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PREFACE.
as will be seen from a glance at the facsimiles of two of its pages which serve to illustrate the present book. It extends to nineteen crown octavo pages, the first seventeen and a half of which are devoted to the longer poem, the remaining two and a half being occupied by the forty Lines. Both Self-Communion and the Lines are initialed by Anne, and marked with the dates upon which they were severally completed. In the case of the former, Anne has added at the commencement, below the title, “Begun Nov. 1847.”
The holograph was recovered by the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls from among his wife’s (Charlotte’s) papers, and was preserved by him until some give years or so ago, when it passed with other Brontë documents into my possession.
Thomas J. Wise.
