quently exhausted and drowsy; toward
evening she often seemed better.

'Expectoration accompanies the cough. The shortness of breath is
aggravated by the slightest exertion. The patient's sleep is
supposed to be tolerably good at intervals, but disturbed by
paroxysms of coughing. Her resolution to contend against illness
being very fixed, she has never consented to lie in bed for a single
day--she sits up from 7 in the morning till 10 at night. All medical
aid she has rejected, insisting that Nature should be left to take
her own course. She has taken no medicine, but occasionally, a mild
aperient and Locock's cough wafers, of which she has used about 3 per
diem, and considers their effect rather beneficial. Her diet, which
she regulates herself, is very simple and light.

'The patient has hitherto enjoyed pretty good health, though she has
never looked strong, and the family constitution is not supposed to
be robust. Her temperament is highly nervous. She has been
accustomed to a sedentary and studious life.

'If Dr. Epps can, from what has here been stated, give an opinion on
the case and prescribe a course of treatment, he will greatly oblige
the patient's friends.

'Address--Miss Bronte, Parsonage, Haworth, Bradford, Yorks.'

{183a} The original of this letter is lost, so that it is not possible
to fill in the hiatus.

{183b} Emily--who was called the Major, because on one occasion she
guarded Miss Nussey from the attentions of Mr. Weightman during an
evening walk.

{190} In his next letter Mr. Williams informed her that Miss Rigby was
the writer of the _Quarterly_ article.

{221} In Hathersage Church is the altar tomb of Robert Eyre who fought
at Agincourt and died on the 21st of May 1459, also of his wife Joan Eyre
who died on the 9th of May 1464. This Joan Eyre was heiress of the house
of Padley, and brought the Padley estates into the Eyre family. There is
a Sanctus bell of the fifteenth century with a Latin inscription, 'Pray
for the souls of Robert Eyre and Joan his wife.'--Rev. Thomas Keyworth on
'Morton Village and _Jane Eyre_'--a paper read before the Bronte Society
at Keighley, 1895.

{259a} _Miss Miles_, _or A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago_, by
Mary Taylor. Rivingtons, 1890.

{259b} _The First Duty of Women_. A Series of Articles reprinted from
the _Victorian Magazine_, 1865 to 1870, by Mary