Poems written by Emily Brontë have returned to the Haworth parsonage where they were penned nearly 150 years ago.
The Gondal poems notebook was taken to Ireland in 1861 after the Brontës had died.
When Charlotte Brontë's widower Arthur Bell Nicholls died in 1907, the manuscript was sold at auction at Sotheby's and was bequeathed to the British Library in London.
It has now been loaned for the summer to the Brontë Parsonage Museum for its "No Coward Soul" exhibition, which focuses on Emily Brontë.
Also on loan is a rare portrait of Emily painted by her brother Branwell.
The work, from the National Portrait Gallery, was once part of a larger painting called "The Gun Group" and was cut out by Arthur Bell Nicholls on the death of Patrick Brontë in 1861. It was later found on top of a wardrobe, together with another portrait by Branwell, by Arthur's second wife following her husband's death.
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