Excerpt from Patrick Branwell Brontë

And rancorous contempt, is futile, abuse is not argument. It remains, therefore, in the interests of literary justice that Bramwell's claim Should be carefully examined, as I have endeavoured, how ever inadequately, to examine it in the following pages, and I venture to submit the accumulated evidence which has been brought to light Since Mr. Leyland's day to the unbiassed judgment Of my readers.

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