BIB_ID
283652
Accession number
MA 2696.37
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
1849 May 8.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (7 pages ) ; 14.6 x 9.1 cm
Notes
Written on mourning stationery.
High reserve.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Commenting on her sister Anne's declining health and noting that Anne has many of the symptoms Emily Brontë had before she died; mentioning a trip to Scarborough she is planning at Anne's request; reporting on her father's health; expressing her hope that "Mr. Smith will not risk a cheap edition of 'Jane Eyre' yet"; explaining that she does not know when her next novel will be ready; warning him that even if her "path were quite smooth" she "could never march with the head of a Scott, a Bulwer, a Thackeray, or a Dickens"; directing him to tell Thackeray that the secret of Currer Bell's identity "will be well kept because it is not worth disclosure."
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