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Charlotte Brontë & Sedbergh School association.- Wooler (Rev. William Upton, pupil at Sedbergh School, later vicar of West Wycombe, nephew of Margaret Wooler, headmistress and part-owner of Roe Head School, Mirfield and friend of Charlotte Brontë 1818-85,1848-1938) 2 diaries written as a schoolboy at Sedbergh School, autograph manuscripts signed, 243pp., pencil drawing at beginning of first vol., poem at end of last vol. "Bull's Run", original blind-stamped cloth, gilt, a few ink marks, some slight fading, 8vo, 1865-66. ⁂ Mentions receiving and sending a letter to Aunt Wooler, Margaret Wooler, friend of Charlotte Brontë With a reference to Charlotte Brontë's most famous work: "I again got completely entranced in 'Jane Eyre' as nearly to neglect my work went to the News Room at noon. Finished Jane Eyre at afternoon." Other entries include: The death of a schoolfriend. "Tues 13 June 1865 Pinck [Robert Henry Pinck (1849-65), born at Durham] poor fellow, went out bathing at noon with Rutter & Armstrong & was drowned. I could not believe it at all at first, when I heard it. Armstrong tried to save him but he was frightened of being dragged to the bottom himself, it was at Lord's Dub, there was immense excitement in the town about it. No school in the afternoon. Day went to Hawes to tell his parents." Other entries include, playing cricket and croquet; studying the classics; school life, "Got 100 lines in the afternoon for coming into the school in a illegitimate way viz by a ladder in at the window... ." - Wooler.