GASKELL AND THE BRONTËS

Literary Manuscripts of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) and the Brontës from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Detailed Listing

The following notes are based on a physical examination of the material at the Brotherton Library prior to filming and a subsequent examination of the manuscripts on microfilm. For ease of reference I have allocated item numbers to both the Gaskell manuscripts (1-18) and the Brontë manuscripts (1-33).

Gaskell Mss

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1. Elizabeth Gaskell (henceforth ECG). Sylvia’s Lovers.
AMs. Loose sheets. In five packets. Mainly black ink on blue paper.
1- Directions to the Printer and Vol. 1 pp 47-104
2- Vol. 1 pp 105-192
3- Vol. 2 pp 11-111
4- Vol. 2 pp 112-166, 181-217
5- Vol. 3 pp 1-151 (up to Ch IX )
[NB Vol. 1 pp 1-46, v2 pp 1-10, 167-180 are missing and v3 pp152ff.]

2. (ECG). Autograph Album, 39ff.
Contains a fragment of Sylvia’s lovers.
Includes autographs of many leading Victorians. Significant figures include:-
Bailey, Philip John Verse f1
Gaskell, Rev. Wm. Letter f2
Dawson, George Letter f2
Gaskell, Elizabeth Ms excerpt f5 from Sylvia’s Lovers
Whittier, JG Verse f27
Clarkson, Thomas Letter f28
Wellington Letter f30
Garibaldi Letter f32
Mazzini Letter f33

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3. ECG. Diary dedicated to her daughter, Marianne. 10 Mar 1835 - 28 Oct 1838
“The Experience of (a Mother)” 40ff.

4. ECG. Clapton Hall. An article dated 1840 and 3 letters concerning the article:
1 A H Bullen to Clement K Shorter 19 Mar 1908
2 A H Bullen to Clement K Shorter 23 Mar 1908
3 William Howitt to ECG 1840

5. (ECG) Family Commonplace Book kept by Jane Adeane and family. c86ff.
An interesting collection of anecdotes, stories, limericks, extracts and supernatural tales:
ff2 Anecdote re the Duke of Wellington and the death of Marshall Ney, 1851
4 Extract of letter from ECG to Lady Hatherton, 27 Dec 1853
6 Charles Parry on Sylvia’s Lovers
6 Ghost Story
16 Description of Rotherfield Grey
18 Quaint rhymes by a lawyer (limericks)
20 Riddles
21 Alliterative poem
22 Rhyme
23 Extract from a letter by Lady Hatherton concerning The Poor Clare, a story by ECG in Household Words, Jan 1857.
25 Story of Mr Woodall
34 Thackeray Anecdote
35 Poem on the Four Gates by A P Stanley, Sep 1860
36v On Tyre
37 Frederick Barbarossa - letter from A P Stanley, Apr 1853
38 Southey extract
39 Sir Robert Phillimore on the Meaning of Intonation
41 Ancient Hymn
45 Excerpt from a diary found in an old book of receipts, c1794?
48 Lines written by Dean Milman
48v Macaulay anecdote (re his memory)
49v Riddle on a word of 12 letters by Lord Macaulay
51v Acrostic (on GLADSTONE) by Lord Derby
52v Rhymes based on the Queen of Hearts nursery rhyme
54 Ghost Story, 1896 (By Mrs Goodene?)
60v Ghost Story by Miss Hewett, June 1897
64v Indian Mutiny Ghost Story
66 The Figi Spider
ff67v Epitaphs
69 Miss Tindall’s account of new tombs discovered at Luxor.
69v Tomb of the ‘Princely Chandos’
70v Account of Whitchurch
71 The spirit of Edward ---- at Moore Abbey Island
76v A haunted house
77v Benson and Raymond - two Napoleons of crime
78 Anecdote re Benson
79 Prayer
80 Riddle
80v Lady Goodrich’s account of the Quuen of Scots’ pearls
81v Marcham Park near Abingdon
83 Verse by Blanche Airlie
83v Ghost Story
86 Predictions, numerology
+ envelope with letters and papers, chiefly concerning supernatural happenings associated with the book. c35ff.

