The letters were among a collection loaned by Nussey to Bronte's biographer Elizabeth Gaskell in 1857.
BBC: Bronte letters returning to Haworth after ?185,000 sale
Blanketing the cliff tops south of Bronte with views to-die-for (literally), the gravestones of Waverley Cemetery dazzle in the sunlight.
Volunteers had worked for 12 years to restore the cemetery and chapel where young Patrick Bronte once preached against Napoleon.
They will be returned to the Jane Eyre author's former home in Haworth, which is now the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
BBC: Bronte letters returning to Haworth after ?185,000 sale
Now a blogger, John Hempton of Bronte Capital, has revealed that he set up a fake profile on girlsdateforfree.com - a Cupid Plc site.
The novels of Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, the plays of Samuel Beckett washed down with the poetry of Shelley were my teachers.
Bronte also lays claims to the oldest surf lifesaving club in the world (1903), an iconic claim in the city that mythologized lifesavers well before David Hasselhoff.
Many also admit to wrongly claiming to have read the classics, including authors Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.
As well as removing slabs from the Bronte Way that links points of Bronte interest across the moor land that inspired Wuthering Heights, graves had been attacked.
He said the "Hardy country" brand was boosting tourism in the same way Bath and West Yorkshire benefited from connections with Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.
Bronte's closest confidante Ellen Nussey, who she met as a pupil at Roe Head school in 1831, is the recipient of all but one of the six letters.
BBC: Bronte letters returning to Haworth after ?185,000 sale
He won the role after attending auditions advertised on a Jobcentre wall and was the first black actor to play the role in a film based on Emily Bronte's novel.
Blogger John Hempton, of Bronte Capital, set up a fake profile on girlsdateforfree.com that he deliberately made as unattractive as possible to test what kind of reaction he would receive.
Sadly, another Bronte letter was pulled from auction (the audience is typically not told why) and the third passed (that means it failed to meet the reserve set by the seller).
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Although Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are closely associated with the parsonage a few miles away in Haworth they were born in Thornton where their father earned his living from 1815 to 1820.
"The Brontes grew up used to seeing their father's books on the shelves of the parsonage, " says Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in the family's former home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
Two of the three new wards, Craven and Ilkley, are mighty Conservative strongholds, and the third, the picturesque and tourist-dependent Worth Valley, (which boasts the Bronte's Haworth), is usually staunchly Tory in local elections.
The Full Monty, based on the British film, A Class Act, a celebration of the life of songwriter Ed Kleban, and Jane Eyre, based on the Charlotte Bronte novel, are the other three nominations in the best musical category.
Two Wall Street short sellers, Citron Research and Bronte Capital published negative blog posts today about China MediaExpress (CCME), a company that more than doubled its revenues last year and trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.
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BBC: Bronte letters returning to Haworth after ?185,000 sale
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