1702926212000 1702903135000 Standard Record object-110009974 1747159882712 1704298375000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009974 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009974 2e9342f5-c06a-3039-a9a7-4bbff53f2bc6 4 person reference agent-207469 adlib-agent-207469 9ae94b11-d1a3-3ff0-be02-529c75bd6aa1 Nussey, Ellen person reference agent-207471 adlib-agent-207471 04776f17-7d66-300a-9751-7a4e357a01a9 Taylor, Mary person reference agent-207473 adlib-agent-207473 eba94536-205e-374e-9877-ff40219ae005 Taylor, William Waring content description This is a letter written from Haworth, Yorkshire by Charlotte Brontë to Miss Margaret Wooler, dated August 28 1848. The letter is incomplete; it is is 1 leaf (bifold) and mounted in the volume. The leaf has been numbered 5 in the upper right-hand corner according to chronology and its order in the volume. In this letter, Brontë answers Miss Wooler's query, made on behalf of Mrs. Susan Carter seeking to send her daughter there, on the Clergy Daughter's School, which Charlotte attended alongside her late elder sisters Elizabeth and Maria in 1824-25. Brontë acknowledges that the school was is in its 'infancy' when she attended and that it was a 'rickety infancy': she writes of the unhealthy conditions which included an insufficient diet for the students and the spread of various illnesses. However she acknowledges that the school is now 'entirely altered and greatly improved', its location has moved from Cowan Bridge to Casterton, and students are well provided for when they leave the school, in terms of job prospects and being given an 'excellent wardrobe'. She goes onto discuss news of her friends Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor, noting that Taylor's 'active, happy and joyous life' provides a sharp contrast to her 'comparatively dull, uneventful and unoccupied existence'. She discusses Mary Taylor's brother, Waring, and his marriage to Mary Knox. Finally, she discusses her reading, promising to read the 'Life of Dr. Arnold' upon Miss Wooler's recommendation, referring to 'The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., late Head Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford', written by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1844). She mentions she has been reading 'a lately published collection of the Letters of Charles Lamb'. A full edition of this letter can be found in Margaret Smith's 'The Letters of Charlotte Brontë', Vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), pp. 106-108. Brontë(C)/5 1 accession number Brontë(C)/5 110009974 priref 110009974 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009974 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009974 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1848 1848 1848-08-28 reference agent-18451 adlib-agent-18451 44ea0a4f-41b1-397c-9880-2ace1de3d0df Brontë, Charlotte Length mm 181 Width mm 116 MS Letter, Brontë to Margaret Wooler object OBJECT