6. (ECG). A Review by Emily Winkworth of `Mary Barton` by ECG
“This is a work of very uncommon merit”. 32ff

7. Transcripts of letters from ECG and her husband, Rev William Gaskell (WG), to Miss Eliza Gaskell (EG), followed by the originals:

1 WG to EG (his sister) nd
2 ECG to EG nd
3 WG to EG 16 Sep 1832
4 ECG to EG 16 Sep 1832
5 ECG to EG [Feb 1837]
6 ECG to EG 30 Mar 1838
7 ECG to EG [July 1838]
8 ECG to EG nd

8. Transcripts of letters from ECG to her Sister-in-Law, Mrs Nancy Robson (NR), followed by the originals:
1 ECG to NR nd
2 ECG to NR 1859
3 Julia B Gaskell to NR (her Aunt) nd
4 ECG to NR 2 Jan 1865
5 ECG to NR 10 Jan 1865
6 ECG to NR nd
7 ECG to NR nd

9. Transcripts of letters from ECG to Ann Shaen, Catherine Winkworth and
Mrs. William Shaen concerning Charlotte Brontë. Followed by the original letters.
1 ECG to Miss Ann A Shaen 21 Dec 1849
(contains an account of Harriet Martineau’s introduction to Currer Bell)
2 ECG to Catharine Winkworth 25 Aug 1850
3 ECG to Mrs William Shaen [8 Sep 1856]
(concerns Haworth)

Extract from first letter:

“… Have you heard that Harriet Martineau has sworn an eternal friendship with the author of Shirley, if not I’ll tell you. She sent Shirley to Harriet Martineau. H.M. acknowledged it in a note directed to Currer Bell Esq. - but inside written to a lady. Then came an answer requesting a personal interview. This was towards or about last Saturday week, and the time appointed was 6 o’clock on Sunday Even[in]g and the place appointed was at Richard Martineau’s (married a Miss Needham) in Hyde Park Square, so Mr & Mrs R. Martineau and Harriet M. sat with early tea before them, awaiting six o’clock, & their mysterious visitor, when lo! and behold, as the clock struck in walked a little, very little, bright haired sprite, looking not above 15, very unsophisticated, neat & tidy. She sat down & had tea with them, her name being still unknown; she said to H.M. ‘What do you really think of Jane Eyre’? H.M. I thought it a first rate book. Whereupon the little sprite went red all over with pleasure. After tea, Mr & Mrs R. M. withdrew, and left sprite to a 2 hours tête a tête with H.M. to whom she revealed her name & the history of her life. Her father a Yorkshire clergyman who has never slept out of his house for 26 years; she has lived a most retired life; - her first visit to London, never been in society and many other particulars which H.M is not at liberty to divulge any more than her name, which she keeps a profound secret; but Thackeray does not. H.M. is charmed with her; she is full of life and power &c. &c. & H.M. hopes to be of great use to her. There! that’s all I know, but I think it’s a pretty good deal, it’s something to have seen somebody who has seen nominis umbra. …”

10. Transcript of letter from Frederika Bremer (Swedish novelist) to ECG, followed by the original letter.
1 Frederika Bremer to ECG 29 Sep 1853

Extract (part way through letter):

“… The situation of women, the great wants in her education and prospects are one of the greatest questions to be solved by society; and though it may be shut up or shut out of the eyes of people in cloisters and convents for a time, it will come out and come up again and again till men will have to look at it, as now they must try to prevent the miasmas who make the cholera come on. The prostitutes in the lower classes, the miserable street walkers, and in the upper ones the giddy and vacant souls or the sickly and sour are, I am sure of it, the greater part products of the present state of society with regard to women’s education and prospects or rather want of both.
Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may call you so, give me your hand in sympathy and in work for the oppressed or neglected of our own sex. And may the kind and strong-minded English woman look at the question in her country where all sound questions culminate and are put to their highest pit, - and from the height of the evils judge better than I the means of remedy. I shall remain quietly in Sweden so long as my dear mother wants me, then I shall if possible, go and take a peep at Russia if only for the sake of the contrast with America and its life. …”

11. Transcripts of letters from ECG to John Forster (JF), friend and biographer of Dickens. Followed by the original letters. One regarding the Sam Bamford, begging Tennyson to send a copy of his poems to the poor, aged poet. Most relate to ECG’s novels, of which Forster was a helpful critic and sounding board.

