1896

Letters, mainly by Ellen Nussey, and manuscripts of hers concerning Emily Brontë

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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...

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'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 '...

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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...

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Letters of A. B. Nicholls to Ellen Nussey
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'Letters of A. B. Nicholls to Ellen Nussey'

1855-1858

Nine autograph letters from A. B. Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, bound together.

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