BIB_ID
118021
Accession number
MA 2696.53
Creator
Taylor, Mary, 1817-1893.
Display Date
ca. 1848 July 1.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 25.5 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Postmark of receipt dated 14 December 1848; July 1 appears in the middle of p. 1.
One sheet of this letter, as printed in The Brontës: their lives, friendships and correspondence (Shakespeare Head Press, 1932), is missing.
High reserve.
One sheet of this letter, as printed in The Brontës: their lives, friendships and correspondence (Shakespeare Head Press, 1932), is missing.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Giving her opinion of Jane Eyre; comparing Charlotte Brontë's book to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey; discussing her own progress in writing a book; describing her life in New Zealand.
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