1 ECG to JF [8 Oct 1849]
2 ECG to JF [28 Nov 1849]
3 ECG to (JF) 7 Dec 1849
4 ECG to ? c18--
5 ECG to ? nd
6 JF to ECG (extract) 19 Feb 1851
7 JF to ECG (extract) 7 Dec 1851
8 JF to ECG (extract) 8 Dec 1851
9 JF to ECG (extract) 1 Jan 1852
10 JF to ECG (extract) 13 Mar 1852
11 JF to ECG (extract) 16 Mar 1852
12 JF to ECG (extract) nd
13 JF to ECG (extract) 12 Nov 1852
14 JF to ECG (extract) 21 Dec 1852
15 JF to ECG (extract) 17 Jan 1853
16 JF to ECG (extract) 20 Jan 1853
17 JF to ECG (extract) nd
18 JF to ECG (extract) 9 Apr 1853
19 JF to ECG (extract) 5 Jul 1853
20 JF to ECG (extract) [1853]
21 JF to ECG (extract) 21 Nov 1853
22 JF to ECG (extract) 16 Jan 1854
23 JF to ECG (extract) 18 Apr 1854
24 JF to ECG (extract) nd
25 JF to ECG (extract) nd

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12. Transcripts of letters from ECG to her daughters followed by the original letters.

Marianne (Polly) (M) (b1834)
Margaret Emily (Meta) (ME) (b1837)
Florence Elizabeth (Flossy) (F) (b1842)
Julia Margaret Bradford (J) (b1846)
(Her son ‘Willie’ died of scarlet fever in August 1845)

1 ECG to Girls (M & ME) nd
2 ECG to Girls (M & ME) nd
3 ECG to Girls (M & ME) nd
4 ECG to Girls (M & ME) nd
5 ECG to Girls (M & ME) nd
6 ECG to Florence (F) nd
7 ECG to J nd
8 ECG to J nd
9 ECG to daughter (not F) nd
10 ECG to daughter (extract) nd
11 ECG to daughter (extract) nd
12 ECG to daughter (extract) nd
13 ME to Minnie nd
14 ME to M nd

13. Transcripts of letters from EGG to Marianne (later Mrs. Thurston Holland) Vol 1
Followed by the original letters.

1 ECG to M nd
2 ECG to M nd
3 ECG to M nd
4 ECG to M nd
5 ECG to M nd
6 ECG to M nd
7 ECG to M nd
8 ECG to M nd
9 ECG to M nd
10 ECG to M nd
11 ECG to M nd
12 ECG to M nd
13 ECG to M 10 Nov
14 ECG to M nd
15 ECG to M nd
16 ECG to M [25 Sep 1854]
17 ECG to M (extract) nd
18 ECG to M nd
19 ECG to M nd
20 ECG to M nd

14. Transcripts of letters from EGG to Marianne (later Mrs. Thurston Holland) Vol 2
Followed by the original letters.

1 ECG to M nd
2 ECG to M nd
3 ECG to M nd
4 ECG to M nd
5 ECG to M (fragment) nd
6 ECG to M nd
7 ECG to M nd
8 ECG to M nd
9 ECG to M (extract) nd
10 ECG to M nd
11 ECG to M (unfinished) nd
12 ECG to M 19 Oct
13 ECG to M nd
14 ECG to M nd
15 ECG to M (with telegram) 31 Jul 1860
16 ECG to M nd
17 ECG to M [25 May 1860]

15. Transcripts of letters from EGG to Marianne (later Mrs. Thurston Holland) Vol 3
Followed by the original letters.

1 ECG to M (incomplete) [24 Apr 1865]
2 ECG to M nd
3 ECG to M nd
4 ECG to M nd
5 ECG to M nd
6 ECG to M nd
7 ECG to M nd
8 ECG to M nd
9 ECG to M nd
10 ECG to M nd
11 ECG to M nd
12 ECG to M nd
13 ECG to M nd

14 ECG to M nd
15 ECG to M nd
16 ECG to M nd
17 Eliza Thorborrow to ECG 11 July and ECG to M nd
18 ECG to M nd
19 ECG to M nd
20 ECG to M nd
21 ECG to M nd

