Brontës (207 page)

6.
CB to EN, 29 Sept 1846: MS BS 57 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, i, 500]; PB, annotations in his copy of Graham,
Modern Domestic Medicine
: HAOBP:bb210 pp.226–8, BPM [JB
ST
, no.42].

7.
CB to EN, 17 Nov 1846: MS Gr. E12 p.2, BPM [
LCB
, i, 504]; Baptisms and Burials, Haworth. Patrick received occasional help from Grant of Oxenhope and Eggleston, curate of Keighley.

8.
[HM], Obituary of Charlotte Brontë in
Daily News
, 6April 1855 [Allott, 303–4].

9.
CB, Preface to The Professor [1850]: MS MA 32, PM [CB,
The Professor
, 2].

10.
George A. Wade, ‘Charlotte Brontë as I Knew Her: A Chat with the Rev J C Bradley',
Great Thoughts
, 17 Oct 1908 pp.278–9: a typescript copy in CKS Collection, Brotherton; CB to EN, 17 Nov 1846: MS Gr. E12 pp.2–3, BPM [
LCB
, i, 504]. Bradley identified the house as belonging to the Greenwoods, suggesting it was Spring Head he had in mind. Ellen claimed that the story was inspired by a ghostly lady stalking the attics of Roe Head [EN, Reminiscences,
BST
:2:10:68–9] and there is still an attic room in the upper storey of Norton Conyers, near Ripon, where Charlotte may have visited while a governess with the Sidgwicks, which is said to have suggested the mad woman's cell.

11.
AB, Mirth and Mourning, 15 July 1846, and ‘Weep not too much my darling', 28 July 1846: MS HM 2576 pp.8–11, 11–14, Huntington [Chitham, 130–3]; AB, ‘The Power of Love' 13 Aug 1846, and ‘I dreamt last night; and in that dream', 14 Sept 1846: MS Bon 135 pp.3–7, 7–16 [Chitham, 134–40]; AB, ‘Gloomily the clouds are sailing', 6Oct 1846: MS Bon 136 pp.12–14, BPM [Chitham, 140–1].

12.
EJB, ‘Why ask to know the date – the clime', 14 Sept 1846: MS Add 43483 pp.62–7, BL [Roper, 184–92]. Anne's poem written on the same day and subject, though from a different perspective, is AB, ‘I dreamt last night; and in that
dream', 14 Sept 1846: MS Bon 135 pp.7–16 [Chitham, 136–40].

13.
Part of the time may have been occupied in sittings for Leyland's medallion portrait: see above, pp.579, 1081 n.42.

14.
Mary Pearson, Commonplace Book, [1841–7]: MS pp.55–6, Texas; Census Returns for Ovenden, 1841: Microfilm, WYAS, Calderdale. Mary's age at the time of Branwell's visit is uncertain: the census describes her and two of her sisters as all being 15 in 1841, which is extremely unlikely, but as she is listed first she may have been the eldest. By 1847, the year after Branwell's visit, she was old enough to have taken over the running of the Ovenden Cross and was still unmarried: White,
Directory of the
…
West Riding of Yorkshire
(1847), 466.

15.
Mary Pearson, Commonplace Book, [1841–7]: MS pp.55–6, Texas [VN
PBB
, 458]. PBB, ‘Why hold young eyes the fullest fount of tears' [On the callowness produced by Cares] had already been published in the
Bradford Herald
and
Halifax Guardian
in May 1842: see above, p.467. An earlier version of ‘When all our cheerful hours seem gone for ever' MS p.50) was included in PBB to JBL, 28 Apr 1846: MS p.4, Brotherton [VN
PBB
, 144]. The similar epitaph, written under a sketch of Branwell as a corpse and a tombstone, reads ‘MARTINI LUIGI IMPLORA ETERNA QUIETE!'; under this Branwell has written ‘“Martin Luke implores for eternal rest!” (Italian epitaph.)' [A&S, no.302]; PBB to JBL, [Jan 1847]: MS in Brotherton. [
L&L
, ii, 120]. As Leyland pointed out, Branwell must have been aware that Byron, one of his literary heroes, had seen a Bolognese tomb inscribed ‘Implora pace!' and had expressed a wish to have these words written on his own grave. He would also have known Mrs Hemans' poem of the same title inspired by reading this remark: Leyland, ii, 256. Branwell seems to have made a study of epitaphs after his dismissal from Thorp Green: see above, p.1079 n.111.

