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

Description
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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4,760 membres
55 critiques
4
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: The 250,000 word m/s of the first version was lost whilst changing trains at Reading in 1919
2
696 membres
2 critiques
3.8
Member
Cecrow
3
1,267 membres
12 critiques
3.8
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: M/s of volume 1 was allegedly mistaken for waste paper and burnt by J.S. Mill's housemaid in 1834.
4
242 membres
1 critique
½ 3.4
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Lowry claims to have lost the m/s at a friend's house - it later turned up in a rubbish bin.
5
2,699 membres
34 critiques
4.1
Member
thorold
Explications
thorold: Never definitively lost, but frequently mislaid, and the subject of a posthumous court case after it turned up in a pub
6
Member
thorold
Explications
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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18,752 membres
321 critiques
3.9