1703185209000 1703165912000 Standard Record object-110009999 1747159882706 1704297425000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009999 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009999 c6b7dcab-9b82-3db0-8d0b-fdbad407b414 3 person reference agent-207482 adlib-agent-207482 03a21581-6afb-37b9-8739-e9f12cffa6df Nicholls, Arthur Bell person reference agent-207469 adlib-agent-207469 9ae94b11-d1a3-3ff0-be02-529c75bd6aa1 Nussey, Ellen Length mm 176 Width mm 113 Leaf 2 Length mm 177 Width mm 113 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Haworth, Yorkshire by Charlotte Brontë to Miss Margaret Wooler, dated September 19 1854. The letter is 2 leaves (bifold leaf 1) mounted separately in the volume. Leaf 1 has been numbered 30 in the upper right-hand corner according to chronology and its order in the volume. Leaf 2 follows and has been numbered 30a in the bottom right-hand corner. Brontë writes that she is responding to Miss Wooler while waiting for Ellen Nussey to visit as Miss Wooler has advised her not to write while Ellen Nussey is with her. She reassures Miss Wooler that she is in good health 'except occasional head-aches'. She also says that her father is better and that a recent visitor found him unchanged after many years though she herself feels he is 'undeniably thinner and older'. She says they have had few visitors partly because Haworth is difficult to travel to and she also feels she will not be 'an object of general interest' now that she is married: ‘Ladies who have some prominence (call it either notoriety or celebrity) in their single life – often fall quite into the background when they change their names, but if true domestic happiness replace Fame – the exchange will indeed be for the better. … My own life is more occupied that it used to be: I have not so much time for thinking: I am obliged to be more practical, for my dear Arthur is more practical as well as a punctual, methodical man’. She gives a brief overview of how Nicholls spends his day and says that she supports him in his work. Brontë writes: ‘I believe it is not bad for me that he bent should be so wholly towards maters of real life and active usefulness – so little inclined to the literary and the contemplative’. At the end of Leaf 1 she wishes that Miss Wooler 'had some kind, faithful companion to enliven your solitude at Richmond' with whom Miss Wooler might share her thoughts and recreation. Brontë says that Miss Wooler never complains but 'I know you must miss a privilege none could more keenly appreciate than yourself'. She adds that Patrick Brontë and Nicholls send Miss Wooler their 'kind regards' and that will be 'truly happy' to see her whenever she visits. 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. 290-91. Brontë(C)/30 1 accession number Brontë(C)/30 110009999 priref 110009999 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009999 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009999 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1854 1854 1854-09-19 reference agent-18451 adlib-agent-18451 44ea0a4f-41b1-397c-9880-2ace1de3d0df Brontë, Charlotte MS Letter, Brontë to Margaret Wooler object OBJECT