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Add. MS c/80/7
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Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Nell [Ellen Nussey]
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- 24 July 1851 (Creation)
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3 pp.
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Gift of Thomas Parkin, 1914.
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Hopes she did not become ill on her return home; received a long letter from [Harriet] Martineau, who says she did not write the article on 'Woman' in the Westminster Review but rather it was by [John Stuart Mill]; Mr N [Nicholls] came to call before his departure for Ireland; encloses a note for her amusement from the man who called about an epitaph for his cousin [not present].
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Clement Shorter, Charlotte Brontë and her circle. London, 1896.
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Accompanied by two letters from Thomas Parkin to Alexander Gordon Wynch Murray, Librarian of Trinity College relating to the gift of the letter dated 16 and 18 May 1914.
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- Nussey, Ellen (1817-1897) friend of Charlotte Bronte (Subject)
- Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876), writer and journalist (Subject)
- Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873), philosopher, economist, and advocate of women's rights (Subject)
- Nicholls, Arthur Bell (1819-1906), husband of Charlotte Bronte (Subject)
- Parkin, Thomas (1845-1932) ornithologist (Subject)
- Murray, Alexander Gordon Wynch (1884-1919), bibliographer (Subject)