A family who discovered an early 20th-century French bible inscribed with touching handwritten messages near an Edinburgh tram stop while on holiday in the capital say they are desperate to reunite the book with its original owner.
Gemma Stott, 33, was stunned when she opened the velvet bound religious text plucked off a set of railings by stepson Elliot Nellist at Balgreen Road to discover a collection of personalised letter, newspaper clippings and telegrams dating back centuries within.
The missives, written as far back as 1904, are all in French bar one note sent to Bournemouth in 1962, which bears a message in English.
