{"admin":{"added":1703012597000,"created":1702996984000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110009981","indexed":1747159882660,"modified":1704298744000,"processed":1747159409017,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110009981","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009981","uuid":"36b179a9-808d-3c93-9b8a-91a866d704fd","version":3},"content":{"description":[{"type":"content description","value":"This is a letter written from Haworth, Yorkshire by Charlotte Bront\u00eb to Miss Margaret Wooler, dated January 20 1851. However another hand has amended the date to 1852. The letter is 1 leaf (bifold) and mounted in the volume. The leaf has been numbered 12 in the upper right-hand corner according to chronology and its order in the volume.  \n\nIn this letter, Bront\u00eb apologises for her late response, explaining that she has been unwell. She writes she recovered during a visit from Ellen Nussey but worsened after her friend's departure. Her doctor diagnosed her headache as originating from 'inertness in the liver' and prescribed 'alternative pills'. These 'alternative pills' are discovered to contain mercury as Bront\u00eb's health worsens after consuming them and she develops the symptoms of mercury poisoning. Her doctor is surprised as he did not anticipate this amount of mercury would produce a response. She also discusses Miss Wooler's distress at the possibility that Mr. Thomas, her younger brother, will go to America, 'with all his natural sensitivities and retiring diffidence'. She asks for news of Mrs. Moore, a relative of Margaret Wooler's, and her family and sends Miss Wooler good wishes for the new year, \n\nA full edition of this letter can be found in Margaret Smith's 'The Letters of Charlotte Bront\u00eb', Vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 10-11."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Bront\u00eb(C)\/12","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Bront\u00eb(C)\/12"},{"priref":"110009981","type":"priref","value":"110009981"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009981","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009981"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1852,"latest":1852,"note":[{"value":"Dated January 20 1851 however this has been amended by another hand to 1852"}],"value":"1852-01-20"}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-18451","uid":"adlib-agent-18451","uuid":"44ea0a4f-41b1-397c-9880-2ace1de3d0df"},"summary_title":"Bront\u00eb, Charlotte"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","units":"mm","value":"182"},{"dimension":"Width","units":"mm","value":"114"}]},"summary_title":"MS Letter, Bront\u00eb to Margaret Wooler","title":[{"value":"MS Letter, Bront\u00eb to Margaret Wooler"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}