BIB_ID
283624
Accession number
MA 2696.28
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
1854 October 11.
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 with her married name.
High reserve.
Signed with her married name.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Criticizing Amelia Taylor for "worshipping Mrs. Paulton['s] fine clothes"; expressing Arthur Bell Nicholls' frustration with Amelia Taylor; commenting on her husband's sermons; describing how those who "trust the promises of Christianity" feel resignation when a loved one dies, but "some time afterwards ... the dark & durable regrets arise."
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