Brontës

by Juliet Barker

  12. CB to GS, 31 Oct 1850: MS SG 41 pp.2–5, BPM [LCB, ii, 491–2].

  13. HM to G.H. Lewes, 10 Dec [1850] [LCB, ii, 527]. See also CB to EN, 26 Nov 1850: MS Bon 229 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 521–2]; CB to ECG, 13 Dec 1850: MS EL fB91 pp.1–2, Rylands [LCB, ii, 532–3]; CB to EN, 18 Dec 1850: MS HM 24477 p.1, Huntington [LCB, ii, 535]. Martineau had invited Charlotte nearly a year before, soon after their first meeting in London, and had reissued her invitation several times since then: CB to WSW, 3Jan 1850: MS BS 73 p.3, BPM [LCB, ii, 323]; CB to EN, 26 Nov 1850: MS Bon 229 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 521–2].

  14. CB to PB, 21 Dec 1850: MS BS 80.5 p.3, BPM [LCB, ii, 538]; CB to EN, 18 Dec 1850: MS HM 24477 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 535]. The Knoll is still standing and relatively untouched by the passage of time.

  15. CB to EN, 21 Dec 1850: MS p.2, Harvard [LCB, ii, 537]. Lady Kay Shuttleworth was near her confinement, Sir James still suffering the ill effects of stress.

  16. Ebba Hutchinson, Diary, 20 Dec 1850–May 1851: MS WLMS H2/3/5(22 Dec 1850). Ebba notes ‘Mr Q[uillinan] & Mima [Quillinan’s daughter by his first marriage] called also Mrs Arnold and Miss Martineau and Jane Eyre whose meeting clashed in the passage making a curious blunder –’. Quillinan may have met Charlotte on her first visit to the Lakes: just days after she left, Mary Wordsworth gave him Branwell’s letters to her husband, as he noted on the wrapper of PBB to William Wordsworth, 10 Jan 1837: MS Wordsworth Trust; see also Edward Quillinan, Diary, 1850: MS WLMS/13/5/8(22 Aug 1850), Wordsworth Trust. Quillinan either sought the letters as a Brontë memento or intended to return them to Charlotte, as the sender’s representative, as was customary after the death of the recipient.

  17. Matthew Arnold to Miss Wightman, 21 Dec 1850 [G.W. Russell (ed.), Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848–88 (London, 1895), 13]; CB to James Taylor, 15 Jan 1851: MS p.3, Texas [LCB, ii, 554].

  18. HM, Autobiography, 350; Matthew Arnold to Miss Wightman, 21 Dec 1850 [Russell (ed.), Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848–88, 13]; CB to James Taylor, 11 Feb 1851: MS p.1, Texas [LCB, ii, 574].

  19. HM, Autobiography, 380–1; ECG, Life, 372.

  20. Ibid.; CB to James Taylor, 15 Feb 1851: MS p.5, Texas [LCB, ii, 554].

  21. CB to WSW, 1 Jan 185[1]: MS Gr. F10 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 542].

  22. Ibid.; CB to EN, 21 Dec 1850: MS p.1, Harvard [LCB, ii, 536–7]; CB to PB, [21 Dec] 1850: MS BS 80.5 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 537].

  23. CB to EN, [1Jan 1851]: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 541]; CB to WSW, 1Jan 185[1]: MS Gr. F10 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 542]. Charlotte mistakenly dated her letters to Williams and James Taylor, both written on New Year’s Day, to 1850 instead of 1851.

  24. CB to EN, [1Jan 1851]: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 541]. See, for example, unsigned review, Examiner, 21 Dec 1850 p.815; [G.H. Lewes], Leader, 28 Dec 1850 p.953 and unsigned review, Athenaeum, 28 Dec 1850 pp.1368–9 [Allott, 288–95].

