The daughter of a Nottinghamshire woman whose 1940s notebook was found in a toy shop in Pakistan has said she was "very emotional" upon learning of its existence.
The journal, which contained an inscription saying it was owned by Jean Bellamy, who lived in Carnarvon Street in Netherfield, was found in Rawalpindi about nine years ago by poet Ateeq Ahmed.
He posted about the notebook on a Nottinghamshire Community Facebook page, and said it was his "dream" to return it to the owner or her family.
Alexandra Whittaker, Jean's daughter, found out about her late mother's notebook after receiving a phone call from a genealogist and now hopes to be reunited with it.
Jean, who was born in 1931, married Philip Price, and the couple lived in Nottinghamshire together. Jean died in 1997 and Philip passed away last year.
Alexandra believes the notebook may have been among belongings donated to the charity shop when the couple moved house, but she has "no idea" how it came to be in Pakistan.
Alexandra, who lives in West Bridgford and works as a screening assistant for the NHS, said her mother was a "lovely and very calm person" who gave up her job as an accountant once she had children and used her lifelong love of cricket to help arrange fixtures around the county.
"People who needed a fixture at the last minute at the weekends would ring, and mum would fix them up - it was a bit like Blind Date for cricket," she said.
"She just loved talking to people - she was a quiet, private person, but she liked being out and about."
The 60-year-old knew "absolutely nothing" about the notebook until reading an article on the BBC website, but said it would be one of a few items from her mother's childhood.
"All I know is when she was young she had scarlet fever, so everything had to be burned to stop infection spreading," she said.
"I'm presuming this was after then, but I didn't know it existed - she never mentioned it, it was never talked about, so it's come completely out of the blue."
Alexandra told the BBC it was "amazing" to learn the notebook had been discovered, but said the family had no links to Pakistan.
"Canada, that might have made more sense, because she had an uncle who worked on the railway in Canada,[but] nothing ever to do with Pakistan; that is completely left-field," she said.
"It's very emotional to think that something I didn't know existed somebody had got on the other side of the world,and that they had taken the trouble to want to reconnect it with us is really lovely."
Alexandra said having a rare keepsake from her mother's youth would be special for the family.
"My daughter was not quite one when my mum died,so she doesn't remember her at all,so that would be really nice for that connection to be made," she said.
"It's going to be really lovely to have that—it's almost a bit of a missing link."