BIB_ID
81543
Accession number
MA 2696.24
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
[1839 June 30].
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 25.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes
With postmark and seal, addressed to Nussey at Brookroyd, Birstal, Leeds.
The postmark is dated July 1, 1839 from Harrogate, a town near Swarcliffe, a summer home of Brontë's employer.
Date of writing from The letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Margaret Smith.
Labeled "39" and "July--39" in Ellen Nussey's hand.
High reserve.
The postmark is dated July 1, 1839 from Harrogate, a town near Swarcliffe, a summer home of Brontë's employer.
Date of writing from The letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Margaret Smith.
Labeled "39" and "July--39" in Ellen Nussey's hand.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Describing her "miseries" as a shy new governess in a house filled with strangers and asking Nussey not to "communicate the contents of this letter to any one."
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