Brontës (211 page)

42.
CB to EN, 10 Dec 1848: MS p.1, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 152].

43.
EN, Reminiscences [
BST
:8:42:21].

44.
CB to WSW, 2 Jan 1849: MS p.2, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 165]; CB to GS, 22 Jan 1849: MS SG 20 pp.3–4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 171].

45.
CB to EN, 10 Jan 1849: MS HM 24463 pp.1–2, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 166]; CB to EN, 15 Jan 1849: MS pp.1–2, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 169].

46.
CB to WSW, [?13 Jan 1849]: MS Bon 205 p.4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 168].

47.
AB, ‘A dreadful darkness closes in', 7–28 Jan 1849: MS Bon 137 pp.1–2, BPM [JB
ST
no.26; Chitham, 163–4]. The poem exists in rough draft only and has several versions of some words and lines. The second verse has 2cancelled readings to describe the mist, ‘rolling' and ‘gathering', plus one alternative ‘blinding'. In the 5th verse, ‘pure' is an alter-native for ‘Keen', in the 6th ‘breaking' for ‘bleeding' and in the 7th ‘For' for ‘O'.

48.
Ibid., pp.1–2, the 3rd verse quoted here has an alternative 2nd line, ‘What ever be' for ‘Whate'er' and ‘may be' for ‘my written'.

49.
CB to WSW, [?13 Jan 1849]: MS Bon 205 p.4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 167–8]. Ellen had returned home, leaving her box behind, by 9 January: Charlotte rejected a proferred visit from the Taylors, feeling unable to receive them properly: CB to EN, 10 Jan 1849: MS HM 24463 pp.1–3, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 166].

50.
CB to WSW, [?13 Jan 1849]: MS Bon 205 pp.1–2, 3–5, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 167–8]. The fifth page of this letter is missing.

51.
CB to EN, 15 Jan 1849: MS pp.3, 2, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 169]; CB to EN, [
c
.29 Jan 1849]: MS MA 2696 R-V p.3, PM [
LCB
, ii, 173].

52.
Ibid., p.2[
LCB
, ii, 172]; CB to WSW, 1 Feb 1849: MS Gr. F7 p.2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 174–5]. Charlotte asked Ellen to buy the 30s. respirator.

53.
CB to GS, 22 Jan 1849: MS SG 20 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 170–1]; CB to EN, [
c
.29 Jan 1849]: MS MA 2696 R-V pp.2–3, PM [
LCB
, ii, 173].

54.
CB to WSW, [?13 Jan 1849]: MS Bon 205 pp.3–4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 168]. CB to WSW, 1Feb 1849: MS Gr. F7 pp.1–4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 174–5] notes Anne's improvement and Charlotte's revival of interest in literary mat-ters.

55.
Ibid., p.4[
LCB
, ii, 174].

56.
CB to WSW, 4Feb 1849: MS BS 67 pp.2–3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 177].

57.
CB to James Taylor, 1Mar 1849: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 188].

58.
CB to WSW, [?
c
.10 Feb 1849]: MS p.2, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 181].

59.
CBto EN, [
c
.13 June 1845]: MS HM 24440 p.2, Huntington [
LCB
, i, 399].

60.
CB to WSW, [?
c
.10 Feb 1849]: MS p.2, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 181]; CB to WSW, [?1Mar 1849]: MS Bon 208 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 185].

61.
CB,
Shirley
, 632. When describing ‘the premature and sudden vanishing of Mr Malone from the stage of Briarfield parish', she added a weighted comment in similar vein: ‘you cannot know how it happened, reader; your curiosity must be robbed to pay your elegant love of the pretty and pleasing': ibid, 634.

62.
CB to Laetitia Wheelwright, 15 Mar 1849: MS p.3, in private hands [
LCB
, ii, 190–1]. I am grateful to Roger Barrett for a photocopy of this ms and permission to quote from it.

63.
PB to Mr Rand, 26 Feb 1849: MS Bon 252, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 184–5]. The Rands had left Haworth for Stalybridge in the spring of 1845: CB to Mrs Rand, 26 May [1845]: MS 2696 R-V, PM [
LCB
, i, 393–4]; PB to Mr Rand, 5 June 1845: MS n.l. [
LRPB
, 185].

64.
CB to EN, 29 Mar 1849: MS Bon 207 pp.3–4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 194].

65.
Ibid., p.4 [
LCB
, ii, 194]; AB to EN, 5Apr 1849: MS BS 5pp.1–5, BPM [JB
ST
no.28;
LCB
, ii, 194–5].

66.
Ibid., pp.2–8 [
LCB
, ii, 195].

67.
CB to EN, 12 Apr 1849: MS Bon 209 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 200].

68.
PB, annotations in his copy of Graham,
Modern Domestic Medicine
: HAOBP:bb210 p.247, BPM; CB to EN, 12 Apr 1849: MS Bon 209 pp.2–3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 200], where Charlotte adds that they will go in ‘a month or six weeks hence' if Anne continued to insist on going; four days later, she was already deferring the journey to 6–8weeks hence: CB to WSW, 16 Apr 1849: MS p.2, Princeton [
LCB
, ii, 201].