16.
Mary Pearson Commonplace Book, [1841–7]: MS p.52, Texas [A&S no.298].

17.
Ibid., p.54 [VN
PBB
, 283; A&S no.299].

18.
Ibid., pp.49, 51. Mary included a further 4 cuttings of Branwell's poems from the
Halifax Guardian
: ‘On Peaceful Death and Painful Life', ‘Real Rest', ‘Caroline's Prayer' and ‘Song': ibid., pp.24, 28, 35. I am grateful to Victor Neufeldt for this information. On p.53, opposite Branwell's self-portrait, is a clipping from the same paper of a poem entitled ‘Speak Kindly': though uncharacteristically anonymous, the sentiments and metre are typical of Branwell and the whole poem is strongly reminiscent of his ‘The man who will not know another', see above, p.433. I think the poem must be by Branwell and, as it is unpublished, I append a transcript: ‘Speak kindly to thy fellow man,/ Who droops from weight of woe!/ He sinks beneath deep sorrow's ban/ With cares thou canst not know:/ Oh! kindly speak, for deadly grief/ Is gnawing at his heart;/ It may be thine to give relief,/ And act a brother's part!/ Perchance, from thee, a single word,/ Spoken in accents kind,/ May a sweet transient joy afford/ To his o'ercharged mind;/ And though his care-worn heart is filled/ With heaviness and gloom,/ It may cause peace and hope to gild/ His passage to the tomb!/ Turn not the wanderer away,/ E'en though the weight of sin/ Hath quench'd his spirit's heavenly ray,/ And darken'd all within!/ Oh! chide him not – nor coldly spurn/ His now repentant tears;/ For from that one good spark may burn/ A flame in after years/ Yes! kindly speak – and bid his soul/ From its dejection rise,/ Push back the waves which round him roll,/And point him to the skies:/ Stay not to ask his grade, nor how/ He into evil ran, –/ It is enough for thee to know/ He is thy fellow man.'

19.
PBB to JBL, [Oct 1846]: MS pp.2–3, Brotherton [
L&L
, ii, 114].

20.
PBB to JBL, [Jan 1847]: MS p.1, Brotherton [
L&L
, ii, 121].

21.
CB to EN, [13 Dec 1846]: MS HM 24450 pp.2–3, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 507].

22.
PBB to JBL, [Jan 1847]: MS p.1, Brotherton [
L&L
, ii, 121].

23.
PBB to JBL, [24 Jan 1847]: MS p.1, Brotherton [
LCB
, i, 512].

24.
Ibid., p.4. [
LCB
, i, 513–4].

25.
On 12 May Charlotte said that Branwell had ‘got to the end of a considerable sum of money of which he became possessed in the Spring': CB to EN, 12 May [1847]: MS p.2, Berg [
LCB
, i, 524]. Gaskell mentions £20 a time as being the amount Mrs Robinson sent Branwell: ECG,
Life
, 524.

26.
PBB to JBL, [24 Jan 1847]: MS pp.2–3, Brotherton [
LCB
, i, 512–13].

27.
MT to ECG, [1857]: MS n.l. [Stevens, 164].

28.
CB to EN, 14 Oct 1846: MS HM 24449 pp.4–5, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 503]; CB to EN, [24 Mar 1847]: MS Bon 191 pp.3–4, BPM [
LCB
, i, 520].

29.
CB to EN, [13 Dec 1846]: MS HM 24450
p.1, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 506–7]. The weather had been unseasonably mild throughout the rest of the year:
BO
, 5 Feb 1846 p.5; 13 June 1846 p.8; 3 Sept 1846 p.8.

30.
CB to EN, [13 Dec 1846]: MS HM 24450 p.1, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 507].

31.
LM
, 17 Jan 1846 p.9;
BO
, 5Feb 1846 p.5; 20 Aug 1846 p.8; 3Sept 1846 p.8; ECG,
Life
, 45. Gaskell does not identify the strike but this was the most bitter and protracted of Patrick's incumbency and the strikers would certainly have needed his assistance ‘by all the means in his power to keep “the wolf from their doors,” and avoid the incubus of debt'. In supporting the wool-combers against the mill-owners Patrick incurred the wrath of the most powerful and influential section of his congregation but persevered in pursuit of what he believed was right.

32.
BO
, 3Sept 1846 p.8; 24 Sept 1846 p.8; 26 Nov 1846 p.5; 31 Dec 1846 p.8.

33.
Ibid., 19 Nov 1846 p.8; 11 Feb 1847 p.8. The rector peevishly refused Milligan's services in the investigation, presumably fearing he would be too radical in his views:
LI
, 27 Feb 1847 p.8;
BO
, 25 Mar 1847 p.8. Milligan had lectured ‘On the moral and intellectual conduct of England and her people', attacking the immorality, drunkenness, prostitution and poverty of London while praising its fine buildings and famous literary and scientific men: ibid., 14 Jan 1847 p.8. See also above, p.1048, n.37.

34.
Ibid., 31 Dec 1846 p.8.Though it is possible Patrick was aligning himself with Scoresby's opponents (Morgan and Boddington both declined to attend) it is more likely that distance and bad weather prevented him attending so soon after his cataract operation.

