WHEN LORRAINE SMITH FOUND A mysterious manuscript in a used copy of Alice in Wonderland, her discovery sent her on a hunt to uncover the document's origins. She'd owned and operated a usedbook shop for 17 years, and never before had one of her titles contained anything like this piece of parchment from 1583.

After we published Smith's story, Atlas Obscura readers started sharing unexpected discoveries inside used books that they'd made themselves. One reader found a soldier's records from theBoer War inside a volume of Alexander Pope's collected letters. Another reported finding a 20-year-old email, printed out, that one of the book's authors had sent to the other. One reader even found"a small slip of paper," which turned out to be "a receipt for the purchase of milk from Offin Boardman-dated April 4, 1776."

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To read the complete article, see:
Tell Us About the Most Amazing Things You've Found in Old Books(https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/things-found-in-used-books)

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
GEORGE KUNZ AND THE EXTRA HIGH RELIEFS (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n49a12.html)
HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS AND THE CARNEGIE HIGH RELIEF $20 (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n50a17.html)