urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00969 Ellen Nussey: An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Michael Ramsey Harry Ransom Center, 2011 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 12 May 2011 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Nussey, Ellen, 1817-1897 Ellen Nussey Collection 1832-1899, undated 1 box (.42 linear feet) Includes letters written and received by Ellen Nussey, a lifelong friend and correspondent of British author Charlotte Brontë, as well as Nussey’s pocket diary from 1844 and a lock of Brontë’s hair. English Manuscript Collection MS-3064 Access:

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 Container List Letters: 1.1 AN / draft and copy no recipient, 26 July 1895. 1.1 2 AN / fragments no recipient, undated. 1.1 ALS to Duclaux, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Mme., 24 July 1883. 1.1 ALS to Nicholls, Mr., undated. 1.1 1.1 ALS to Nussey, Antony, 12 October 1889. 1.1 ALS to Scribner, Charles, esq., 16 June 1891. 1.1 AL / incomplete to Scribner, Charles, 20 June 1892. 1.2 4 ALS to Scruton, William, 1885-1888. Tipped into a copy of Bronte Society Transactions, March 1898. 1.1 AL / incomplete to Shorter, Clement King, April 1895. 1.1 AL to the editor of The Standard, undated. 1.1 Handwritten memo / fragment of draft & copy, 18 July 1894. Miscellaneous: 1.3 Brontë, Charlotte. A lock of Brontë’s hair included with ALS from Scruton, William to Pollard, Collingwood, November? 1899. 1.6 Nussey, Ellen. Pocket diary, handwritten entries on 32 pages of small printed diary, 1 January to 5 October 1844. Loosely laid in: 2 of Nussey's calling cards. 1.4-5 Taylor, Mary. 5 ALS to Nussey, Ellen, 1832-1842, undated. (All items from the Stark Collection.)