The original handwritten text is be put on public view to mark a new adaptation of the great novel.
The beginning of the novel, as narrated by Pip, and a boxed-in and crossed-out section reveals changes made by Dickens to the novel's ending
The original 1861 text, in the author's "spidery" handwriting, spends most of its time in the vault at Wisbech and Fenland Museum in Cambridgeshire."The public can come and see the real thing in its sealed case and marvel at Dickens' many changes and crossings out," said curator Robert Bell. The museum said this showed how he changed the plot after advice from a friend, to make the ending more ambiguous.
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