Sep 24, 2023
A couple of years ago, I wrote about a hundred pages of an original manuscript…and I have no idea where the relevant notebook is. And this week I can’t stop thinking about it, and how I wish I could find it and work on it some more….
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A couple of years ago, I wrote about a hundred pages of an original manuscript…and I have no idea where the relevant notebook is. And this week I can’t stop thinking about it, and how I wish I could find it and work on it some more….
The incredible story of the found manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline The lost manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1884-1961), perhaps the most brilliant and abject of French 20th-century writers, have come to light after almost 80 years in an unknown location. It all began when Céline, feeling the hot soup at the Liberation and not wanting to end up shot with other collaborators, fled on June 17, 1944, leaving behind furniture and…
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Blog - Frankenstein: The True Story
Blog – Frankenstein: The True Story
The Lost Manuscript I published Volume I of The Ice Boat in April, 2o10. It was the first novel I ever wrote and I wrote it in long-hand. I didn’t realise just what a pain in the ass it was gonna be to type it up. In fact a friend typed up nearly half of it for me – free – which is the only reason I published Volume I when I did! Writing it up in long-hand did have some advantages; I could write…
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John Warburton, 18th century antiquarian, collected drama manuscripts but was very careless. He left 50 manuscripts in his kitchen and returned months later to find that his cook had used the paper for lighting fires. Among the losses were plays by Massinger, Ford, Tourneur, Chapman, Middleton and three by William Shakespeare.
In 1835 when Thomas Carlyle finished his first volume on the history of the French Revolution, he loaned the manuscript to John Stuart Mill to get his opinion. Mill's maid mistook it for trash and burned it.
In 1922 Ernest Hemingway's wife lost a suitcase of his early manuscripts at the Gare de Lyons, Paris, as she was traveling to meet him in Geneva. It was never recovered.
An Israeli court has stripped an Israeli family of a collection of Franz Kafka manuscripts, ruling that they be transferred to the country's National Library.
Manuscripts from Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Hardy and more have all been lost to time -- or to a train station thief.