bought by the author from the library of J. A. Symington
The Shakespeare Head Brontë. 19 Vols. Edited by T. J. Wise and J. A. Symington. Basil Blackwell, 1932–1934.
The Brontë Society Transactions from Parts 1 to 59.
The Leyland Manuscripts. Privately printed.
And the Weary Are At Rest by P. B. Brontë. Privately printed.
Brontëana: The Collected Works of the Rev Patrick Brontë by J. Horsfall Turner. Bingley, 1898.
The Brontë Papers by C. M. Edgerley. Published as a Memorial Tribute by the Brontë Society. Caxton Press, Shipley, 1951.
Charlotte Brontë by E. F. Benson. Longmans, Green, 1932. (Proof copy, with marginal notes by J. A. Symington.)
The Bookman. Double Number. ‘The Brontës’. October 1904. Hodder & Stoughton.
‘Who Wrote Wuthering Heights?’ Letter from William Dearden to the Halifax Guardian, June 15th, 1867.
Four original manuscript poems of Branwell Brontë and many proof pages of material used in compiling Letters from an Englishman and other miscellaneous works of Branwell Brontë in the Shakespeare Head edition.
other than those bought from the library of J. A. Symington
Emily Brontë by Jacques Blondel. Presses Universitaires de France, 1955.
Manual of Freemasonry by Richard Carlile. William Reeves.
In the Footsteps of the Brontës by Ellis H. Chadwick. Pitman, 1914.
Poems by Hartley Coleridge, with a Memoir by his brother. 2 Vols. Edward Moxton, 1851.
A Brontë Moorland Village and Its People: A History of Stanbury by Joseph Craven. The Rydal Press, 1907.
Passionate Search: A Life of Charlotte Brontë by Margaret Crompton. Cassell, 1955.
The Death of Leyland’s African Bloodhound by William Dearden. Longmans, 1837.
The Brontës: Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries by E. M. Delafield. Hogarth Press, 1935.
Ewood in Midgley by G. Dent. Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society. February 7th, 1839.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by E. C. Gaskell. Introduction and Notes by Temple Scott and B. W. Willett. John Grant, Edinburgh, 1924.
Anne Brontë: A Biography by Winifred Gérin. Thomas Nelson, 1959.
Pictures of the Past by Francis H. Grundy. Griffith & Farrar, 1879.
Anne Brontë: Her Life and Work by Ada Harrison and Derek Stanford. Methuen, 1959.
The Clue to the Brontës by G. Elsie Harrison. Methuen, 1948.
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë. Edited by C. W. Hatfield. Oxford University Press, 1941.
The Brontës: Charlotte and Emily by Laura L. Hinckley. Hammond, Hammond, 1947.
The Complete Works of James Hogg: Poems and Prose. Blackie, 1863.
A History of the Three Graces Lodge. Compiled in 1931 to mark the centenary of its present Charter from the Grand Lodge of England. By favour of Mr Wade Hustwick, Bradford.
The Brontë Story by Margaret Lane. Heinemann, 1953.
Patrick Branwell Brontë by Alice Law. A. M. Philpot Ltd, 1925.
The Brontë Family, with Special Reference to P. B. Brontë by Francis Leyland. Hurst and Blackett, 1886.
The Leyland Family by Mary Leyland. Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society. April 6th, 1954.
The Poetical Works of William Cowper. Edited by H. S. Milford. Oxford University Press, 1934.
A Leaf from an Unopened Volume. An Angrian story transcribed in ‘Derby Day and Other Adventures’ by A. Edward Newton. Little Brown & Co., 1934.
The Life of William Grimshaw by John Newton. London, 1799.
It Happened Here by Arthur Porritt. 1st and 2nd Series. Fawcett, Greenwood, Halifax, 1955 and 1959.
The Brontës’ Web of Childhood by Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford. Columbia University Press, 1941.
Legends of Angria. Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford. Yale, 1933.
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey. John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1930.
The Brontës and Their Circle by Clement K. Shorter. J. M. Dent, 1914.
Emily Brontë by M. Spark and D. Stanford. Peter Owen, 1953.
Haworth, Past and Present by J. Horsfall Turner. Brighouse, 1879.
A Spring Time Saunter by Whiteley Turner. Halifax, 1913.
The Brontës by Irene Cooper Willis. Duckworth, 1913.
The Complete Works of Professor Wilson: Poems and Prose. William Blackwood, 1855.
other than those bought from the library of J. A. Symington
A New Year’s Story. (Transcript for the purpose made by Mrs D’Arcy Hart and Miss O’Farrell by permission of the British Museum.)
The Wool Is Rising. (Transcript for the purpose made by Mrs D’Arcy Hart, Miss O’Farrell and Mrs St George Saunders by permission of the British Museum.)
Percy. (Photostat supplied by the Brontë Society. Transcript made by Mrs St George Saunders.)
Various prose works and poems in the Brontë Museum and Bonnell Collection. (Manuscripts and transcripts shown to the author by kindness of the custodian, Mr Harold Mitchell.)
Various prose works and poems, including Branwell Brontë’s Luddenden Notebook, in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds. (Manuscripts and transcripts shown to the author by kindness of the keeper of the Brotherton Collection, Mr B. S. Page, and of Mr David Masson, Sub-Librarian.)
The Athenaeum, May 3rd, May 24th and May 29th, 1879.
The Mirror, December 1847.
The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), August 2nd, 1935.
T.P.’s Weekly, July 1903.
The Saturday Review, January 2nd, 1886.
The Scarborough Gazette and The Scarborough Herald for the months of June, July and August, 1843, 1844 and 1845.
Morning Chronicle, December 2nd, 1834.
Walkers Directory for 1845.
Directories for Luddenden and Sowerby. 1840.
Freemasonry in Airedale in the Early Nineteenth Century, with particular reference to the Three Graces Lodge. Lecture by Mr Wade Hustwick given in Bradford on February 20th, 1956.
Brochure and Guide to Haworth. Edited by A. H. Preston.
Sowerby Bridge Official Guide.
Sowerby Bridge Centenary, 1856–1956. Illustrated Souvenir.
List of members of the Luddenden Library (established in 1781) and some of the volumes, once at the Lord Nelson Inn and now at the Public Library, Sowerby Bridge (Shown to the author by kindness of the Librarian, Mr S. Robinson.)
The Heaton Family Records (Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford. Letters and extracts from these records sent to the author by kindness of Mr Wilfred Robertshaw, President, Cartwright Memorial Hall.)
The Robinson Family Records. (Permission to inspect deed-box containing letters, documents and cash-books kindly given by Messrs Brown & Elmhurst. Transcript made by Miss Elizabeth Brunskill.)
Death Certificates of Patrick Branwell Brontë, Elizabeth Branwell, J. B. Leyland, Ann Marshall, Edmund Robinson, Sr, Edmund Robinson, Jr, Lydia Scott and William Weightman (all obtained from Somerset House) and of Martha Taylor (obtained from Commune de Koekelberg).
Poll lists for Sowerby in 1838.
Wills of Edmund Robinson, Sr, Edmund Robinson, Jr, Lady Scott and Sir Edward Dolman Scott.
Administration of effects of J. B. Leyland.
Coloured pictorial historical map of Halifax and district, by kindness of the artist, Mr Geoffrey Coning.