Excerpt from The Brontes Life and Letters, Vol. 2: Being an Attempt to Present a Full and Final Record of the Lives of the Three: Sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte From the Biographies of Mrs. Gaskell and Others, and From Numerous Hitherto Unpublished Manuscripts and Letters MY dear ellen, - I mentioned your coming here to Emily as a mere suggestion, with the faint hope that the prospect might cheer her, as she really esteems you perhaps more than any other person out of this house. I found, however, it would not do any, the slightest excitement or putting out of the way is not to be thought Of, and indeed I do not think the journey in this unsettled weather, with the walk from Keighley and walk back, at all advisable for yourself. Yet I Should have liked to see you, and so would Anne. Emily continues much the same yesterday I thought her a little better, but today she is not so well. I hope still - for I must hope - she is clear to me as life - if I let the faint ness of despair reach my heart I shall become worthless. The attack was, I believe, in the first place, inflammation of the lungs; it ought to have been met promptly in time. She is too intract able. I do wish I knew her state and feelings more clearly. The fever is not so high as it was, but the pain in the side, the cough, the emaciation are there still. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.