Brontës (213 page)

75.
CB to PB, 5Dec 1849: MS p.3, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 301].

76.
CB to Laetitia Wheelwright, 17 Dec 1849: MS BS 72 pp.1–2[
LCB
, ii, 309]; ECG,
Life
, 327–8. Rhadamanthus, son of Zeus and Europa, was judge of the dead and ruler of Elysium in Greek mythology.

77.
Unsigned review,
Times
, 7Dec 1849 [Allott, 149–51]; ECG,
Life
, 326.

78.
CB to MW, 14 Feb 1850: MS FM 8 p.5, Fitzwilliam [
LCB
, ii, 343–4].

79.
CB to WSW, 19 Dec 1849: MS pp.5–6, Princeton [
LCB
, ii, 313].

80.
CB to Laetitia Wheelwright, 17 Dec 1849: MS BS 72 pp.1–2[
LCB
, ii, 309].

81.
CB to GS, 17 Dec 1849: MS SG 30 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 308]. Charlotte wrote thank-you letters to Mrs Smith and Laeititia Wheelwright the same day: see
LCB
, ii, 307, 309].

82.
CB to GS, 26 Dec 1849: MS SG 31 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 317].

83.
Ibid., pp.3–5[
LCB
, ii, 317–8]. The 3 principals are George Smith, William Smith Williams and James Taylor; the identity of P— is not known though he was clearly responsible for despatches at Smith, Elder & Co.'s. Knowing Smith's tastes so well as she did it is probably significant that Charlotte herself acquired ‘the prettiest little pink drawn-silk' bonnet for one of her later trips to London: HAOBP: D141, BPM.

84.
CB to GS, 15 Jan 1850: MS SG33 pp.2–3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 331].

85.
CB to WSW, 19 Dec 1849: MS p.1, Princeton [
LCB
, ii, 312]; CB to WSW, 19 Nov 1849: MS pp.1–2, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 294].

86.
CB to EN, 19 Dec [1849]: MS p.3, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 311]; CB to EN, [22 Dec 1849]: MS in Beinecke [
LCB
, ii, 316].

87.
'P.B.', A Christmas Hymn,
LI
, 22 Dec 1849 p.7; ‘P.B.', ‘Our Church, it is pure and unstain'd', 18 Dec 1849: MS BS x, B, BPM.

88.
CB to EN, [22 Dec 1849]: MS in Beinecke [
LCB
, ii, 316].

89.
CB to Amelia Ringrose, [?16 Nov 1849]: MS p.1, Brotherton [
LCB
, ii, 284]; CB to EN, 16 Nov 1849: MS pp.1–3, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 285]; CB to EN, [9Dec 1849]: MS in Berg [
LCB
, ii, 306].

90.
CB to EN, [22 Dec 1849]: MS in Beinecke [
LCB
, ii, 316].

91.
CB to WSW, 3 Jan 1850: MS BS 73 pp.2–3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 323].

92.
William Margetson Heald to EN, 8 Jan 1850: MS BS ix, H, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 324–5]. The quote was from Robert Burns, ‘On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland', stanza 1.

93.
CB to EN, [19 Jan 1850]: MS p.2, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 324]. Nicholls is said to have presented Charlotte with a
Book of Common Prayer
on the pub-lication of
Shirley
(Rare Book Ritd.775.1., UCL) but this letter implies he knew nothing of her authorship until after her return from London.

94.
CB to EN, [?28 Jan 1850]: MS p.4, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 337]. Nicholls received a more favourable portrayal in
Shirley
than his fellow curates: ‘I am happy to be able to inform you,
with truth
, that this gentleman did as much credit to his country as Malone had done it discredit: he proved himself … decent, decorous, and conscientious' and made the Sunday- and Day-schools flourish ‘like green bay-trees'. Nevertheless, as Mr Macarthey, he still came in for his share of Charlotte's acerbic wit: ‘Being human, of course he had his faults; these, however, were proper, steady-going, clerical faults; what many would call virtues: the circumstance of finding himself invited to tea with a Dissenter would unhinge him for a week; the spectacle of a Quaker wearing his hat in the church – the thought of an unbaptized fellow-creature being interred with Christian rites – these things could make strange havoc in Mr Macarthey's physical and mental economy; otherwise, he was sane and rational, diligent and charitable.': CB,
Shirley
, 634.

95.
CB to EN, [?5 Feb 1850]: MS pp.1–2, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 340].

96.
Ibid., p.2 [
LCB
, ii, 340].

97.
CB to EN, [?16 Feb 1850]: MS Gr. E17 p.2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 346].

98.
CB to WSW, 3Apr 1850: MS pp.3–4, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 375]; CB to EN, 30 Mar 1850: MS 24469 pp.3–4, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 371]. The ‘working man' was John Greenwood (1807–63), a former wool-comber, who became a tea-dealer and stationer in Haworth: he recorded his reminiscences of the Brontës and was one of Gaskell's informants: [
LCB
, ii, 372 n.5]. See also below, pp.912–4, 918–9, 925, 952, 964.

