1703097052000 1703088994000 Standard Record object-110009994 1747159882661 1704296461000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009994 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009994 05a89ca4-f6f9-3087-8175-4e7cc57f9cc3 3 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 December 12 1853. The letter is 1 leaf (bifold) and mounted in the volume. The leaf has been numbered 25 in the upper right-hand corner according to chronology and its order in the volume. This letter is incomplete. Brontë writes that Miss Wooler is likely spending the 'long winter evenings' alone like herself. She contemplates the nature of Miss Wooler's solitude and how it might be perceived by others. This was written during a period when Brontë was secretly meeting with Arthur Bells Nicholls and considering his proposal of marriage. This had caused an estrangement with Ellen Nussey, who felt Brontë should remain unmarried, which Miss Wooler attempted to mediate. Brontë writes: 'Do not think that your kind wish respecting E. Nussey and myself does not touch or influence me; it does both; yet I hardly know how to take the step you recommend'. The name 'E. Nussey' has been crossed out first in pencil and then in pen by an unknown hand. A full edition of this letter can be found in Margaret Smith's 'The Letters of Charlotte Brontë', Vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 213-14. Brontë(C)/25 1 accession number Brontë(C)/25 110009994 priref 110009994 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009994 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009994 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1853 1853 1853-12-12 reference agent-18451 adlib-agent-18451 44ea0a4f-41b1-397c-9880-2ace1de3d0df Brontë, Charlotte Length mm 179 Width mm 115 MS Letter, Brontë to Margaret Wooler object OBJECT