BIB_ID
283644
Accession number
MA 2696.26
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
[1843 June?].
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 20.0 x 15.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Labeled "82" and "Brussels--43" in Ellen Nussey's hand; Nussey has also crossed out or erased many of the names.
The letter switches from ink to pencil at the top of p. 2.
The last page is only half a sheet of paper.
The envelope is from a more recent time and is labeled: "M.S. letter from C.B. to E.N. (pencil)."
High reserve.
The letter switches from ink to pencil at the top of p. 2.
The last page is only half a sheet of paper.
The envelope is from a more recent time and is labeled: "M.S. letter from C.B. to E.N. (pencil)."
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Describing her homesickness in Belgium: "I have nobody to speak to--for I count the Belgians as nothing"; giving her opinion on Mary Taylor's decision to teach boys; noting that Henry Nussey would not last as a missionary; complaining of long afternoons spent alone while Madame Heger "never comes near" her; hinting that she may know why Madame Heger ignores her.
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