"A hitherto unknown fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen has been found in an old 15 kilo box at the National Archives. 'A sensational discovery' and 'His first fairy tale'. (...) In particular the 190 year old pages throw light on the important personal relationship that Andersen as a boy had with the woman he gave the fairy tale to – a vicar’s widow Mme Bunkeflod. Mme Bunkeflod lived in a home for respectable ladies and widows opposite Andersen’s childhood home. She was a woman Andersen visited, read for and borrowed books from as a child. ‘To Madam Bunkeflod from her devoted H.C. Andersen’, the front page of the document reads. »It’s a wonderful little document as art of the history of Hans Christian Andersen. The fairy tale was a present. A present of thanks to a woman whose home had been very important to him«, Askgaard says." (...) The little fairy tale has been hidden for ages at the National Archives at the bottom of an archive box marked: “Plum family”." - Amira

Wowzers. - Micah