Best manuscripts lost on public transport (or elsewhere...)

Descrição
There seem to be a surprising number of "lost manuscript" stories in literary history, many of them involving trains. We can't list the ones that were never rewritten here, but it might be interesting to collect the others.
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4,796 membros
55 críticas
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thorold
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thorold: The 250,000 word m/s of the first version was lost whilst changing trains at Reading in 1919
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699 membros
3 críticas
3.8
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Cecrow
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1,286 membros
13 críticas
3.8
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thorold
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thorold: M/s of volume 1 was allegedly mistaken for waste paper and burnt by J.S. Mill's housemaid in 1834.
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241 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.4
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: Lowry claims to have lost the m/s at a friend's house - it later turned up in a rubbish bin.
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2,714 membros
34 críticas
4.1
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: Never definitively lost, but frequently mislaid, and the subject of a posthumous court case after it turned up in a pub
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248 membros
2 críticas
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: Boswell's diaries from the Utrecht gap-year were lost in transit from Holland to Scotland, but his French composition exercises survived.
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19,022 membros
326 críticas
3.9