BIB_ID
283622
Accession number
MA 2696.30
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
1854 November 7.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Several names are crossed out, probably by Nussey.
Signed "C. Brontë" with "C.B. Nicholls" written over it.
High reserve.
Signed "C. Brontë" with "C.B. Nicholls" written over it.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Discussing the death of Elizabeth Cockhill, a former classmate at Roe Head; noting that Arthur Bell Nicholls thanks Nussey for her promise to burn the letters Charlotte Brontë sends to her; commenting on men's letters as "proverbially uninteresting and uncommunicative"; mentioning her coming visit to see Nussey.
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