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Seven leaves from a notebook containing personal notes, verse and several rubbed and indecipherable pages
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Seven leaves from a notebook containing personal notes, verse and several rubbed and indecipherable pages

c.1841 - 1843

The first poem begins, "While holy Wheelhouse far above..." Holy Wheelhouse was the name Branwell Brontë gave to his physician, Dr Bateman John Wheelhouse.

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The Shepherd's Chief Mourner', with doodles and notes
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The Shepherd's Chief Mourner' with sketches and notes

1834 - 1843

Single page, torn from a notebook. Recto shows manuscript poem titled 'The Shepherd's Chief Mourner', verso shows loose notes, sketches and accounts. Written in pencil. Part of a group of manuscript...

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Personal note with rough drawings
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Personal note with rough drawings

c1841

Single page taken from a notebook. Recto of first page is blank, verso contains doodles and a short note mentioning quarrels Brontë almost had the night previously with James Titterington and George...

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Thorp Green
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Thorp Green

30 March 1843

Single page torn from notebook containing manuscript draft of poem titled 'Thorp Green' The upper half is written in ink and the lower half is written in pencil. Part of a group of manuscripts (BC M...

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When first old Time with me shook hands...' with personal notes
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When first old Time with me shook hands...' with personal notes

c1841

Single page torn from notebook. Recto begins with one stanza of four lines titled 'When First old Time with me shook hands'. 'Blackwoods Magazine' is written about the stanza. Remainder of recto and v...

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I see thy fair hair streaming in the wind...
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'I see thy fair hair streaming in the wind...'

c1843

Single page torn from notebook. Manuscript draft of poem beginning 'I see thy fair hair streaming in the wind' covers both sides of page. Written in pencil. Note by C W Harrison suggests that this is ...

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'Brearley Hill', with doodles and notes
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'Oh Thou whose beams were most withdrawn' poem, notes and doodles

8 August 1841

Two loose pages kept together. Recto of first page contains notes and sketches, verso contains some notes, sketches and a poem beginning 'Oh Thou whose beams were most withdrawn'. Poem is continued on...

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Letter to Mrs Gore
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Letter from Charlotte Brontë to Mrs Gore

28 June c.1851

Letter begins, "My Dear Mrs Gore, Your note reached me when I was on the point of leaving Town and had not time to reply to it; I now beg to acknowledge its receipt..." Letter discusses the hope of be...

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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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