  25. CB to WSW, 1Jan 185[1]: MS Gr. F10, BPM [LCB, ii, 542]; CB to James Taylor, 1Jan 185[1]: MS in Texas [LCB, ii, 543–4]; CB to ECG, 4 Jan 1851: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 544].

  26. CB to GS, 7 Jan 1851: MS SG 43 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 546].

  27. CB to EN, [?8 Jan 1851]: MS Bon 223 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 550]; CB to EN, [?20 Jan 1851]: MS pp.2–3, Law, photograph in MCP [LCB, ii, 557].

  28. CB to EN, [?14 Oct 1850]: MS Bon 226, BPM [LCB, ii, 483]; CB to EN, [?20 Jan 1851]: MS p.1, Law, photograph in MCP [LCB, ii, 557]; CB to EN, 30 Jan 1851: MS Gr. E20 p.3, BPM [LCB, ii, 566].

  29. Ibid., p.2 [LCB, ii, 566]; BO, 2Jan 1851 p.5. The same notice appeared in the Westmoreland Gazette, 21 Dec 1850 p.2.

  30. ’A Mountaineer of the Wild West’ to CB, pm 10 Dec 1850: MS in private hands. The ‘Wild West’ at this time referred to Ireland, rather than America.

  31. John Abbott to CB, 22 Feb 1851: MS in private hands [LCB, ii, 576–7]. A few years previously, Abbott had met Dr Scoresby, the former vicar of Bradford, who was then on his travels, and had learnt something of his old Yorkshire friends from him.

  32. CB to WSW, 1Feb 1851: MS HM 24399 pp.1–2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 570–1].

  33. CB to GS, 5Feb 1851: MS SG 45 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 572–3]. Redundant paper was then used for lining butter-barrels and travelling trunks.

  34. CB to EN, [?20 Jan 1851]: MS pp.3–4, Law, photograph in MCP [LCB, ii, 557–8]. Smith later gave up the Rhine-tour idea: CB to GS, 31 Mar 1851: MS SG 47 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 593].

  35. CB to GS, 5Feb 1851: MS SG 45 pp.3–4, BPM [LCB, ii, 573].

  36. CB to GS, 8and 11 Mar 1851: MS SG 46 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 582].

  37. CB to EN, 26 Feb 1851: MS Bon 234 p.3, BPM [LCB, ii, 580].

  38. CB to ECG, 25 Mar 1851: MS EL fB91 p.2, Rylands [LCB, ii, 590].

  39. Sydney Dobell to CB, [?early Apr 1851] [LCB, ii, 595–6].

  40. CB to Sydney Dobell, [c.14 Apr 1851]: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 603]; Sydney Dobell to CB, 17 Apr [1851] [LCB, ii, 605].

  41. CB to EN, [?5Dec 1849]: MS 2696 R-V p.3, PM [LCB, ii, 299]; CB to EN, 30 Jan 1851: MS Gr. E20 p.4, BPM [LCB, ii, 567].

  42. CB to James Taylor, 22 Mar 1851: MS in Texas [LCB, ii, 588]; CB to James Taylor, 24 Mar 1851: MS in Texas [LCB, ii, 589].

  43. CB to EN, 9Apr 1851: MS BS 81 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 599–600].

  44. CB to EN, [4and 5Apr 1851]: MS Gr. E21 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 598].

  45. CB to EN, 23 Apr 1851: MS Gr. E22 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 609].

  46. CB to EN, 5May 1851: MS HM 24478 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 611].

  47. Ibid.; CB to EN, 14 Sept 1850: MS pp.1–2, Rochester [LCB, ii, 468]. The second half of this letter is MS HM 24475, Huntington.

  48. CB to EN, [?24 May 1851]: MS HM 24480 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 622]; CB to EN, 5May 1851: MS HM 24478 pp.2–3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 611].

  49. CB to EN, [4and 5Apr 1851]: MS Gr. E21 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 598].

  50. CB to EN, 9Apr 1851: MS BS 81 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 599]; MT to EN, 11 Mar 1851: MS p.1, Berg [LCB, ii, 585].

