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  Show caption Charlotte Brontë 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 Mark Brown  North of England correspondent  @markbrown14 Mon 25 Apr 2022 12.30 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A tiny book, smaller than a playing card and containing 10 tantalisingly unpublished poems, is returning home to the West Yorkshire parsonage where it was lovingly written in 1829 by the 13-year-old  Charlotte Brontë . 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, centimetre for centimetre, the most valuable literary manuscript ever sold. Its artistic value is also through the roof. “It is phenomenal really,” said Ann Dinsdale, principal curator of  the Brontë Parsonage Museum . “I can’t quite believe it. I haven’t been able to take it all i...