[282] Referring to a present of birds which the curate had sent to Miss Nussey.
[287] A Funeral Sermon for the late Rev. William Weightman, M.A., preached in the Church at Haworth on Sunday the 2nd of October 1842 by the Rev. Patrick Brontë, A.B., Incumbent. The profits, if any, to go in aid of the Sunday School. Halifax—Printed by J. U. Walker, George Street, 1842. Price sixpence.
[288] A little dog, called in the next letter ‘Flossie, junr.,’ which indicates its parentage. Flossy was the little dog given by the Robinsons to Anne.
[325] The originals are in the possession of Mr. Alfred Morrison of Carlton House Terrace, London.
[330] De Quincey Memorials, by Alexander H. Japp. 2 vols. 1891. William Heinemann.
[332a] Agnes Grey, a novel, by Acton Bell. Vol. III. London, Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, 72 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square.
[332b] And yet the error not infrequently occurs, and was recently made by Professor Saintsbury (Nineteenth Century Literature), of assuming that it was Jane Eyre which met with many refusals.
[332c] Mr. Nicholls assures me that the manuscript was not rewritten after his marriage, although I had thought it possible, not only on account of its intrinsic merits, which have not been sufficiently acknowledged, but on account of the singular fact that Mlle. Henri, the charming heroine, is married in a white muslin dress, and that her going-away dress was of lilac silk. These were the actual wedding dresses of Mrs. Nicholls.
[333] Anne Marsh (1791-1874), a daughter of James Caldwell, J.P., of Linley Wood, Staffordshire, married a son of the senior partner in the London banking firm of Marsh, Stacey, & Graham. Her first volume appeared in 1834, and contained, under the title of Two Old Men’s Tales, two stories, The Admiral’s Daughter and The Deformed, which won considerable popularity. Emilia Wyndham, Time, the Avenger, Mount Sorel, and Castle Avon, are perhaps the best of her many subsequent novels.
[335] The Professor was published, with a brief note by Mr. Nicholls, two years after the death of its author. The Professor, a Tale, by Currer Bell, in two volumes. Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857.