 It found its way into the possession of a family called Nutt, but it is not known how.There it was discovered on a shelf in the family house by a 14-year-old girl, later Dee Cooper, who instigated its publication.As Gillian Avery points out in her introduction, it is all the more interesting and informative because it was not an assignment given by an adult, but a private diary containing "all the matters that are usually forgotten by the time the mature adult adult comes to write memoirs."