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In 2016, Smith published a book about the discovery, and the information she gathered, called Journey of a Lost Manuscript, and is coming to Bannockburn Library on Tuesday 21 November to speak all about the document\u2019s travels.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy talk is about what I found out, how I found it out, and there\u2019s humour all the way through,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t usually get many questions, because people sit there looking as if they\u2019re stunned.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really quite an incredible story, and there are so many lucky breaks that I had, and coincidences. When I thought I\u2019d given up, I\u2019d get another clue and go again.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has delivered 300 talks within the last seven years, and said she still gets a \u201ckick out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI love it,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI\u2019ve done lots of talks in Melbourne, and for Probus clubs, but I really love the library talks because people have come there because they want to hear the story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next year, Smith is travelling to England to return the document to the West Yorkshire Archives, the same place where it came from.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has more meaning over there, rather than here,\u201d she said. Register for the talk at bit.ly\/49C54mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IN 2014, a customer browsing Lorraine Smith\u2019s Warrnambool bookshop found an unusual artefact hidden in the pages of a copy of Alice in Wonderland. \u201cI didn’t know what to do with it,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019d try and read it, but I could barely tell if it was in English. \u201cI was talking with our daughter […]<\/p>\n