BIB_ID
283621
Accession number
MA 2696.29
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
[1854 October 20?].
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Labeled "329," "omitted," and "Probably Oct.--54" (by Ellen Nussey?).
Several names are crossed out, probably by Nussey.
Signed with her married name.
High reserve.
Several names are crossed out, probably by Nussey.
Signed with her married name.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Describing a visit from the Taylors; noting that Arthur Bell Nicholls thinks she writes too freely; asking Nussey to burn the letter because "Arthur says such letters as mine never ought to be kept," but admitting that she "can't help laughing" because his response "seems to me so funny."
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