Lot 376
Death of Charlotte Brontë.- Jameson (Anna) Autograph Letter signed to Mrs. Gaskell, 4pp., 8vo, on the death of Charlotte Brontë, 1855.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
Death of Charlotte Brontë.- Jameson [Anna, writer and art historian, 1794-1860) Autograph Letter signed to Mrs. Gaskell, 4pp., 8vo, Ealing, Easter Sunday [31st March 1855], commenting on the death of Charlotte Brontë, "How shocked you will have been by the death of Charlotte Brontë - I started - & felt as if a light had been extinguished", and thanking her for sending North & South, "I have not yet had time to study the alterations", folds, remains of album stub.
⁂ Elizabeth Gaskell met Charlotte Brontë for the first time in 1850; her celebrated Life appeared in 1857.
Description
Death of Charlotte Brontë.- Jameson [Anna, writer and art historian, 1794-1860) Autograph Letter signed to Mrs. Gaskell, 4pp., 8vo, Ealing, Easter Sunday [31st March 1855], commenting on the death of Charlotte Brontë, "How shocked you will have been by the death of Charlotte Brontë - I started - & felt as if a light had been extinguished", and thanking her for sending North & South, "I have not yet had time to study the alterations", folds, remains of album stub.
⁂ Elizabeth Gaskell met Charlotte Brontë for the first time in 1850; her celebrated Life appeared in 1857.