'--Ellen Nussey to Mrs. Gaskell, April 16th, 1859.
{19} 'To this bold statement (i.e. that love-letters were found in
Branwell's pockets) Martha Brown gave to me a flat contradiction,
declaring that she was employed in the sick room at the time, and had
personal knowledge that not one letter, nor a vestige of one, from the
lady in question, was so found.'--Leyland. _The Bronte Family_, vol. ii.
p. 284.
{22} Mrs. Gaskell had described Charlotte Bronte's features as 'plain,
large, and ill-set,' and had written of her 'crooked mouth and large
nose'--while acknowledging the beauty of hair and eyes.
{25} Mrs. Lawry of Muswell Hill, to whose courtesy in placing these and
other papers at my disposal I am greatly indebted.
{28} 'Patrick Branty' is written in another handwriting in the list of
admissions at St. John's College, Cambridge. Dr. J. A. Erskine Stuart,
who has a valuable note on the subject in an article on 'The Bronte
Nomenclature' (Bronte Society's Publications, Pt. III.), has found the
name as Brunty, Bruntee, Bronty, and Branty--but never in Patrick
Bronte's handwriting. There is, however, no signature of Mr. Bronte's
extant prior to 1799.
{29} 'I translated this' (_i.e._ an Irish romance) 'from a manuscript in
my possession made by one Patrick O'Prunty, an ancestor probably of
Charlotte Bronte, in 1763.
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