Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland

Original object type: Artefact
Title: Letter from Branwell Brontë to Joseph Bentley Leyland
Description:
Letter to Leyland discussing Brontë’s debts with Mr Watson Nicholson, proprietor of the Old Cock, Halifax, and with Mrs Sugden of the Talbot, Halifax, and his hopes for settling the debts through an advance from his friend Dr John Crosby, surgeon at Great Ouseburn and the Robinson family’s physician [Brontë was at this point employed by the Robinson family at Thorpe Green]. The letter also discusses the poor state of Brontë’s mental health.
Letter addressed from 'Haworth'.
Date range: 22 July 1843
Date: 1843