PRAGUE (AP) — Unknown musings of the founding father of an independent Czechoslovakia, its first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, are believed to have been unearthed.

An envelope, whose existence was unknown to living members of the family, was unveiled in a live broadcast on Friday, with President Petr Pavel in attendance, as speculation swirled about what it may contain.

It was believed Masaryk dictated his thoughts to his son Jan some 90 years ago, when he thought he was dying and was confined to bed at the presidential palace in the municipality of Lány after suffering the latest in a series of strokes.

Antonín Sum, Jan’s former secretary, handed over a sealed envelope to the National Archive in 2005 with a request that it shouldn’t be opened for another 20 years, a condition he s

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