Charlotte Brontë’s $1.25m ‘little book’ of 10 poems returns home

Manuscript entitled A Book of Ryhmes (sic) measures 10cm by 6cm and was written by the author when she was 13

A tiny book, smaller than a playing card and containing 10 tantalisingly unpublished poems, is returning home to the West Yorkshire parsonage where it was lovingly written in 1829 by the 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte.

Thought lost, it was bought in New York for $1.25m (1m) with Haworth in mind and given it measures just 10cm by 6cm it is probably the most valuable literary manuscript ever sold.