  51. CB to EN, 12 Apr 1851: MS Bon 235 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 601].

  52. PB to Secretary to the General Board of Health, 12 Feb 1851 and 1Apr 1851: MSS n.l. [LRPB, 205, 207].

  53. PB to Secretary to the General Board of Health, 10 July 1851: MS n.l. [LRPB, 209]. Objectors included the Merrall brothers, William and Richard Thomas, Tobias Lambert and Joseph Hartley.

  54. PB to Revd A.P. Irvine, District Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, 15 Apr 1851: MS BS 194.5 pp.2–3, BPM [LRPB, 208]. See also PB to the Secretary, Church Pastoral Aid Society, 24 Feb 1851: MS in private hands [partial LRPB, 205–6]. Patrick’s letter suggests Nicholls cannot have been as rabid a Puseyite as he is usually depicted by Charlotte and Gaskell.

  55. CB to Amelia Taylor, 12 Apr 1851: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 537]. In CB to EN, 12 Apr 1851: MS Bon 235 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 601] Charlotte remarked ‘I wish Amelia had her business well over and was hearty and happy with her chit on her knee – or yelping in that basinet you are to buy’. A month later she wrote, ‘I wish the female had its nest furnished with the expected nestling – I believe it would then be more interesting – the small egotism rather repels me just now’: CB to EN, 10 May 1851: MS HM 24479 p.3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 613].

  56. CB to Mrs Smith, 17 Apr 1851: MS SG 96 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 603–4].

  57. CB to GS, 19 Apr 1851: MS SG 48 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 606–7]. Gaskell and Martineau are inferred from Charlotte’s description of them as ‘Two ladies – neither of them unknown to Fame – whom I reverence for their talents and love for their amiability’. Gaskell had procured Charlotte an invitation to the Shaens at Crix in December 1850, Martineau one to Sydney Dobell’s in Gloucestershire in March 1851.

  58. CB to EN, 12 Apr 1851: MS Bon 235 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 601–2]; CB to EN, 23 Apr 1851: MS Gr. E22 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 608].

  59. CB to EN, 10 May 1851: MS HM 24479 p.3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 613].

  60. CB to GS, 12 May 1851: MS SG 10b p.3, BPM [LCB, ii, 615]. Charlotte told Mrs Smith ‘I will not say much about about being glad to see you all. Long ago, whe
n I was a little girl, I received a somewhat sharp lesson on the duty of being glad in peace and quietness – in fear and moderation; this lesson did me good and has never been forgotten’: CB to Mrs Smith, 20 May 1851: MS SG 11b p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 618].

  61. CB to ECG, 10 May 1851: MS EL fB91 p.2, Rylands [LCB, ii, 614]; CB to EN, [22 May 1851]: MS Bon 236 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 620–1].

  62. CB to EN, 23 Apr 1851: MS Gr. E22 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 608]. The date of the visit was fixed in CB to Mrs Smith, 20 May 1851: MS SG 11b p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 618]. Subsequently it was brought forward to 28 May so that Charlotte could attend a lecture by Thackeray: CB to EN, 2June [1851]: MS p.1, Berg [LCB, ii, 627].

  63. Ibid.; CB to EN, [?24 May 1851]: MS HM 24480 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 622].

  64. CB to PB, [31 May 1851]: MS pp.1–2, Harvard, [LCB, ii, 625]; CB to EN, 2June [1851]: MS p.1, Berg [LCB, ii, 627].

  65. Smith, A Memoir, 99; ECG, Life, 380–1; CB to PB, [31 May 1851]: MS p.2, Harvard, [LCB, ii, 625].

  66. Ibid, pp.2–3 [LCB, ii, 625]; CB to EN, 2June [1851]: MS p.3, Berg [LCB, ii, 627–8]; ECG, Life, 381. For Forbes’ gifts to Charlotte see CB to WSW, 12 Apr 1850: MS HM 24394 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 382]; CB to GS, 19 Apr 1851: MS SG 48 pp.3–4, BPM [LCB, ii, 607]. As Gaskell points out, Charlotte later used this incident in Villette where Paul Emanuel confronts Lucy Snowe and demands to know her opinion of his lecture.

