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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20070619
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It measures just one-and-a-half inches by two-and-a-half inches, but a delicate little book by Charlotte Bronte might soon be visible from homes and offices across the globe.
The collections manager at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, Ann Dinsdale, is pictured with the Little Book by Charlotte Bronte, who was was 10 when she wrote it.
The book, which dates back to 1826 and contains the earliest known manuscript by the author, is among the entries in a British Library competition which will see the Britain's most precious hidden treasures uploaded to the Internet.
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