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Emily Bronts diary paper, written on 31 July 1845. Her sketch shows Emily sitting on a stool in her bedroom with her writing desk on her knee, inscribing this paper; her dog, Keeper, is at her feet, and Annes dog, Flossy, lies on her bed.

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Frontispiece: Emily Bronts diary paper, 31 July 1845.

Illustration Acknowledgements

The author and publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce illustrations: Simon Warner for nos..

All the letters in this collection have, where possible, been located in manuscript and newly transcribed for this edition. I am therefore grateful to the trustees and curators of the following collections for permission to publish transcripts of manuscripts in their possession: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library; The Department of Manuscripts, British Library, London; The Bront Parsonage Museum, Haworth; The Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library; The George Dunlop Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University; the Syndics of The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Houghton Library, Harvard University; The Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection, Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pennsylvania; The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; The Walpole Collection, The Kings School, Canterbury; The Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; The Morris L. Parrish and Robert H. Taylor Collections, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library; The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, New York; The John Rylands University Library of Manchester; The Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, California; The Smith, Elder & Co. Archives, John Murray, London; The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, London; The West Yorkshire Archive Service of Calderdale at Halifax and of Kirklees at Huddersfield; The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere.

I am also grateful to Lynda Glading, Barbara Malone, William Self and June Ward-Harrison for permission to quote from manuscripts in their possession, and to Joan Coleridge for permission to quote from Hartley Coleridges letter to Branwell Bront.

Additional Bront letters, for which I have been unable to trace a manuscript source, are taken from The Bronts: their lives, friendships and correspondence, edited by T. J. Wise and J. A. Symington (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 19324), though, where applicable, I have preferred readings from the far more accurate The Letters of Charlotte Bront: Volume One 18291847, edited by Margaret Smith (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995), which was the only volume available when this book was first published. Emily and Annes 1841 diary papers have been transcribed from the facsimiles in Clement K. Shorters Charlotte Bront and Her Circle (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1896). For reviews of the Bront novels, I have used The Brontes: the critical heritage, edited by Miriam Allott (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), and The Bront Sisters: selected sources for college research papers, edited by Ruth H. Blackburn (New York, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1964). Lucy Martineaus letter of 10 December 1849 to her son is reproduced from the transcript in