Taylor. 1870.

{262} See letter to Ellen Nussey, page 78.

{275} Miss Bronte was paid 1500 pounds in all for her three novels, and
Mr. Nicholls received an additional 250 pounds for the copyright of _The
Professor_.

{280} A Mr. Hodgson is spoken of earlier, but he would seem to have been
only a temporary help.

{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 Bronte, 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 auth