1702926201000 1702913948000 Standard Record object-110009976 1747159882673 1704298469000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009976 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009976 059a6454-80f3-3002-acc6-ccce879ab9c9 4 person reference agent-207472 adlib-agent-207472 4f3c79f9-fd91-3c0b-8106-f6715315edd6 Brontë, Anne person reference agent-207469 adlib-agent-207469 9ae94b11-d1a3-3ff0-be02-529c75bd6aa1 Nussey, Ellen content description This is a letter written from Haworth, Yorkshire by Charlotte Brontë to Miss Margaret Wooler, dated May 16 1849. The letter is 1 leaf (bifold), written on mourning paper, and mounted in the volume. The leaf has been numbered 7 in the upper right-hand corner according to chronology and its order in the volume. In this letter, Brontë thanks Miss Wooler for her offer of her house in North Bay, Scarborough, during her and Anne's stay in Scarborough however declines the offer as Anne, having visited Scarborough as a governess with the Robinson family, has a preference for staying in the North Bay. She writes that Anne has a 'fixed impression that the sea-air will give her a chance of regaining strength' yet Charlotte is doubtful of the efficacy of the Scarborough visit as a cure for Anne, noting that 'she is more emaciated than Emily was at the very last'. Charlotte writes that Ellen Nussey ‘accompanies us by her own kind and friendly wish’ however there is a note on page 1 verso that ‘Anne had implored E to accompany her but C did not know it’. Above this note, Sir Clifford Allbut has attributed this note to Miss Margaret Wooler however Professor Mildred Christian (Newcomb College, Tulane University) has contested that this note was in fact written by Ellen Nussey to whom Miss Wooler loaned the letters for use in a projected edition of Charlotte Brontë's letters. This information can be found in the typescript note of contents (Brontë(C)/37) enclosed with the volume. Margaret Smith also notes that the writing 'resembles' Nussey's ('The Letters of Charlotte Brontë', Vol. 2, 2000, p. 211). 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. 210-211. Brontë(C)/7 1 accession number Brontë(C)/7 110009976 priref 110009976 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009976 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009976 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1849 1849 1849-05-16 reference agent-18451 adlib-agent-18451 44ea0a4f-41b1-397c-9880-2ace1de3d0df Brontë, Charlotte Length mm 177 Width 110 geography reference term-113912 adlib-term-113912 57943df7-dd90-35bc-9f86-40b3475ee412 Scarborough literal Scarborough Scarborough MS Letter, Brontë to Margaret Wooler object OBJECT