BIB_ID
283601
Accession number
MA 2696.25
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
1840 January 24.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.7 x 20.2 cm
Notes
With postmark and seal, addressed to Nussey at Brookroyd, Birstall, Leeds.
The postmark is from Bradford, near Haworth.
The signature on p. 3 has been cut out.
Two names on p. 1 have been crossed out in ink (probably by Ellen Nussey).
High reserve.
The postmark is from Bradford, near Haworth.
The signature on p. 3 has been cut out.
Two names on p. 1 have been crossed out in ink (probably by Ellen Nussey).
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Telling Nussey that she has decided not to be a governess for the Halliley family and is "again adrift"; counseling Nussey to be mindful of her health in looking for work as a governess because she "could never live in an unruly, violent family of modern children"; noting that her family is "singularly deficient" in "the chief requisite" for being a governess: "taking things easily as they come" and "making oneself comfortable ... wherever one may chance to be"; commenting on Mary Taylor's illness and describing the death of a Mr. Price.
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