BIB_ID
283651
Accession number
MA 2696.36
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
1848 October 2.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 10.9 cm
Notes
Written on mourning stationery.
High reserve.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Discussing her brother Branwell's death; explaining that her sorrow is due not to a "sense of bereavement" but to "the wreck of talent, the ruin of promise, the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a burning and shining light"; describing her father's response to the death of his only son; mentioning her own illness; lamenting that Branwell did not know before he died that his sisters were published authors.
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