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Mrs Smith : Note to Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I was nursing a comfortable and complacent conviction that I had quite made up my mind not to go to London this year ... But Pride has its fall. I read your invitation and immediately felt a great wish to descend from my stilts.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Manuscript: Letter
  

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