16. Transcripts of letters from Meta (ME) and Mrs. Thurston Holland (M) to Clement K. Shorter (CKS) relating to the life of their mother, ECG. Followed by the original letters.
1 ME to CKS nd
2 Mary Ann Lumb to Mrs [Hannah] Lumb 1 Nov 1811
(covering the adoption of ECG into the Lumb household in 1811 after the death of her mother, Elizabeth Stevenson, who was Hannah Lumb’s sister)
3 Mrs Stevenson to Mrs [Hannah] Lumb nd
(this is from William Stevenson’s second wife)
4 ME to CKS (incomplete) nd
5 ME to CKS 17 Mar 1908
6 ME to CKS 25 Nov 1909
7 ME to CKS 28 Apr
8 M to CKS 10 Dec
9 Tathan, Worthington& Co to CKS 21 Dec 1914

17. Transcripts of letters from EGG to Catherine Winkworth (CW) and from Miss Frances Parthenope Nightingale (FNP) to ECG relating to Florence Nightingale, followed by the original letters.
1 ECG to CW [15 Oct 1854]
2 FPN to ECG nd

18. ECG. Miscellaneous loose letters. All Als.

1 ECG to Fannny [Ferguson] [1846]
2 ECG to Amelia Strutt (Lady Belper) nd
3 ECG to Fanny Holland nd
4 ECG to Maria Otter James nd
5 ECG to Miss Rye 15 Sep
6 ECG to Florence Nightingale 31 Dec
7 ECG to Florence Nightingale 22 Jan 1862
8 ECG to Florence Nightingale 25 Apr 1862
9 ECG to Florence Nightingale 17 Sep 1863
10 ECG to Florence Nightingale Dec 1864
11 EC Stevenson to Harriet Carr 30 Aug 1839
12 EC Stevenson to Harriet Carr nd
13 EC Stevenson to Harriet Carr 6 Aug
14 EC Stevenson to Harriet Carr 20 Oct 1831
15 EC Stevenson to Harriet Carr 18 Jun 1831
16 ECG to ? nd

Excerpt from letter to Nightingale dated 25 April 1862:

“It will be a real pleasure to me if I can help in any way in providing you with women who would make suitable nurses. This is the very time of all others, when Manchester ought to furnish them readily and gratefully;...”

Brontë Mss

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1. Maria Brontë - The Advantages of Poverty in Religious Concerns.
Dark brown paper. Faded script. Covers + note + 6ff.

2. Charlotte Brontë (henceforth CB) - Poems written out and dated by her husband, Mr A B Nicholls. 60 pages in his hand. 19 poems.

From front 6ff Discussion of the truth of the Bible between S - and C -
(Attributed to Ann Brontë)
From back 1-4 Saul
4-5 Memory
6-8 St. John in the island of Patmos
9-19 The death of Darius Codomanus
19-21 ‘Tis the siesta’s languid hour
21-24 O! let me alone he said
25-26 The town besieged
26-28 But a recollection now
28-29 Oh would I were the golden light
29-30 Why should we ever mourne as those
31-36 Percy’s grave
36-38 Hurrah! For the Gemini
39-42 A single word, a magic spring
42-45 Review at Gazemba
46-48 When thou sleepest
49-52 Is this my tomb this humble store?
52-57 This ring of gold
58-59 She was alone that evening
60 I scarce would let that restless eye

Cover + 2 pages of pencil notes + 6ff (S & C), then, from back, 2 pages of notes + 60ff.

3. French exercise book used by CB in Brussells, 1842-1843.
[Light script on browned paper.] Cover + plate + title + 16pp.

4. CB. L’Immensité de Dieu. Written in French c1842-3.
Cover + plate + title + 6pp.

5. CB. A memento of her friendship with Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, her biographer comprising a letter from the author of Jane Eyre describing a visit paid to Mrs. Gaskell in 1851 on her return to Haworth after a visit to London, and an autograph manuscript from Mrs Gaskell giving a lengthy account of her visit to Charlotte Brontë at Haworth in September 1853.
Fine memorial volume created for Sir Edward Allen Brotherton
Cover + plate + title + 3ff intro + title + 3pp letter on board + 2ff transcript + title + 8pp Mss mounted on 4 boards + 10ff transcript.

Contains:

1 A letter from CB to Mrs Smith, mother of her publisher (Smith, Elder & Co)
dated 1 July 1851

Extract:

“She is a woman of many fine qualities and deserves the epithet which I find is generally applied to her - charming. Her family consists of four little girls - all more or less pretty and intelligent - these scattered throughout the rooms of a somewhat spacious house - seem to fill it with liveliness and gaiety.”

