Tong Shu calendar: Why did the original manuscript of "Alice" be hidden for 60 years?

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This painting is the cover of the original manuscript of "Alice's Wandering Wonderland", which is drawn by the author Lewis Corol.

There are more than 90 pages of the original manuscripts of "Alice's Wandering Wonderland". The cover is decorated with beautiful plant branches and flowers on the cover.The author Lewis Corol wrote Alice's adventure story based on a little girl, and later he gave his manuscript to the little girl.

In 1928, the little girl was already a 76 -year -old woman. She commissioned London Sotheby's auction house for auction for this manuscript because of her life.

The manuscript was eventually photographed by a huge sum of £ 15,000, which is equivalent to today's 500,000 pounds.This number set a world record for manuscript auction.After that, the manuscript was taken to the United States. After several times, he returned to Britain in 1948 and was donated to the British Museum. He was later transferred to the British Library.

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