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Autograph letter signed : Knutsford, to Mrs. [Maria] James, [1855] December 3.

BIB_ID
193302
Accession number
MA 2696.52
Creator
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.
Display Date
[1855] December 3.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (10 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.1 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Apologizing for not writing sooner because "I have had an immense number of letters to look over, and make notes from, of poor Miss [Charlotte] Brontë's lately ... "; mentioning the impossibility of a meeting with Mrs. Browning; reporting that Lady Hatherton had written that "Sir James [Kay Shuttleworth] had perhaps been one of Miss Brontë's most confidential friends, and had seen a great deal, comparatively speaking, of her after her marriage"; reporting on a visit to James Kay Shuttleworth during which "he was hardly able to speak of anything but Miss Brontë."