2 Elizabeth Gaskell. AMs describing her visit to Haworth, Sep 1853

Extracts:

“We turned up a narrow bye lane near the church - past the curate’s, the schools & skirting the pestiferous churchyard we arrived at the door into the Parsonage yard. In I went, - half blown back by the wild vehemence of the wind which swept along the narrow gravel walk - round the corner of the house into a small plot of grass, enclosed within a low stone wall, over which the more ambitious grave-stones towered all round.”

“Miss Brontë gave me the kindest welcome, & the room looked the perfection of warmth, snugness & comfort, crimson predominating in the furniture….”

“Before tea we had a long delicious walk right against the wind on Penistone Moor which stretches directly behind the Parsonage going over the hill in brown and purple sweeps and falling softly down into a little upland valley through which a ‘beck’ ran, & beyond again was another great waving hill, - and in the dip of that might be seen another yet more distant, & beyond that the said Lancashire came; but the sinuous hills seemed to girdle the world like the great Norse serpent, & for my part I don’t know if they don’t stretch up to the North Pole. On the moors we met no one. Here and there in the gloom of the distant hollows – with Scotch firs growing near them often, - & told me such wild tales of the ungovernable families who lived or had lived therein that Wuthering Heights seemed tame comparatively. Such dare-devil people, - men especially, - & women so stony and cruel in some of their feelings & so passionately fond in others. They are queer people up there.”

6. (Charlotte Brontë). Transcripts of a collection of autograph letters and notes from Ellen Nussey to various people. c1883 - 1895. Cover, note, 3pp index, title and c450ff .

A total of 216 letters to correspondents, including:

Ellen Nussey c1883-1895 letters 1-10; 46; 50; 52; 54
Alfred Hopps 1882 11-13
Mary Hewitt 1854 14-17
Charles Scribner & Sons 1890-1892 18-21
Mary Taylor c1842 22-24
Martha Taylor 1832-1842 25-26
Sophie Morrison 1877-1897 27-29, 78
Joseph Horsfall Turner 1883-1888 30-42
George Murray Smith 1857-1873 43-45; 47-49; 51; 53-59
Alpheus Wilkes 1878-1882 60-64
H Jackson (Rev?) 1835 65
Ellen Dennison [1854] 66
Edward Seymour [1870]? 67
Meta Gaskell 18-- 68
C Reynolds 1896 69
Henry Robinson 1837 70
John Bigelow 1870 71
Herbert Hardy 1872 72
Francis A Leyland 1883 73
Marie L Thompson 1897 74
Kezia Young 1897 75
George MacDonald 1882 76
Jane E Brown 1881 77
R Watson Gilder 1871-1872 79-82
A Mary Robinson 1882-1883 83-92
Butler Wood 1895 93-96
Canon H Bailey 1887 97-99
Antony F Nussey 1889 100-109
Sidney Biddell 1881-1892 110-127
Genevieve Wigfall 1889-1890 128; 130-132
F H Wigfall 1889 129
William Scruton 1885-1887 133-134
Augustine Birrell 1889-1890 135-142
Sir T Wemys Reid 1876-1896 143-167
J A Erskine Stuart 1887-1894 168-183
Dr William Wright 1891-1892 184-201; 203-216

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7. Letters of Charlotte Brontë (CB) to Miss Amelia Ringrose (AR), 1848-1851.
Another sumptuous volume, boxed and bound for Brotherton. Box lined with velvet.
Cover + plate + title + 33ff of letters (on boards) + back cover.

1 CB to AR 24 Dec ----
2 CB to AR 26 Feb 1848
3 CB to AR 5 Nov 1849
4 CB to AR nd
5 CB to AR nd
6 CB to AR 18 Mar 1850
7 CB to AR 31 Mar 1850
8 CB to AR 17 Jun 1851
9 CB to AR nd
10 CB (Nicholls) to AR nd
11 CB (Nicholls) to AR nd
12 CB (Nicholls) to AR nd