  67. CB to EN, 2June [1851]: MS p.3, Berg [LCB, ii, 627]; Smith, A Memoir, 99–100. George Warrington was the friend who shared Arthur Pendennis’ chambers and was one of the few good influences on his life in Thackeray’s novel Pendennis (1848).

  68. CB to PB, [31 May 1851]: MS pp.3–4, Harvard [LCB, ii, 625]; CB to EN, 2June [1851]: MS pp.3–4, Berg [LCB, ii, 628].

  69. CB to PB, 7 June [1851]: MS MA 2696 R-V pp.2–3, PM [LCB, ii, 630–1]; CB to Amelia Taylor, 7June 1851: MS pp.2–3, Brotherton [LCB, ii, 633].

  70. CB to PB, 14 June 1851: MS Ashley 167 p.2, BL [LCB, ii, 636]; CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648]; CB to PB, 26 June 1851: MS BS 81.6 p.3, BPM [LCB, ii, 650].

  71. CB to MW, 14 July 1851: MS FM 10 p.3, Fitzwilliam [LCB, ii, 666]. Charlotte qualified her remark by saying that she made an exception ‘in favour of those who possess a large range of scientific knowledge. Once I went with Sir David Brewster and perceived that he looked on objects with other eyes than mine.’

  72. CB to Amelia Taylor, 11 June [1851]; CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648].

  73. CB to Sydney Dobell, [28 June 1851]: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 652]; CB, Villette, 322; CB to Amelia Taylor, 11 June [1851]: MS p.2, Brotherton [LCB, ii, 635]. Consciously playing on the biblical origin of the name Rachel, Charlotte called her fictional actress Vashti after the wilful queen of King Ahasuerus in Esther chs.1–2.

  74. CB to Amelia Taylor, 7June [1851]: MS p.3, Brotherton [LCB, ii, 633]; CB to PB, 14 June 1851: MS Ashley 167 pp.2–3, BL [LCB, ii, 636–7]; CB to Sydney Dobell, [28 June 1851]: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 651–2].

  75. CB to PB, [17 June 1851]: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 640–1].

  76. CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648].

  77. CB to EN, 11 June [1851]: MS pp.1–2, Berg [LCB, ii, 635]; CB to EN, 19 June [1851]: MS HM 24481 p.3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 643].

  78. CB to ECG, [?14 June 1851]: MS HM 26010 pp.2–3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 639]; CB to EN, 19 June [1851]: MS HM 24481 p.1, Huntington [LCB, ii, 642]; CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.1, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648].

  79. Ibid., pp.2–4 [LCB, ii, 648]. Charlotte was also invited to a private viewing of the Earl of Ellesmere’s picture collection: CB to PB, 26 June 1851: MS BS 81.6 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 650].

  80. CB to PB, 14 June 1851: MS Ashley 167 p.4, BL [LCB, ii, 637]; CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.1, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648].

  81. CB to Richard Monckton Milnes, 17 June [1851]: MS pp.1–2, TCC [LCB, ii, 639]; CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648].

  82. CB to Mrs Gore, 28 June [1851]: MS p.1, Brotherton [LCB, ii, 653]. See also CB to Mrs Gore, 21 June [1851]: MS Bon 237 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 644–5]; CB to Mrs Gore, 24 June [1851]: MS Berg [LCB, ii, 647]. For the gift of the book see CB to GS, [1 Aug 1850]: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 434].

  83. CB to EN, 2 June [1851]: MS p.5, Berg [LCB, ii, 628].

  84. Jenifer Glyn, Prince of Publishers: A Biography of George Smith (London, 1986), 45–57; CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.4, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648]; Smith, A Memoir, 15.

