1703185209000 1703169988000 Standard Record object-110010001 1747159882679 1704297718000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010001 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010001 bb769ab8-1c63-32aa-a2cb-b4379ec74603 3 person reference agent-207469 adlib-agent-207469 9ae94b11-d1a3-3ff0-be02-529c75bd6aa1 Nussey, Ellen person reference agent-207482 adlib-agent-207482 03a21581-6afb-37b9-8739-e9f12cffa6df Nicholls, Arthur Bell content description This is a letter written from Haworth, Yorkshire by Charlotte Brontë to Miss Margaret Wooler, dated December 6 1854. The letter is 1 leaf (bifold) and mounted in the volume. The leaf has been numbered 32 in the upper right-hand corner according to chronology and its order in the volume. Brontë thanks Miss Wooler for her 'kind warning' regarding Mary Nussey's sickness (Ellen Nussey's sister), which she had thought was a fever but is in fact typhus. She says Nicholls is even more thankful than she is as he was averse to her going even prior to this clarification. Brontë wishes 'medical men' were more 'candid in these matters' and she is unsure whether Ellen knows her sister is ill with typhus. As a result, Brontë is obliged to delay her visit to Brookroyd but she is disappointed both on her and Ellen's accounts and also disappointed not to meet Miss Wooler. She would like Miss Wooler to visit Haworth and says that everyone in the house would welcome her. Nonetheless, due to the difficulties of travelling during the winter season, she is 'diffident' of 'urging invitations'. She adds a postscript regarding the Crimean War and 'its horrors'. She says that 'it really seems to me that no glory to be gained can compensate for the sufferings which must be endured' and that 'as we advance towards middle age - nobleness and patriotism have a different signification to us to that which we accept while young' (the Duke of Wellington featuring prominently as a hero in Brontë's juvenile writings). She adds that she still hopes to go to Brookroyd after Christmas and see Miss Wooler then. This is the final letter in this series written to Miss Margaret Wooler and the final letter written by Brontë in the chronological order. A full edition of this letter can be found in Margaret Smith's 'The Letters of Charlotte Brontë', Vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), p. 305. Brontë(C)/32 1 accession number Brontë(C)/32 110010001 priref 110010001 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010001 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010001 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1854 1854 1854-12-06 reference agent-18451 adlib-agent-18451 44ea0a4f-41b1-397c-9880-2ace1de3d0df Brontë, Charlotte Length mm 182 Width mm 112 event reference term-108082 adlib-term-108082 1c5310ee-4d1a-3a9a-98b3-45edd40b2c0e Crimean War literal Crimean War Crimean War MS Letter, Brontë to Margaret Wooler object OBJECT