8. Five letters from CB and manuscript by Andrew Laing. W S Williams (WSW) was reader for Smith, Elder & Co.
1 CB to WSW 21 Aug 1849 (concerns change of title from Hollow’s Mill to Shirley)
2 CB to WSW 20 Nov 1849
(concerns author’s copies of Shirley and criticism of her works by Mrs Gaskell: “You said that if I wished for any copies of ’Shirley’ to be sent to individuals I was to name the parties. I have thought of one person to whom I should much like a copy to be offered - Harriet Martineau. For her character - as revealed in her works - I have a lively admiration - a deep esteem. ...
The letter you forwarded this morning was from Mrs Gaskell - authoress of ‘Mary Barton.’ She said I was not to answer it - but I cannot help doing so. Her note brought me tears to my eyes: she is good - she is a great woman - proud am I that I can touch a chord of sympathy in souls so noble. In Mrs Gaskell’s nature - it mournfully pleases me to fancy a remote affinity to my sister Emily….”
3 Currer Bell to Miss Alexander 18 Mar 1850
4 CB to G H Lewes 23 Nov 1850
5 CB to Ellen Nussey nd
6. Andrew Laing Ms (7pp) on the Brontë Myth (on Dr. Wright’s The Brontës in Ireland).

9. Two autograph letters from CB to Mrs. Shaen (Emily Winkworth) 1853

1 CB to Mrs Shaen 21 Nov 1853
2 CB to Mrs Shaen 25 Nov 1853

10. Nine letters from CB to Amelia Ringrose (AR) (3), WS Williams (WSW) (3?), Ellen Nussey, Laetitia Wheelwright, and Mrs. Gore.

1 CB to AR 11 June ----
2 CB to AR 6 Apr 1850
3 CB to WSW 6 Nov 1847
(Concerns G H Lewes - preparing to review Jane Eyre: “Can you give me any information respecting Mr. Lewes? What station he occupies in the literary world and what works he has written?” )
4 CB to WSW 9 Nov 1850
5 CB to AR nd
6 CB to Ellen (Nussey) 12 Aug 1852
7 CB to Laetitia (Wheelwright) [June 1852]
8 CB to Mrs Gore 28 June ----
9 CB to (WSW?) 9 Oct 1847

11. The Hartlepool letter. A contested letter from Currer Bell to Miss Ingledew ‘discovered’ by J Alexander Symington and published in The Microcosm.
Card + Plate + 3pp letter + 4pp transcript + The Microcosm Summer 1924 + clippings re letter (11ff).

12. Ellen Nussey (EN). Brontëana. A mixture of letters, manuscripts and transcripts. Contains:

1 EN to T J Wise 18 Nov 1892
2 Frederika Macdonald to Sir William Robertson Nicoll 26 Feb 1894
3 EN to CK Shorter 10 Apr 1895
4 EN to CK Shorter 25 Apr 1895
5 EN to CK Shorter 20 Oct 1895
6 EN to CK Shorter 22 Apr 1896
7 EN to Mrs. Gaskell 15 Nov [1855]
8 EN to Mrs. Gaskell [July 1856]
9 EN - Two draft accounts of Emily Brontë; nd
10 EN - Extract from Maeterlinck
11 EN to ` Meta Gaskell (?) [1855/56?] (on Emily and Charlotte Brontë) (incomplete).
12 EN to Mrs. Gaskell (?) [1855/56?] (on Charlotte Brontë) (incomplete).

13. Smith, Elder & Co. Brontëana. Autograph letters from Messrs Smith, Elder & Co (mainly from Reginald J Smith) to Clement King Shorter (CKS). 30 letters 1895-1916.
Includes letters re agreement to publish an edition of Mrs. Gaskell’s life of CB with preface & annotations by CKS.

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14. Fifty-three letters, mostly from A B Nicholls (ABN) to Clement K Shorter (CKS), c1895-1904. All autograph letters - the transcripts follow in (16) below.

