Mr Brontë's Letters get another review

The Clitheroe local newspaper carries a review of Clitheroe native Dudley Green's two books: Mallory of Everest and The Letters of the Reverend Patrick Brontë. Each book belongs to apparently completely different matters - although deep down both speak of the fights and victories of a man. We are interested in reading how he came to find 30 previously unpublished letters by Patrick Brontë after almost ten years of "collecting" letters by him:

As he continued to conduct his own research, Mr Green visited the Church of England Record Centre in South London where he made some exciting discoveries – previously unpublished correspondence. Eventually, from a number of places, Mr Green sourced some 240 letters – 30 of them previously unpublished.

Also of special interest is the fact that that he wouldn't mind writing a biography on Patrick:

In future Mr Green hopes to continue writing and would like to put together a book about the life of Patrick Bronte. Scholars and literary lovers have come to regard the clergyman as eccentric and prone to fits of temper, as well as controlling, especially of his daughter, Charlotte, but Mr Green believes there is a lot more to him than that and that there is a book waiting to be written.

Sounds like he has the right kind of approach in mind.

While we wait for it we would like to remind BrontëBlog readers of a couple of already published books on the life of this exceptional man:

Man of Sorrow: Life, Letters and Times of the Reverend Patrick Brontë, 1777-1861 by John Lock, W T Dixon, published in 1979.
Dear Saucy Pat: The Life of Reverend Patrick Brontë by Coreen Turner, published in 2003.

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