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Simon T

I think it's someone's edited manuscript... I'm going to go for Virginia Woolf.

Rachel

It looks like the threads on your serger have gone wild.

B R Wombat

Emily Dickinson's foul papers??

Kate/Massachusetts

Looks like a secret code key?

Mystica

Papers scribbled over is my guess.

Harriet Smart

Victorian censorship - Papa's letters revised after death so as not to upset Mama? Wonderful. Dying to know what this is!

Dark Puss

Looks a little like my illegible handwriting, but I'd not bother to cross it out like that. It is likely to be, given your interests, an original MS by someone well known. I suspect it is not Ms Woolf as it doesn't look much like hers - lines are too straight for a start.

Looks nothing like Walter Scott's either. The loops, such what I can see of them look a little like the writing of Robert Burns, so that's my guess.

Simon T

I think she answers to Mrs. Woolf ;)

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