99.
John Berry to the Editor,
Boston Weekly Museum
, 2Mar 1850 [
BST
:16:83:206]; CB to EN, 30 Mar 1850: MS 24469 p.2, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 371].

100.
CB to WSW, 3Apr 1850: MS pp.5–6, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 376].

101.
CB to WSW, 22 Feb 1850: MS HM 24393 p.4, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 350].

102.
CB to EN, [?16 Feb 1849]: MS Gr. E17 pp.5–7, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 347–8]. Most printed sources wrongly identify the rum-bustious parson as Revd John Barber, vicar of Bierley: even though the name has been heavily deleted in the ms it is still clearly legible as that of Andrew Cassels of Batley.

103.
BO
, 28 Feb 1850 p.5.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE SOCIETY OF CLEVER PEOPLE

Title: referring to Charlotte, ‘This was her notion of literary fame – a passport to the society of clever people': MT to ECG, [1857]: MS n.l. [Stevens, 166].

1.
CB, ‘I have never had time for much writing', 23 Jan 1850: MS Bon 124(1), BPM [CB,
Villette
, Clarendon Edn, 753–5]. See also the ensuing 3fragments, MSS Bon 124(2–4), BPM [ibid., 755–64].

2.
CB to EN, [?16 Feb 1849]: MS Gr. E17 p.3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 347].

3.
Ibid.; CB to MW, 14 Feb 1850: MS FM 8pp.3–4, Fitzwilliam [
LCB
, ii, 343].

4.
CB to EN, [?16 Feb 1849]: MS Gr. E17 p.3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 347].

5.
CB to Lady Kay Shuttleworth, [?5Mar 1850]: MS p.1, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 352]; For Kay Shuttleworth see
Dictionary of National Biography
, x, 1138–40.

6.
CB to EN, [?11 Mar 1850]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 353–4].

7.
CB to EN, 19 Mar 1850: MS pp.1–2, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 366]. The house is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public.

8.
CB to WSW, 16 Mar 1850: MS p.3, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 355]; CB to EN, 19 Mar 1850: MS pp.1–2, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 366–7].

9.
CB to WSW, 16 Mar 1850: MS p.3, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 355]; CB to Lady Kay Shuttleworth, 22 Mar 1850: MS in private hands [
LCB
, ii, 368].

10.
CB to EN, 19 Mar 1850: MS pp.4–5, Law, photograph in MCP [
LCB
, ii, 366–7].

11.
CB to Thornton Hunt, 16 Mar 1850: MS Bon 218, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 360]; CB to GS, 16 Mar 1850: MS SG 34 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 358].

12.
CB to EN, [?28 Jan 1850]: MS p.3, Harvard [
LCB
,
ii, 336]; CB to Mr Lovejoy, 5Feb [?5Mar] 1850: MS BS 75, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 339]; CB to Miss Alexander, 18 Mar 1850: MS in Brotherton [
LCB
, ii, 363]. Charlotte still signed the note ‘C Bell' and did not give Miss Alexander the satisfaction of her address or real name.

13.
CB to WSW, [19 Mar 1850]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 364]; CB, List of books from Smith & Elder', 18 Mar 1850: MS BS 23, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 361 and notes]. As this is the only extant list of books in a Smith, Elder & Co. parcel it is worth giving it in full: C.C. Southey,
Life and Correspondence of the late Robert Southey
, 3 vols (the remaining 3were not yet published); Julia Kavanagh,
Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century
, 2 vols; Theresa Pulzsky,
Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady
; T.N. Talfourd,
The Letters of Charles Lamb
; Maria Grey and A. Emily Shirreff,
Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women
; W. Hazlitt,
Winterslow. Essays and Characters Written There
; R.W. Emerson,
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
; W. Meinhold,
The Amber Witch
; Jane Austen,
Sense and Sensibility
,
Emma
and
Pride and Prejudice
; Elizabeth O. Benger,
Marian: A Novel
; William Carleton,
The Tithe Proctor: A Novel Being a Tale of the Tithe Rebellion in Ireland
; Washington Irvine,
The Life of Mahomet
, 1st of 2vols; J.G. Lockhart,
Valerius: A Roman Story
; Grace Aguilar,
Woman's Friendship: A Story of Domestic Life
; Samuel Brown,
The Tragedy of Galileo Galilei
; G.H. Lewes,
The Noble Heart: A Tragedy
; A.J. Scott,
Suggestions on Female Education
; Lady Sydney Morgan,
Woman and her Master
. Virtually all were new publications of 1849–50 from a wide variety of publishers; some were cheap single-volume reprints of earlier works.