1 ABN to CKS 23 Mar 1895
2 ABN to CKS 26 Apr 1895
3 ABN to CKS 2 May 1895
4 ABN to CKS 7 May 1895
5 ABN to CKS 15 May 1895
6 ABN to CKS 22 May 1895
7 ABN to CKS 4 Jun 1895
8 ABN to CKS 6 Jun 1895
9 ABN to CKS 10 Jun 1895
10 ABN to CKS 18 Jun 1895
11 ABN to CKS 24 Jun 1895
12 ABN to CKS 3 Jul 1895
13 ABN to CKS 10 Jul 1895
14 ABN to CKS 5 Sep 1895
15 ABN to CKS 11 Sep 1895
16 ABN to CKS 11 Nov 1895
17 ABN to CKS 14 Nov 1895
18 ABN to CKS 28 Dec 1895
19 ABN to CKS 4 Jan 1896
20 ABN to CKS 6 Jan 1896
21 ABN to CKS 13 Jan 1896
22 ABN to CKS 21 Jan 1896
23 ABN to CKS 31 Jan 1896
24 ABN to CKS 17 Feb 1896
25 ABN to CKS 8 Apr 1896
26 ABN to CKS 17 Apr 1896
27 ABN to CKS 23 Apr 1896
28 ABN to CKS 30 Apr 1896
29 ABN to CKS 2 Jun 1896
30 ABN to CKS 8 Jun 1896
31 ABN to CKS 24 Jun 1896
32 ABN to CKS 13 Oct 1896
33 ABN to CKS 28 Dec 1896
34 ABN to CKS 20 Mar 1897
35 ABN to CKS 14 Apr 1897
36 ABN to CKS 4 May 1897
37 ABN to CKS 25 May 1897
38 ABN to CKS 3 Aug 1897
39 ABN to CKS 8 Dec 1897
40 ABN to CKS 14 Dec 1897
41 ABN to CKS 30 Mar 1898
42 ABN to CKS 22 Jun 1898
43 ABN to CKS 15 Aug 1898
44 ABN to CKS 12 Sep 1898
45 ABN to CKS 10 Jul 1899
46 ABN to CKS 18 Oct 1899
47 ABN to CKS 24 Oct 1899
48 ABN to CKS 3 Feb 1900
49 ABN to CKS 11 May 1900
50 ABN to CKS nd
51 ABN to CKS 22 Sep 1902
52 M A Nicholls to CKS 23 May 1904
53 Mrs J C Newland to CKS 26 Feb ----

15. Nine letters from A B Nicholls (ABN) to Ellen Nussey (EN), 1855.
1 ABN to EN 23 Jan 1855
2 ABN to EN 29 Jan 1855
3 ABN to EN 1 Feb 1855
4 ABN to EN 14 Feb 1855
5 ABN to EN 15 Mar 1855 (written a fortnight before CB’s death - items 2-5 describe her condition)
6 ABN to EN 11 Apr 1855
7 ABN to EN 16 Apr 1855
8 ABN to EN 24 Jul 1855
9 ABN to EN 24 Dec 1855
16. Transcripts of fifty-three letters, mostly from A B Nicholls (ABN) to Clement K Shorter (CKS), c1895-1904. The original letters are in (14) above.

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17. Patrick Bronwell Brontë (henceforth PBB). Original Ms poem begins “While fabled scenes and fancied forms ….” (There is a map on the back of the poem).

18. PBB. Original Ms poem begins “I saw a picture, yesterday - “

19. PBB. Letters from an Englishman. 6 volumes, I-VI, written 1830-1832. c60ff.
Six tiny booklets (c10 x 7.5cm) compiled and written by PBB. The handwriting is very small and these items will appear greatly magnified on microfilm readers.

20. PBB. The Odes of Quintus Horatius Flaccus. 1840. (translations from Horace).
Boxed and bound in satin. Ex libris John Drinkwater. Cover + note + 33pp.
PBB’s ms translation of the Odes of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace).

21. PBB. Caractacus. 1830. - Not Available at the time of filming.
Also ex libris John Drinkwater. A dramatic poem. Cover + note + 12ff.

22. PBB. Manuscripts relating to the History of Angria, the imaginary world written into existence by the Brontë children following the gift of a box of wooden toy soldiers to Branwell. As with (19) above, many are small in size and are written in miniature script. A box containing 15 folders (each consists of a title page, the original manuscript and a transcription):

