Tiny Brontë Book Returning to England

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Jennifer Schuessler, Tiny Brontë Book Returning to England. New York Times, Nov 20, 2019, at page C3 (in the multi-author column "Arts, Briefly").
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/ ... te-bronte-book.html

Note:
(a) The German surname Schuessler (German: Schüssler) was "occupational name for a maker of dishes and bowls, for example a turner [who tured a disc like record plaer to make dish or vase], from an agent derivative of Middle High German schüssel(e) 'bowl', 'dish' "

(b)
(i) Brontë family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontë_family

section 1 Origin of the name 1830-1852: "At some point, the father of the [Brontë] sisters, Patrick Brontë (born Brunty), decided on the alternative spelling with the diaeresis over the terminal e to indicate that the name has two syllables. It is not known for certain what motivated him to do so, and multiple theories exist to account for the change. He may have wished to hide his humble origins. As a man of letters, he would have been familiar with classical Greek and may have chosen the name after the Greek βροντή ('thunder')." (citation omitted)

(A) About "two syllables." It turns out that the term does not indicates the pronunciation of the terminal e.

For pronunciation, see Brontë
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/bronte
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bronte

Brontë or Bronti? - 2. MobileRead Forum, Feb 3, 2016 (The "- 2" means page 2 of, or continuation from, the discussion at page 1 for teh same topic)
http://www.mobileread.mobi/forum ... t=264483&page=2
(BobC: "All the census and baptism records I have found for the children show simply Bronte, however this may be because of the person recording the event.   Did they ever call themselves 'Bronte,' rather than 'Brontë'? You can't just ignore the diaeresis (ie 'ë' rather than 'e'); it's what makes the word two syllables rather than one! 'Bronte' would be a one-syllable word with a silent 'e' on the end")
(B) Ancient Greek-English dictionary:
* βροντή (noun feminine; Latinization: brontḗ): thunder"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/βροντή

diaeresis (diacritic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)
(section 1 Names; section 2 Diaeresis (but not section 2.1, 2.2 etc)
Appearing in German and Hungarian words only, umlaut also in appearance shares the same two dots above a vowel (but exclusively in letters a, o, u -- never e or i) and indicates that vowel shifts to another pronunciation in a predictable way (eg, über where ü is pronounced same as 雨/魚 in Mandarin.

(c) "The auction capped off a saga that began in 2011 when the museum lost a heavily publicized bid to acquire the micro-periodical at Sotheby's. Instead, the second volume in the series [The Young Men's Magazine (which seems to be one of a kind, not mass produced by printing)] is headed back to the brick parsonage on the edge of the moors where it was created.  The Brontë Society in Haworth, England, announced on Monday that it had acquired the miniature magazine for $777,000 (including fees) at the auction house Drouot in Paris.  'That this unique manuscript will be back in Haworth is an absolute highlight of my 30 years working at the museum,' Ann Dinsdale, principal curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum")
(i) Brontë, Charlotte. Sotheby's, 2011 (under the heading "PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR'" the year appeared in the URL only, not in page content)
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/eca ... rations/lot.46.html
("SECOND SERIES OF THE YOUNG MENS MAGAZINES. NO [number] SECOND. FOR SEPTEMBER 1830 EDITED BY CHARLOTTE BRONTË. SOLD BY SERGEANT TREE AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE CHIEF GLASS TOWN PARIS ROSS GT PARRYS GT WELLINGTONS GLASS TOWN &C &C &C ... FINISHED AUGUST 19 1830  Estimate  200,000 — 300,000  GBP[.]  LOT SOLD. 690,850 GBP")
(ii) Heed "in the series," which explains why Harvard owns "earlier magazines" in preceding (i) -- earlier series, that is.
(iii) Haworth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haworth
(section 1 History: name)

list of generic forms in place names in Ireland and the United Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li ... _the_United_Kingdom
("worth   OE [Old English]   enclosure")
(iv) Brontë Parsonage Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontë_Parsonage_Museum

parsonage
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/parsonage

parson (n; etymology)
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/parson

parson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson
("Today the term is normally used for some parish clergy of non-Roman Catholic churches, in particular in the Anglican tradition")

(d) "it [volume II of this series] was purchased for $1.1 million by the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts, a recently created commercial venture in Paris that — in a gothic twist — closed after it was accused of being a fraudulent investment scheme. * * * The bulk of the purchase price was provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other groups.  The 19-page, 4,000-word manuscript measures about 1.5 by 2.5 inches. It features vividly dramatic hand-lettered ads ('Six young men wish to let themselves all a hire for the purpose in cleaning out pockets they are in reduced [reduced, perhaps because the six were toys] CIRCUMSTANCES,' reads one), as well as three stories set in the fictional settlement of Glass Town, including one featuring a scene that seems to be a precursor to the famous one in 'Jane Eyre' where Mr Rochester's wife [Bertha] sets fire to his bed. * * * Charlotte Brontë created it after she declared editorial independence, as it were, from Branwell’s Blackwoods Magazine, another miniature magazine created by her brother, Branwell. 'Edited by the genius C.B.,' reads the title page of one of those earlier magazines, which are owned by Harvard's Houghton Library, which also holds six other miniature books created by Charlotte."
(i) Gothic
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gothic
(ii) National Heritage Memorial Fund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Heritage_Memorial_Fund
, whose official website (which can be reached by clicking it at the bottom of Wiki page) states, "A resource of last resort, the NHMF provides financial assistance towards the acquisition, preservation and maintenance of some of the UK’s finest objects and landscapes, from trains to artworks, wildlife havens to manuscripts."
(iii) The parentheses and the content within (" 'Six young men wish to let themselves all a hire for the purpose in cleaning out pockets they are in reduced CIRCUMSTANCES,' reads one") does not appear in print.

let (vt): "chiefly British : to offer or grant for rent or lease  <let rooms>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/let
(iv) "blackwoods is a plural form of blackwood"  
"blackwood[:] any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood. Collins Dictionary"
www.memidex.com/blackwoods+tree
, which is the only online dictionary which defines "blackwoodS."
(v) For bed fire, see
Summary and Analysis Chapters 14-15. Cliff Notes, undated
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/lite ... lysis/chapters-1415

Grace Poole was one of the (female) servants in the fiction.
(vi) Houghton Library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Library
("Funding for Houghton was raised privately, with the largest portion coming from Arthur A Houghton Jr [president of a Corning subsidiary], in the form of stock in Corning Glass Works")
(A) Houghton. American Heritage Dictionary, undated
https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Houghton
(pronunciation)
(B) Kate Kondayen, The Genesis of Genius. Harvard Gazette, June 26, 2914https://news.harvard.edu/gazette ... -genesis-of-genius/
("Only about 20 volumes of Brontë juvenilia are known to remain. Harvard holds nine, the Brontë Museum at the family home in England owns a few, and the remaining are scattered among museums and private collectors")

shared captions of three photos: "Nine miniature manuscript books (photos 1, 3), six by Charlotte Brontë and three by Patrick Branwell Brontë, are part of the collections at Houghton Library. The library repaired, rehoused, and digitized the books, which are nearly 200 years old. 'These tiny books help to evoke the whole experience of the Brontë children,' says Houghton curator Leslie Morris (photo 2).

juvenilia (n, which is Latin)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/juvenilia