Rare poem written by 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë goes on sale The manuscript of Charlotte Brontë"s poem, I've been wandering in the greenwoods, is expected to fetch between £40,000 - £45,000. The poem is among a collection of more than 260 other poems and portraits going under the hammer. The collection is the result of 40 years of collecting by the Oxfordshire poet and scholar Roy Davids. Together, the items are expected to sell for up to £800,000. Mr Davids says of his collection's rarity: "It would now be impossible for the present collection to be even approximately replicated." The Brontë children were famously precocious and started writing at an early age, producing literary magazines for their private enjoyment. All the Brontë children wrote in a tiny hand as paper was expensive and in short supply. While the Brontë children would have been able to read what they wrote, their miniscule handwriting would probably have been illegible to their father and their aunt who lived with the family following the death of their mother in 1821. Charlotte Brontë is best known for her novel Jane Eyre but she was also a prolific poet, penning around 200 poems, before she died in 1855, aged 38. The manuscript will go under the hammer on April 10.