B.'
TO W. S. WILLIAMS
'_July_ 21_st_, 1851.
'MY DEAR SIR,--I delayed answering your very interesting letter until
the box should have reached me; and now that it is come I can only
acknowledge its arrival: I cannot say at all what I felt as I
unpacked its contents. These Cornhill parcels have something of the
magic charm of a fairy gift about them, as well as of the less
poetical but more substantial pleasure of a box from home received at
school. You have sent me this time even more books than usual, and
all good.
'What shall I say about the twenty numbers of splendid engravings
laid cozily at the bottom? The whole Vernon Gallery brought to one's
fireside! Indeed, indeed I can say nothing, except that I will take
care, and keep them clean, and send them back uninjured.--Believe me,
yours sincerely,
'C. BRONTE.'
TO W. S. WILLIAMS
'_November_ 6_th_, 1851.
'MY DEAR SIR,--I have true pleasure in inclosing for your son Frank a
letter of introduction to Mrs. Gaskell, and earnestly do I trust the
acquaintance may tend to his good.
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