<story><title>Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/darwins-missing-notebooks-returned-to-cambridge-univ-library-after-20-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>My mums incomplete thesis in the 70s required access to some letters and she had manuscript hand written notes from John Ruskin amongst others (iron and gall ink destroys paper. The words etch out black rimmed ghosts).&lt;p&gt;We returned them to the library after she died in the 90s. This  happens without any conscious effort if you file by the volcano method and she had at least two part-time jobs on the go to her dying days, filled with academic paperwork. She had two studies overflowing with books, slides, notes, pictures. You literally had to climb over the piles.&lt;p&gt;The miracle was finding the letters frankly. They could easily have been mistaken for ephemera and destroyed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/darwins-missing-notebooks-returned-to-cambridge-univ-library-after-20-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattxxx</author><text>The resolution here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Librarian:
  Happy Easter
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feels eerily similar to an ending from a National Treasure &amp;#x2F; Tomb Raider movie. In fact, I think we can go ahead and assume that some globe-trotting high jinx occurred. Maybe there was a map to the actual Tree of Life?</text></comment>