A mini manuscript written by novelist Charlotte Bronte when she was 13 will be returned to her home in Yorkshire after being bought for $1.25 million
The 15-page manuscript, smaller than a playing card, is dated December 1829. Its buyers say inch for inch, it is"possibly the most valuable literary manuscript ever to be sold".The titles of the 10 poems have long been known, but the poems themselves have never been published, photographed, transcribed or even summarised.
The 15-page manuscript, which is smaller than a playing card, contains 10 poems and was the last of more than two dozen of the famous 'little books' known to be in private hands. It has been bought by a British literary charity, Friends of the National Libraries , after surfacing for the first time in more than a century.The miniature manuscript was last seen at auction in 1916 in New York, where it sold for $520
Its buyers have said the manuscript, dated December 1829 and measuring 3.8 x 2.5ins , is"inch for inch, possibly the most valuable literary manuscript ever to be sold". The miniature books created by Charlotte Bronte and her siblings as children have long been objects of fascination for Bronte scholars and fans.The manuscript is stitched in its original brown paper covers and is entitled A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Bronte, Sold by Nobody, and Printed by Herself.More on Literature
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