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A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of Virginia Wolf. More than 80 years after her death,

a new Wolf book has been published this week, a collection of three comic stories written eight years

before her first novel. Malcolm Brabant reports from England for our arts and culture series,

Canvas. For 80 years, what's being hailed as a literary treasure was buried in the archives

of Longleet, one of Britain's finest stately homes. Longleet contains historic artefacts dating back

1,300 years, and they're under the stewardship of archivist Emma Chalynallinall.

It's definitely an exciting thing. Maybe not exactly, as you'd imagine, an Indiana Jones scene.

We didn't, for instance, have to dig you know, dig through a secret tunnel and fight

through cobwebs. The volume itself was on a shelf. We knew where it was. We had it cataloged and we knew

who was by, for instance, where it had come from. But I suppose it took an intrepid researcher

like O'Miller to fully understand the significance of the work and that really is the great discovery and that's the treasure.

Professor O'Mila Seshigiri was the expert who recognised the book's value.

She teaches English and humanities at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

My heart was beating very fast as I walked up that staircase because I had been waiting four

years to see this type script and I was consumed by curiosity and this desire to know whether

this was an original work.

And when the archivist handed me the document box and I opened it and I saw just from the first

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