U.K. Group Raises $20 M. to Acquire Long-Unseen Manuscript Collection

The U.K. organization Friends of the National Libraries (FNL), which provides funding for a network of the region’s public museums, has raised more than £15 million ($20.13 million) to acquire a trove of manuscripts that have been out of the public eye for a century and that was set to be auctioned.
Named The Honresfield Library collection, the cache of documents includes more than 500 manuscripts and letters by 20th literary giants including the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen a