The 'cut pages in diary' document is potentially one of the more significant recent discoveries in Carroll's biography, because it is a summary - written by one of Carroll's nieces - of several pages in his diary that were subsequently cut out and destroyed. It was published in 1996, and prior to that had been unrecognised, although catalogued in a public archive of Dodgson family papers. The most important diary-entry it records is the one for June 27 1863 that covers a temporary rift between Carroll and the Liddell family. Prior to this find it was generally assumed Carroll's presumed infatuation with Alice Liddell, had caused him to commit some indiscretion, and this was why he became estranged from her family. The 'cut pages in diary document' showed this was not true. Far from yearning for 11 year-old Alice, Carroll's diary for that day recorded that Mrs Liddell - Alice's mother - talked to him about the gossip that was circulating about him and the children's governess (Mary Prickett) and about 'Ina' (the pet name of Alice's older sister, Lorina). It was this conversation with Mrs Liddell that caused him to 'hold aloof' from the family for some time, presumably until the gossip died down.