BIB_ID
81558
Accession number
MA 2696.12
Creator
Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848.
Display Date
1836 July.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (5 p., bound) ; 6.1-10.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
The first poem ("Hours and days my heart has lain") is accompanied by the following note in Branwell Brontë's hand: "I am more terrifically and infernally and Idiotically and Brutally STUPID--than ever I was in the whole course of my incarnate existence. The above prescious [sic] lines are the fruits of one hours [sic] most agonizing labour between 1/2 past 6 and 1/2 past 7 on the evening of Wednesday. July 1836." This poem has only been printed in The works of Patrick Branwell Brontë, v. 2, 1834-1836 (ed. Victor Neufeldt, Garland, 1999), p. 586.
The poems by Branwell Brontë in this item were originally attributed to Emily Brontë and published as her work in early editions of her poems (cf. The complete poems of Emily Jane Brontë, ed. Clement Shorter, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910).
Written in a microscopic hand.
The first poem ("Hours and days my heart has lain") is accompanied by the following note in Branwell Brontë's hand: "I am more terrifically and infernally and Idiotically and Brutally STUPID--than ever I was in the whole course of my incarnate existence. The above prescious [sic] lines are the fruits of one hours [sic] most agonizing labour between 1/2 past 6 and 1/2 past 7 on the evening of Wednesday. July 1836." This poem has only been printed in The works of Patrick Branwell Brontë, v. 2, 1834-1836 (ed. Victor Neufeldt, Garland, 1999), p. 586.
The poems by Branwell Brontë in this item were originally attributed to Emily Brontë and published as her work in early editions of her poems (cf. The complete poems of Emily Jane Brontë, ed. Clement Shorter, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910).
Written in a microscopic hand.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
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