  85. CB to EN, 24 June [1851]: MS HM 24482 p.4, Huntington [LCB, ii, 648].

  86. CB to GS, 2July 1851: MS SG 56 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 656–7]; Smith, A Memoir, 95.

  87. J.P. Browne, Phrenological Estimate of the talents and disposition of a Gentleman, 29 June 1851: MS SG 101 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 661].

  88. J.P. Browne, Phrenological Estimate of the talents and disposition of a Lady, 29 June 1851: MS SG 100 pp.1–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 657–9].

  89. CB to GS, 8July 1851: MS SG 51 pp.5, 3–4, BPM [LCB, ii, 663].

  90. CB to ECG, [?14 June 1851]: MS HM 26010, Huntington [LCB, ii, 638–9]; CB to ECG, 18 June [1851]: MS at Harvard [LCB, ii, 641–2].

  91. CB to GS, 1July 1851: MS SG 49 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 655]. The Gaskells rented Plymouth Grove for £150 a year – little short of Patrick’s entire annual income: ECG to Eliza Fox, [?Apr 1850] [C&P, 107–8].

  92. CB to Mrs Smith, 1July 1851: MS p.2, Brotherton [LCB, ii, 654]; CB to ECG, 6 Aug 1851: MS EL fB91 p.6, Rylands [LCB, ii, 677].

  93. CB to Mrs Smith, 1July 1851: MS p.2, Brotherton [LCB, ii, 654].

  94. CB to PB, 14 June 1851: MS Ashley 167 p.4, BL [LCB, ii, 637].

  95. CB to GS, 8July 1851: MS SG 51 pp.6–7, BPM [LCB, ii, 663–4].

  96. CB to MW, 14 July 1851: MS FM 10 pp.1–2, Fitzwilliam [LCB, ii, 665–6].

  97. CB to EN, 31 Dec 1851: MS HM 24487 p.2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 734]; LI, 26 July 1851 p.7. The 2sermons raised £21 3s. 9d. for the Sunday schools.

  98. CB to EN, [?28 July 1851]: MS p.2, TCC [LCB, ii, 671]; Henry Robinson to CB, 23 July 1851: MS n.l., typescript in Brotherton [L&L, iii, 264–5]. Not for the first or last time, Ellen disobeyed Charlotte’s injunction to burn the letter after she had read it.

  99. CB to EN, [?28 July 1851]: MS p.2, TCC [LCB, ii, 671].

  100. HG, 2Aug 1851 p.5; CB to EN, 10 Sept 1851: MS BS 82.7 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 689].

  101. CB to EN, [1Sept 1851]: MS HM 24484 p.3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 685].

  102. CB to EN, 17 Sept 1851: MS MA 4500, PM [LCB, ii, 692]; CB to EN, 10 Sept 1851: MS BS 82.7 pp.1–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 688–9]; CB to EN, [?20 Sept 1851]: MS BS 83 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 94].

  103. CB to EN, 25 Nov [1851]: MS BS 84 p.2, BPM [LCB, ii, 723]; CB to EN, 8Dec 1851: MS BS 84.5 p.3, BPM [LCB, ii, 726].

  104. CB to GS, 8Sept 1851: MS SG 55 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 687]. Charlotte had already turned down the offer of a series from the New York Tribune: Charles A. Dana to CB, 11 Jan 1851: MS in private hands [LCB, ii, 551].

  105. CB to GS, 9 Aug 1851: MS SG 54 pp.1–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 680]. See also CB to GS, 31 July 1851: MS SG 52 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 672]; CB to GS, 4Aug 1851: MS SG 53 pp.1, 3–4, BPM [LCB, ii, 674–5].

