Manuscript letters and papers

Item author: J. Horsfall Turner
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Grant Value: 4,707
Item cost: 14,215
Item date acquired: 2001
Item institution: Brontë Parsonage Museum [Brontë Society]
Town/City: Haworth
County: West Yorkshire

The papers of J Horsfall Turner, an early Bronte scholar and founding member of the Bronte Society. Papers include letters to and from Ellen Hussey, Charlottes closest friend and confidante, forty letters to Turner from various correspondents and other material; they help to confirm the provenance of items in the museums collections. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust

Item Provenance
Sothebys July 2001, Lot 58