Emily Brontë's handwritten poems are highlight of 'lost library' auction | Manuscripts and letters
Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 08.37 EDT An âincredibly rareâ handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontëâs poems, with pencil corrections by her sister Charlotte, is going up for auction as part of a âlost libraryâ that has been out of public view for nearly a century. The collection was put together by Arthur Bell Nicholls, the widower of Charlotte, who of the six Brontë children lived the longest, dying in 1855 at the age of 38. Nicholls sold the majority of the surviving Brontë manuscripts in 1895 to the notorious bibliophile and literary forger Thomas James...
Source: theguardian.com