69.
Ibid., p.2 [
LCB
, ii, 201]; CB to WSW, 8May 1849: MS MA 2696 R-V p.3, PM [
LCB
, ii, 206], where she remarks of the servants ‘One of them [Tabby] is indeed now old and infirm and unfit to stir much from her chair by the kitchen fireside – but the other is young and active and even she has lived with us seven years.'

70.
CB to EN, 12 Apr 1849: MS Bon 209 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 200].

71.
CB to EN, 1May 1849: MS MA 2696 R-V pp.1–3, PM [
LCB
, ii, 205].

72.
CB to EN[
c
.12–14 May 1849]: MS pp.1–2, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 208]. For Fanny Outhwaite's death, aged 54, on 14 February 1849, see
LI
, 17 Feb 1849 p.5.

73.
CB to MW, 16 May 1849: MS FM 7 pp.1–3, Fitzwilliam [
LCB
, ii, 210]. See also CB to EN, 16 May 1849: MS HM 24468 p.1, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 211].

74.
Ibid., p.1[
LCB
, ii, 211]. Ellen's presence at Haworth prior to the Brontës' departure is presumed from Charlotte's purchase of 3 train tickets from Keighley to Leeds costing 10s in all and confirmed by Ellen's diary where the entry on Wednesday 23 May ‘To Scarbro' with CB & AB' is deleted and replaced with ‘To Leeds'; next day she records ‘to Haworth – at York – the George Hotel': CB, Cash Book, [1848–9]: MS BS 22 p.11, BPM; EN, [Diary], [1849] in
A Christian Remembrancer
(London 1849): HAOBP:bb112, BPM [23 and 24 May 1849].

75.
CB to EN, 16 May 1849: MS HM 24468 p.1, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 211]; CB to WSW, 4June 1849: MS Ashley 2452 pp.2–3, BL [
LCB
, ii, 216].

76.
CB to WSW, [27 May 1849]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 213].

77.
CB to EN[
c
.12–14 May 1849]: MS p.2crossed, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 209]. A list of items titled ‘To be bought' appears on the opposite page to the relevant expenditure in CB, Cash Book, [1848–9]: MS BS 22 p.10, BPM. Ellen identifies the George Hotel as their quarters in York and, according to Charlotte's cash book, their stay cost them £20s 6d: EN, [Diary], [1849]: HAOBP: bb112, BPM (24 May 1849); CB, Cash Book, [1848–9]: MS BS 22 p.11, BPM.

78.
CB to WSW, [27 May 1849]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 213]; EN, ‘A short account of the last days of dear A.B.', n.d.: MS pp.1–2, KSC [
LCB
, ii, 739]. ECG,
Life
, 307–10 used Ellen's account selectively, omitting certain passages. Ellen appears to have expanded her account in the 1870s as the version quoted in Reid, 95–7[
LCB
, ii, 214 n.2] includes details not included in this ms.

79.
EN, Reminiscences [Reid, 95;
LCB
, ii, 214 n.2]; EN, ‘A short account of the last days of dear A.B.', n.d.: MS p.3, KSC [
LCB
, ii, 739].

80.
EN, [Diary], [1849]: HAOBP:bb112, BPM (27 May 1849); CB, Cash Book, [1848–9]: MS BS 22 p.12, BPM.

81.
EN, ‘A short account of the last days of dear A.B.', n.d.: MS p.3, KSC [
LCB
, ii, 739]; CB to WSW, [27 May 1849]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 213].

82.
EN, ‘A short account of the last days of dear A.B.', n.d.: MS pp.4–7, KSC [
LCB
, ii, 739–40]; ECG,
Life
, 308–9.

83.
EN, Reminiscences [Reid, 96;
LCB
, ii, 214 n.2].

84.
Ibid.; EN, ‘A short account of the last days of dear A.B.', n.d.: MS pp.8–11, KSC [
LCB
, ii, 740]; EN, Reminiscences [Reid, 96–7;
LCB
, ii, 214 n.2]; ECG,
Life
, 309.

85.
CB to WSW, 13 June 1849: MS Ashley 172 p.2, BL [
LCB
, ii, 220]; EN, ‘A short account of the last days of dear A.B.', n.d.: MS p.10, KSC [
LCB
, ii, 740]; ECG,
Life
, 309.

86.
EN, ‘A short account of the last days of dear A.B.', n.d.: MS pp.11–12, KSC [
LCB
, ii, 740–1]; CB to WSW, 30 May 1849: MS p.1, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 214].

