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LONDON (Reuters) – A previously uncharted new by British children's writer Enid Blyton has been discovered, according to a benevolence which bought a collection of the bestselling author's manuscripts at auction terminal September.

"Mr. Tumpy's Caravan" is a news of around 200 typed pages which was initially believed to be a edition of "Mr. Tumpy and His Caravan," a picture aggregation made up of newspaper comic strips, said Kathryn Row of the Seven Stories children's aggregation gallery.

But the charity's archivist looked in more detail and called in an dominance on Blyton.

"They (the experts) are evenhandedly overconfident it's an unknown example of work," Row said.

"We bought these manuscripts at auction terminal September, and the archivist went finished it all. Just before Christmas she had a hunch that this was something quite different," Row added.

Imogen Smallwood, Blyton's youngest daughter, told the BBC: "There's ever fervour when an uncharted typescript is found of anybody's who is substantially known. Because this wasn't modify known about, it has to rank quite high."

The news is not dated, but according to the BBC, it bears the come Old Thatch, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, which was Blyton's home until 1938.

Mr. Tumpy's Caravan follows the adventures of a caravan with a mind of its own.

Blyton died in 1968, and was one of the most flourishing children's writers of the 20th century.

According to her house Chorion, she wrote nearly 800 books which hit been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 500 million copies worldwide. She created a group of internationally renowned series which included mystery and undertaking stories same "The Famous Five" and "The Secret Seven," edifice stories such as "Malory Towers" and the "Noddy" stories for younger children.

Seven Stories' Row said the benevolence could not publicize the newly-discovered work, because Chorion held the rights.

"It is up to them, and at the time there are no plans to publish," she said.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Patricia Reaney)

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