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Can the British Library be trusted? I suppose the answer is 'sometimes'...

The New York Times reports via the BBC that "The British Library has admitted that a historic diary was damaged while in its care, but refused to confirm reports that the manuscript, which recorded preparations for the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, had been left in the trunk of a car."

The diary, written by Thomas Tyldesley had been entrusted to the library in 1994 by its owner, descendant Peter J. Tyldesley, who said he believed it would be safer there than in his home.