The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 20, May 12, 2002, Article 12

HOW NOT TO CARE FOR YOUR MANUSCRIPTS

  Hopefully Robert Heath's work will find a publisher.
  In the meantime, here are a couple tips on what NOT
  to do with your manuscripts, taken from "Delete, Baby,
  Delete" by Cullen Murphy in The Atlantic Monthly,
  May 2002:

  "In 1862 the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti lost
  his wife, Elizabeth, to an overdose of laudanum; stricken
  with grief, he gathered up his unpublished poems and
  placed them in her coffin.  Rossetti came to regret this act.
  Seven years later he had Elizabeth's body exhumed, and
  retrieved the poetry.

  Historically, the most reliable means of destruction has
  been fire.... One of the grimmest episodes in the annals
  of combustion took place in 1835, when Thomas Carlyle
  asked John Stuart Mill to read a just-completed draft of
  the first volume of his monumental study 'The French
  Revolution'.  Mill took the handwritten manuscript away.
  Some while later he stood before Carlyle, ashen, explaining
  that his maid had accidentally destroyed it while lighting a
  fire.  Carlyle received the news stoically."

     http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/murphy.htm

  [So - does anyone have any anecdotes about wayard
  numismatic manuscripts?   Or "lost" works that reappeared
  years later?  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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