| Berg |
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations |
| BL |
British Library |
| Bon |
Bonnell Collection, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth |
| BPM |
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth |
| BS |
Brontë Society |
| BST |
Brontë Society Transactions. References are to volume, part, and page(s). |
| CB |
Charlotte Brontë |
| CBCircle |
Clement K. Shorter, Charlotte Brontë and her Circle (1896) |
| CBL |
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Margaret Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press); 3 vols., 1995, 2000, 2004 |
| Clarendon |
The Clarendon edition of the novels of the Brontës (Oxford), 1969–92 |
| CP |
The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, ed. J. A. V. Chappie and Arthur Pollard (Manchester, 1966) |
| EN |
Ellen Nussey |
| Fitzwilliam |
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
| Gaskell Life |
E. C. Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vols. (1857) |
| Gr. |
Grolier Collection, Brontë Parsonage Museum |
| HM |
MS in Huntington Library, San Marino, California |
| Horsfall Turner |
See Nussey, below |
| JE |
Jane Eyre |
| Law-Dixon |
MS formerly in the collection of Sir Alfred J. Law, at Honresfeld, Littleborough, Lanes., present location unknown |
| Lowell, Harvard |
Amy Lowell Collection, Harvard University Library |
| Nussey |
The Story of the Brontës: Their Home, Haunts, Friends and Works. Part Second—Charlotte’s Letters (printed for J. Horsfall Turner; Bingley, 1885–9) (the suppressed edition) |
| Parrish Collection, Princeton |
Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library |
| Pforzheimer |
Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library |
| Pierpont Morgan |
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York |
| Ray Letters |
The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Gordon N. Ray; 4 vols. (1945) |
| Rylands |
John Rylands University Library, Manchester |
| Rylands MS Life |
E. C. Gaskell, manuscript of the Life of CB, in Rylands |
| SG |
Seton-Gordon Collection, Brontë Parsonage Museum |
| Smith, ‘Recollections’ |
George Smith, ‘Recollections of a long and busy life’; typescript in the National Library of Scotland, MSS 23191–2 |
| Taylor Collection, Princeton |
Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University |
| Tenant |
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| Texas |
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin |
| WH |
Wuthering Heights |
| Widener, Harvard |
The Harry Elkins Widener Collection, Harvard University Library |
| Wise & Symington |
The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, edited by T. J. Wise and J. A. Symington; 4 vols. (Oxford, 1932) |
| Symbols |
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| <> |
deleted in MS by author |
| [] |
added by editor |
| * * |
placed before and after conjectural readings of phrases deleted by Ellen Nussey |