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Total number of records: 5
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 May 1883
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 115 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Opinion of Mary Robinson's "Emily Brontë": she dwells overmuch on Branwell Brontë. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 May 1882
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 114 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Emily Brontë born at Thornton, near Bradford: if Miss Nussey can supply the vicar's name, he will write for details of birth from parish register there. Proposed wording for Brontë memorial tablet. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 10
Date(s): 29 Nov 1884 - 22 May 1887
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 116-125 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Mainly on Miss Nussey's letters from Charlotte Brontë. (121) on Francis Leyland's "The Brontë Family" and his views on Branwell Brontë as author of "Wuthering Heights"; (123) fortunate that Charlotte Brontë asserted Emily's authorship. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Apr 1892
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, no. 127 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: Has just been reading Charlotte Brontë's delightful letters, "brimful ... of humour and fun". A pity Miss Nussey has no similar ones from Emily - would she search for any? He has become a Darwinite. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Sender: Biddell, Sidney
Recipient: Nussey, Ellen
Letters: 2
Date(s): 27 Mar 1882; 18 Apr 1882
Location: BC MS 19c Bronte C13, nos. 112-3 in volume lettered "The Correspondents to Miss E. Nussey Relating to Charlotte Brontë"
Note: The first letter is about Mary Robinson's projected life of Emily Brontë suggests Miss Nussey records all her memories of the Brontë sister's daily lives; plans for brass memorial tablet in Haworth church; second letter is about her Brontë letters received; has replied to Mary Robinson's letter. Typed transcript: original at Brontë Parsonage Museum.