He was to die at the end of a short and blighted life.

But in this year of 1835, all his home kindred were thinking how they could best forward his views, and how help him up to the pinnacle where he desired to be.

What their plans were, let Charlotte explain.

These are not the first sisters who have laid their lives as a sacrifice before their brother's idolized wish.
Would to God they might be the last who met with such a miserable return! "Haworth, July 6th, 1835.
"I had hoped to have had the extreme pleasure of seeing you at Haworth this summer, but human affairs are mutable, and human resolutions must bend to the course of events.

We are all about to divide, break up, separate.