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Revealing Bronte letter to be auctioned

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20060613
Author:

Lizzie Murphy

A REVEALING and previously unpublished letter by Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, is expected to fetch up to [Pounds]15,000 at auction after surfacing among a pile of papers in an attic.

The 1850 missive to William Smith Williams, her publisher's reader, contains forthright views on literary and society figures of the day and her love of the Lake District.

Bronte writes that during a recent visit to the Lakes, she met her future biographer, Elizabeth Gaskell: "I like her very much; her manner is kind, candid and unassuming, and her conversation peculiarly interesting."

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