14.
CB to WSW, 12 Apr 1850: MS HM 24394 pp.4–5, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 383].

15.
CB to WSW, 3Apr 1850: MS p.7, Berg [
LCB
, ii, 376]; CB to EN, [?12 Apr 1850]: MS BS 75.6 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 384].

16.
Petition from the principal inhabitants of Haworth to the General Board of Health, 29 Aug 1849: MS n.l. [L&D, 43].

17.
PB to the Secretary of the General Board of Health, 5 Feb 1850: MS n.l. [
LRPB
, 195–6]. Babbage, 12, 26–7. See also above, pp.109–10.

18.
CB to EN, [?12 Apr 1850]: MS BS 75.6 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 384]; CB to Amelia Ringrose, 6Apr 1850: MS p.2, Brotherton [
LCB
, ii, 381].

19.
CB to EN, [?12 Apr 1850]: MS BS 75.6 p.2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 384].

20.
LM
, 6Apr 1950 p.5.

21.
CB to EN, [?12 Apr 1850]: MS BS 75.6 pp.2–4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 384]; CB to Lady Kay Shuttleworth, 18 May 1850: MS BS 76 p.2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 399].

22.
CB to EN, [?15 Apr 1850]: MS HM 24470 pp.1–2, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 385–6].

23.
Ibid.; CB to EN, [?24 Apr 1850]: MS Gr. E18 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 388]; CB to Amelia Ringrose, [?28 Apr 1850]: MS p.1, Brotherton [
LCB
, ii, 390].

24.
CB to EN, [?24 Apr 1850]: MS Gr. E18 pp.1–3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 387]; CB to EN, [?31 Jan 1850]: MS p.2, Pforzheimer [
LCB
, ii, 338–9].

25.
CB to EN, [7 Feb 1850]: MS pp.1–3, Kentucky [
LCB
, ii, 341–2].

26.
CB to Amelia Ringrose, 31 Mar 1850: MS p.4, Brotherton [
LCB
, ii, 373]; CB to Amelia Ringrose, 6Apr 1850: MS p.3, Brotherton [
LCB
, ii, 381–2].

27.
CB to EN, [?12 Apr 1850]: MS BS 75.6 p.4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 384]; CB to EN, [29 Apr 1850]: MS Bon 219 p.3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 395].

28.
Ibid., pp.1–3[
LCB
, ii, 394–5].

29.
CB to EN, 11 May 1850: MS pp.3–4, Princeton [
LCB
, ii, 366]; CB to John Driver, 16 May 1850: MS in Maine. For John Driver, formerly of Haworth but now of Liverpool, see above, p.339.

30.
CB to Lady Kay Shuttleworth, 18 May 1850: MS BS 76 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 399]; CB to EN, [24 May 1850]: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 405]; CB to Lady Kay Shuttleworth, 21 May 1850: MS pp.1–2, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 401].

31.
CB to [?WSW], 22 May 1850: MS p.2, Princeton [
LCB
, ii, 402].

32.
Ibid, pp.3–4 [
LCB
, ii, 403].

33.
CB to Mrs Smith, 25 May 1850: MS SG 5b p.3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 406]. The baby-socks (wrongly stored with MS SG 6b, BPM) are referred to in a postscript to CB to Mrs Smith, 9 Jan 1850: MS SG 4b pp.3–4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 327]. Charlotte had offered Smith ‘my excessive sympathy in that painful operation of a “Removal” to which you allude – and a much sincerer sympathy to your Mother and Sisters … for you I daresay have not been allowed to suffer much': CB to GS, 16 Mar 1850: MS SG 34 p.4, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 359].

34.
CB to Mrs Smith, 25 May 1850: MS SG 5b p.3, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 406]; CB to Lady Kay Shuttleworth, 29 May 1850: MS BS 77 pp.1–2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 408].

35.
CB to EN, 3June 1850: MS pp.1–2, Princeton [
LCB
, ii, 408–9].

36.
CB to GS, 18 Apr 1850: MS SG 35 p.1, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 386]; CB to GS, 27 July 1850: MS SG 38 p.2, BPM [
LCB
, ii, 430];
CB to WSW, 6 May 1850: MS pp.1–2, Harvard [
LCB
, ii, 396].

37.
CB to Martha Brown, 12 June 1850: MS Law [
LCB
, ii, 417]; CB to PB, 4 June 1850: MS n.l. [
LCB
, ii, 411]. Though Charlotte tailored her news to suit her recipients, Martha's letter is the only one to say anything more than the bare fact that she attended the opera – she does not even indicate which opera she saw.

38.
CB to EN, [12 June 1850]: MS HM 24471 p.2, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 414]; Smith,
A Memoir
, 92.

39.
CB to EN, [12 June 1850]: MS HM 24471 pp.1–2, Huntington [
LCB
, ii, 414]; Smith,
A Memoir
, 92.