Bell would be obliged to you to post the enclosed note in London.

It is an answer to the letter you forwarded, which contained an application for their autographs from a person who professed to have read and admired their poems.

I think I before intimated, that the Messrs.
Bell are desirous for the present of remaining unknown, for which reason they prefer having the note posted in London to sending it direct, in order to avoid giving any clue to residence, or identity by post-mark, &c." Once more, in September, she writes, "As the work has received no further notice from any periodical, I presume the demand for it has not greatly increased." In the biographical notice of her sisters, she thus speaks of the failure of the modest hopes vested in this publication.

"The book was printed; it is scarcely known, and all of it that merits to be known are the poems of Ellis Bell.
"The fixed conviction I held, and hold, of the worth of these poems, has not, indeed, received the confirmation of much favourable criticism; but I must retain it notwithstanding." FOOTNOTES: {1} A reviewer pointed out the discrepancy between the age (twenty-seven years) assigned, on the mural tablet, to Anne Bronte at the time of her death in 1849, and the alleged fact that she was born at Thornton, from which place Mr.Bronte removed on February 25th, 1820.

I was aware of the discrepancy, but I did not think it of sufficient consequence to be rectified by an examination of the register of births.