  106. CB to EN, [1Sept 1851]: MS HM 24484 p.3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 685]; CB to EN, 5 May 1851: MS HM 24478 p.4, Huntington [LCB, ii, 612]. Morgan was a great Tractarian: having once distributed among the poor of Haworth a Religious Tract Society’s publication which had adopted William Grimshaw’s letter ‘It is well with you’ as a text, he was afterwards beset by people running after him for copies of the tract on his frequent visits to Haworth: Morgan, The Parish Priest Pourtrayed, 42.

  107. BO, 4Sept 1851 p.5. The buildings had cost £1600 and were also used as the church Sunday school: ibid., 30 Oct 1851 p.5; HG, 1 Nov 1851 p.5; BO, 6Nov 1851 p.5. Morgan was still rector of Hulcott when he died in Bath, aged 76, on 25 March 1858: ibid., 1Apr 1858 p.8.

  108. CB to MW, 22 Sept 1851: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 700]
; CB to EN, 3 Oct 1851: MS p.1, Harvard [LCB, ii, 703]. The Ladies’ Book Club in Penzance had been an assiduous supporter of Currer Bell, purchasing each of the novels as they were published: MS Record Book of the Ladies’ Book Club, 1770–1912, TLP (3Dec 1847 Jane Eyre; 8 Nov 1849 Shirley; 29 Mar 1853 Villette; 4 May 1857 ECG, Life).

  109. CB to MW, 22 Sept 1851: MS n.l. [LCB, ii, 700]; CB to EN, 3Oct 1851: MS pp.1–2, Harvard [LCB, ii, 703].

  110. CB to MW, 21 Oct 1851: MS FM 11 pp.2–3, Fitzwilliam [LCB, ii, 704–5]; CB to EN, 19 Nov 1851: MS HM 24485 pp.1–2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 719].

  111. CB to ECG, 6Nov 1851: MS EL fB91 p.2, Rylands [LCB, ii, 710]; CB to EN, [?6or 7 Nov 1851]: MS Bon 238 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 711]; CB to Mrs Forster, 28 Oct 1851: MS in private hands [LCB, ii, 706].

  112. CB to EN, [?11 Nov 1851]: MS pp.1–2, Harvard [LCB, ii, 715–6]; CB to James Taylor, 15 Nov 1851: MS MA 2696 R-V pp.2, PM [LCB, ii, 717].

  113. CB to EN, [?11 Nov 1851]: MS pp.1–2, Harvard [LCB, ii, 716]; CB to EN, 19 Nov 1851: MS 24485 pp.2–3, Huntington [LCB, ii, 719]; CB to EN, 2 June [1851]: MS p.4, Berg [LCB, ii, 628]. For Williams’ opinion of Taylor see CB to WSW, 1Jan 1852: MS n.l. [LCB, iii, 3–4].

  114. CB to GS, [?late Aug 1851]: MS SG 91 pp.1–2, BPM [LCB, ii, 683–4]: ‘this speciality is perceptible only in the slightest degree – quite imperceptible for Miss M[artineau] but it is there – and more or less you have it always’ Charlotte told Smith: ibid, p.2. [LCB, ii, 684].

  115. CB to GS, 15 Sept 1851: MS SG 56 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 690–1]. The repeated phrase is evidence that Charlotte drafted this letter before replying and made an error in copying it.

  116. CB to GS, 22 Sept 1851: MS SG 57 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 699–700].

  117. CB to GS, 20 Nov 1851: MS SG 60 pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, ii, 720].

  118. CB to GS, 28 Nov 1851: MS SG 61 p.5, BPM [LCB, ii, 724].

  119. CB to EN, [?6or 7Nov 1851]: MS Bon 238 p.1, BPM [LCB, ii, 711].

  120. CB to Mrs Smith, 29 Jan 1852: MS SG 12b pp.2–3, BPM [LCB, iii, 13–14].

  121. CB to EN, [?16] Dec 1851: MS HM 24486 pp.1–2, Huntington [LCB, ii, 730].