Historic library connected to Brontë family saved for the nation in £15.3m purchase with help from Britain’s richest man
The Honresfield Library of British Literature, containing more than 500 manuscripts, first editions and letters including works by the Brontë family, Robert Burns and Walter Scott, has been purchased by the Friends of the National Libraries for £15.3m.
It had been due to be auctioned across three sales by Sotheby’s with the first planned in July. Howe…