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Old record book in which the writer's found archetype (7)

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I believe the answer is:

epitome

'archetype' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'old record book in which the writer's' is the wordplay.
'old record' becomes 'ep'.
'book' becomes 'tome' (tome is a kind of book).
'in which' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the writer' becomes 'i' (the person who is writing these clues).
'ep'+'tome'='eptome'
'eptome' placed around 'i' is 'EPITOME'.

'found' is the link.

(Other definitions for epitome that I've seen before include "classic example" , "Embodiment, type" , "Something embodying perfectly a stated quality or idea" , "ie Tempo (anag.)" , "Paradigm" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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