35.
HG
, 6 Mar 1847 p.4.

36.
PB,
LI
, 27 Mar 1847 p.8[
LRPB
, 186–7].

37.
PB, marginal notes in his copy of Graham,
Modern Domestic Medicine
): HAOBP:bb210 contents page, BPM.

38.
PB,
LM
, 5June 1847 p.7 [
LRPB
, 188]. Later in the year Charlotte told Ellen that she ‘had always consoled myself with the idea of having my front teeth extracted and rearranged some day' under the influence of ether but, having heard of its effect on Ellen's friend, Catherine Swaine, she would ‘think twice before I consented to inhale; one would not like to make a fool of oneself': CB to EN, [?29 Oct or early Nov 1847]: MS 24456 p.4, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 556].

39.
PB,
LI
, 25 Sept 1847 p.6[
LRPB
, 190]. Patrick had conducted a personal crusade on behalf of clever, pious young men in his parish for many years, offering William Hodgson a curacy, for example, and supporting their applications for preferment: see, for example, his testimonial for Revd W. R. Thomas who wished to become an emigrant teacher: PB to the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 22 June 1850: MS file DOS 1961, USPG [
LRPB
, 199].

40.
PB, Church Reform, Nov 1847: MS pp.1–2, in private hands. This copy, in Patrick's hand, was preserved by Nicholls: another copy in an unidentified hand, is MS BS x, H, BPM.

41.
CB to EN, 28 Dec 1846: MS HM 24451 pp.2–3, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 509].

42.
CB to EN, 19 Jan 1847: MS BS 57.5, pp.2–4, BPM [
LCB
, i, 511]. Ellen has deleted her sister-in-law's name in the ms.

43.
CB to EN, 1 Mar 1847: MS pp.2–3, Law, photograph in MCP, BPM [
LCB
, i, 518].

44.
Ibid, p.3[
LCB
, i, 520].

45.
The Robinsons finally left Thorp Green on 3March 1847, Mrs Robinson to go ‘among her relations', the children into lodgings in York until 10 March when they joined their mother at Great Barr Hall: Hibbs,
Victorian Ouseburn
, 25(e), 26(f). According to Whitehead, the Misses Robinson had been on a protracted visit ‘among their relations'; from 16 November 1846 to 8February 1847: ibid., 24(a).

46.
CB to EN, 1Mar 1847: MS p.3, Law, photograph in MCP, BPM [
LCB
, i, 518].

47.
CB to EN, 12 May [1847]: MS p.3, Berg [
LCB
, i, 524].

48.
CB to EN, [?14 May 1847]: MS pp.2–3, Columbia [
LCB
, i, 525];
BO
, 18 Mar 1847 p.4. Two of Branwell's friends, Francis Grundy and George Gooch, were engineers on this new line:
HG
, 6Mar 1847 p.4.

49.
CB to EN, [?17 May 1847]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, i, 526].

50.
CB to EN, 20 May [1847]: MS Bon 192 pp.1–3, 4 crossed, BPM [
LCB
, i, 527]. Ellen eventually stayed at Haworth 20 July–12 August 1847, her visit being memorable only for her involvement in a carriage accident at its close: CB to EN, [12 Aug 1847]: MS Bon 193 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, i, 536]. I am grateful to Margaret Smith for identifying the period of Ellen's visit which must have coincided with Charlotte's receiving a letter from Smith, Elder & Co about
The Professor
: see below, p.620–1.

51.
CB to EN, [?25 May 1847]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, i, 527–8]; CB to EN, 5June 1847: MS HM 24453 p.4, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 529].

52.
PBB to JBL, [16 July 1847]: MS p.1, Brotherton [
L&L
, ii, 137].

53.
HG
, 5 June 1847 p.6. The first draft of this poem is PBB, ‘Upon that dreary winters night', 15 Dec 1837: MS Bon 151, BPM [VN
PBB
, 518–21]. There is a particularly poignant change in the first verse where the poet's anticipated suffering ‘through many an hour' is changed to ‘not hours, but years'.

54.
See, for example, PBB, ‘The westering sunbeams smiled on Percy Hall', [May–June 1847]: MS n.l. [Leyland, ii, 259–63; VN
PBB
, 291–2]; PBB, ‘Might rough rocks find neath calmest sea', [1847]: MS in Brotherton [VN
PBB
, 294].

55.
CB,
Biographical Notice
, 361; G. Larken, ‘The Shuffling Scamp',
BST
:15:80:400; CB to GS, 18 Sept 1850: MS SG 40 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 473]. According to Charlotte, Newby mentions ‘in his letter to my sister that “the sale of 250 copies would leave a surplus of 100£ to be divided”‘. In another letter, Charlotte claimed Newby had undertaken to print 350 copies of
Wuthering Heights
and
Agnes Grey
but then declared he had only printed 250: Emily and Anne's deposit of £50 should therefore have been returned to them but they never received a penny: CB to WSW, 13 Sept 1850: MS MA 2696 R-V p.1, PM [
LCB
, ii, 465].

56.
CB to Smith, Elder & Co., 15 July 1847: MS SG 1 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, i, 533]. The fact that this was her seventh attempt to find a publisher is mentioned in CB to G.H. Lewes, 6 Nov 1847: MS Add 39763 p.2, BL [
LCB
, i, 559].