BIB_ID
81037
Accession number
MA 2696.41
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
1850 September 26.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.6 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Mentioning a copy of Wordsworth's Prelude that Elizabeth Gaskell has borrowed from her; sending her a copy of Poems by the Brontë sisters and giving her opinion on the merits of Anne and Emily Brontë's poems; alluding to a forthcoming "Christmas Book" by Mrs. Gaskell; noting that she experienced a "too keen-edged emotion" while reading Mary Barton and "there are parts [she] shall never dare to read a second time."
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