1 Events preceding the formation of Kingdom of Angria (written 1834).
2 Coronation of Adrian Augustus Wellesley, 1st King of Angria, containing The National Song of Angria and the Anthem of the Coronation (written 1834).
3 Northangerland’s letter to the Angrians and the opening of the 1st Angrian Parliament, containing the poem The Angrian Welcome (written 1834).
4 The Massacre of Dongola (written 1834-1835).
5 Events Preceding the Angrian Revolution (written 1836).
6 The Adventures of Charles Wentworth (written 1836).
7 Northangerland’s Address to the Angrians before the Revolution (written 1836).
8 Further Events Preceding the Angrian Revolution (written 1836).
9 The Angrian Revolution (written 1836).
10 The Angrian Adventure, beginning with the poem The Battle of Edwardston (written 1836) and Warner’s Appeal to the Angrians for the restoration of Zamorna to the throne of Angria (written 1836).
11 The End of the Angrian Revolution (two fragments only - c1836-37).
12 Death of Mary, Wife of Northangerland.
7 Leaves from his Notebook (poor condition).
Poems:
(a) The Shepherd’s chief mourner;
(b) “Oh Thou whose beams were most withdrawn”;
(c) “When first old time with me shook hands”;
(d) “Thorp Green”;
(e) Nelson (a fragment).
15 Miscellaneous Pages from notebooks, containing:
(a) “Percy at length drew near to ask” (fragment);
(b) Notes on Southey’s Peninsular War;
(c) “While holy Wheelhouse far above…” (on Dr Wheelhouse).

23. PBB. The Leyland Mss. This consists of a group of 21 illustrated letters written by PBB to his friend Joseph Bentley Leyland, artist and sculptor, of Halifax. The letters and drawings were at one stage (c1925) mounted in a volume containing an introduction to the letters and complete transcriptions. This volume has now been disaggregated for preservation reasons and most of the original letters have been put into separate folders. We have filmed:
a: The volume with the transcript of the Leyland Mss;
b: The Manuscript letters and drawings - in (24) below.

The letters are dated as follows:

1 PBB to J B Leyland 15 May 1842
2 PBB to J B Leyland 29 Jun 1842
3 PBB to J B Leyland 12 Jul 1842 (in situ)
4 PBB to J B Leyland 10 Aug 1842
5 PBB to J B Leyland 4 Aug 1845
6 PBB to J B Leyland 19 Aug 1845
7 PBB to J B Leyland 10 Sep 1845
8 PBB to J B Leyland 25 Nov 1845
9 PBB to J B Leyland [28 Apr 1846]
10 PBB to J B Leyland Jun 1846
11 PBB to J B Leyland Jun/Jul 1846
12 PBB to J B Leyland 2 Jul 1846 (in situ)
13 PBB to J B Leyland Oct 1846
14 PBB to J B Leyland Jan 1847 (in situ)
15 PBB to J B Leyland 24 Jan 1847
16 PBB to J B Leyland 1847?
17 PBB to J B Leyland 16 Jul 1847
18 PBB to J B Leyland 1848? (in situ)
19 PBB to J B Leyland Jan 1848
20 PBB to J B Leyland 22 Jul 1848
21 PBB to J B Leyland c1848

24. PBB. Manuscript letters and sketches from Leyland Ms (see (23) above).
Includes illustrations of ‘Alexander Percy - Northangerland’, ‘Paradise & Purgatory’, ‘Patrick Reid - “turned off,” without his cap [hanged]’, and ‘Our Lady of Greif (sic)’.

25. PBB. Queen Mary’s Grave.

26. PBB. Als to J B Leyland. (22 Jul 1843) This relates to (23) above.

27. PBB. Autograph poem. Begins “Tell me what …”

28. PBB. Autograph poem. Lydia Gisborne. Written Nov 1845.

29. PBB. Autograph poem. Pen Maen Mawr.

30. PBB. Autograph Poem. An echo from Indian Cannon.

31. PBB. Autograph Poem. Begins “Long since that bold heart …”

32. PBB. Miniature Stories. The whereabouts of these manuscripts was unknown from 1904 until 1980 when they were purchased by the Brotherton Collection.
Small leaves (c19 x 12cm) mounted in guard frames. Contains:
1 Real life in Verdopolis, vols I & II. 18 leaves (written 1835).
2 The life of Field Marshal the Right Honourable Alexan[d]er Percy, Earl of Northangerland, vols I & II. 16 leaves.

33. Two letters from PBB:
1 PBB to Mr Grundy [1848?]
(On PBB’s illness and his role as tutor to Mrs Gisborne. “This Lady (though her husband detested me) showed toward me a degree of kindness which - when I was deeply grieved one day at her husbands conduct - opened into an unexpected declaration of more than ordinary feeling.”)
2 PBB to ? 22 May 1846

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