HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HONRESFIELD LIBRARY COLLECTION.

• A rare handwritten manuscript of Emily’s poems, mentioned in the preface to Wuthering Heights, with pencil corrections by Charlotte (est. £800,000-1,200,000
• The well-loved Brontë family copy of a book immortalised in Jane Eyre (est. £30,000-50,000
•  Presentation copies of novels gifted to family friend Martha Brown
• An exceptional letter from Charlotte to her publisher George Smith
• Three letters from Charlotte to her oldest friend Ellen Nussey in 1850
• Two letters from Branwell Brontë to Hartley Coleridge, 1840 (est. £6,000-8,000)
• The auction also offers eleven pages worth of letters written by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell on Charlotte and Haworth in 1853 (est. £3,000-5,000), several of Charlotte’s drawings, including one of their aunt Elizabeth Branwell (est. £5,000-7,000), and charming notes passed between Anne and Emily, including a little sketch of them writing at the table – all of which provide evocative glimpses of life at Haworth parsonage

Read more and see photographs: sothebys/honresfield-library-highlights