Tiny manuscript by 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte returns home to Yorkshire

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The 15-page manuscript, smaller than a playing card, is dated December 1829

Its buyers have said it is “inch for inch, possibly the most valuable literary manuscript ever to be sold”.Its whereabouts – and even its survival – were unknown until it was unveiled in New York earlier this year.

She said: “It is always emotional when an item belonging to the Bronte family is returned home and this final little book coming back to the place it was written when it had been thought lost is very special for us.” They wrote adventure stories, dramas and verse in hand-made manuscript books filled with tiny handwriting intended to resemble print.

It is well known in the world of Bronte scholarship, and is mentioned in Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life Of Charlotte Bronte .

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