Autograph letter signed : [Haworth], to W.S. Williams, 1848 Oct. 2.

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Autograph letter signed : [Haworth], to W.S. Williams, 1848 Oct. 2.

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Discussing her brother Branwell's death; explaining that her sorrow is due not to a "sense of bereavement" but to "the wreck of talent, the ruin of promise, the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a burning and shining light"; describing her father's response to the death of his only son; mentioning her own illness; lamenting that Branwell did not know before he died that his sisters were published authors.

1 item (4 p., unbound) ; 17.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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