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Brontë Manuscripts' notebook

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Brontë Manuscripts' notebook
  • Description:

    Notebook containing manuscript discussion on the truth of the Bible, between two speakers 'S' and 'C', by Anne Brontë (8ff) and copies of the following Charlotte Brontë poems transcribed by her husband, A. B. Nicholls (60ff), the following poems: 'Saul' (ff 1-4), 'Memory' (ff 4-5), 'St. John in the island of Patmos' ( ff6-8), 'The death of Darius Codomanus' (ff9-19), ''Tis the siesta's languid hour' (ff 19-21), 'O! Let me alone he said' (ff 21-24), 'The town besieged' ( ff25-26), 'But a recollection now' (o ff26-28), 'Oh would I were the golden light' (ff28-29), 'Why should we ever mourn as these' (ff29-30), 'Percy's grave' (ff30-36), 'Hurrah! For the Gemini' (ff36-38), 'A single word, a magic spring' (ff39-42), 'Review at Gazemba'(ff42-45), 'When thou sleepest'(ff46-48, 'Is this my tomb this humble store?' (ff49-52), 'This ring of gold' (ff52-57), 'She was alone that evening' (ff58-59), and 'I scarce would let that restless eye'(ff60) Transcribed listed backwards from last page of notebook. The notebook also contains manuscript notes giving details of the mss in an unidentified hand (2ff).

  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2014 14:17
  • Last Modified: 09 Jan 2014 14:17