87.
AB, Death Certificate, 28 May 1849: MS
BS x, D, BPM. Curiously, though a doctor had attended Anne's final hours, he neither certified nor registered the death. Miss Wooler is the ‘lady from the same neigh-bourhood as E[llen]' who unobtrusively attended Anne's funeral: ECG,
Life
, 310: Max Blakeley, ‘Memories of Margaret Wooler and her Sisters',
BST
:12:62:114.

88.
Scarborough Gazette
, 31 May 1849 pp.1, 3. The same edition, p.2, included Charlotte's and Ellen's names among the Scarborough visitors. In the deaths column Anne's address is given as Brookroyd, Birstall, near Leeds, suggesting either that Ellen supplied this information directly or that it had been taken from Ellen's details, given as the informant, on the death certificate. The death was reported correctly a week later in the West Riding papers:
BO
, 5 June 1849 p.8;
HG
, 9 June 1849 p.8;
LM
, 2 June 1849 p.8;
LI
, 2June 1849 p.5.

89.
CB to PB, 29 May 1849: MS n.l. but referred to in ECG,
Life
, 310.

90.
Register of Burials, 1841–1900, St Mary's Church, Scarborough (30 May 1849). A week after Anne's burial, a stray cannonball from the Civil War and a bell were both found embedded in the north walls of St Mary's church during their demolition:
LM
, 9June 1845 (supp) p.11.

91.
ECG,
Life
, 310; Max Blakeley, ‘Memories of Margaret Wooler and her Sisters',
BST
:12:62:114. See above, n.87.

92.
CB to WSW, 4 June 1849: MS Ashley 2452 pp.1–2, BL [
LCB
, ii, 216].

93.
CB to WSW, 30 May 1849: MS p.1, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 214]; CB to WSW, 4June 1849: MS Ashley 2452 p.3, BL [
LCB
, ii, 216].

94.
CB to WSW, 13 June 1849: MS Ashley 172 p.2, BL [
LCB
, ii, 220].

95.
CB to WSW, 4June 1849: MS Ashley 2452 p.3, BL [
LCB
, ii, 216]; CB to WSW, 13 June 1849: MS Ashley 172 p.2, BL [
LCB
, ii, 220].

96.
CB to Martha Brown, 5June 1849: MS BS 69 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 217–8]; CB to WSW, [27 May 1849]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 213]; CB to WSW, 13 June 1849: MS Ashley 172 p.2, BL [
LCB
, ii, 220].

97.
CB to WSW, 4June 1849: MS Ashley 2452 p.3, BL [
LCB
, ii, 216].

98.
CB to WSW, 13 June 1849: MS Ashley 172 p.4, BL [
LCB
, ii, 220]; CB to EN, 6 June 1852: MS HM 24496 pp.1–2, Huntington [
LCB
, iii, 51].

99.
CB to PB, 9June 1849: MSS in different locations [
LCB
, ii, 218]. Patrick cut this letter up to send samples of Charlotte's handwriting to autograph hunters; six fragments, all in different locations, have been found and the letter has been partially reconstructed in Margaret Smith, ‘A Reconstructed Letter',
BST
:20:1:42–7 esp. 44–5. Charlotte later complained of 5errors on the gravestone: these included Anne's age, which should have been 29: the same error also appears in the burial register: CB to MW, 23 June 1852: MS FM 15 p.3, Fitzwilliam [
LCB
, iii, 56]; Register of Burials, 1841–1900, St Mary's Church, Scarborough (30 May 1849).

100.
CB to WSW, 13 June 1849: MS Ashley 172 pp.1, 3–4, BL [
LCB
, ii, 219–20].

101.
Ibid., p.4[
LCB
, ii, 216]; CB to Martha Brown, [5June 1849]: MS BS 69, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 217–8]; CB to EN, 4July [1849]: MS BS 71.2 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 228–9].

102.
CB to EN, 23 June 1849: MS pp.1–3, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 222].

103.
CB to ECG, 27 Aug 1850: MS Chatsworth [
LCB
, ii, 457]; CB, ‘There's little joy in life for me', 21 June 1849: MS HM 2575, Huntington [VN
CB
, 342]. Charlotte had similarly tried to write a poem after Emily's death: CB, ‘My darling thou wilt never know'', 24 Dec 1848: MS HM 2574, Huntington [VN
CB
, 341–2].

104.
CB to EN, 23 June 1849: MS p.3, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 222].

105.
CB to WSW, 25 June 1849: MS BS 70 pp.2–3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 224].

106.
CB to EN, 14 July 1849: MS p.4, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 230–1]; CB to WSW, 25 June 1849: MS BS 70 pp.2, 6–7, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 224–5].

107.
CB to EN, 14 July 1849: MS pp.3–4, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 230].

108.
CB to WSW, 26 July 1849: MS Bon 210 pp.2–3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 232]. The
Quarterly Review
had claimed that if the author of
Jane Eyre
was a woman then she must be one who had ‘for some sufficient reason, long forfeited the society of her own sex': see below, pp.715–18.