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

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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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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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Cecrow
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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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thorold
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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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thorold
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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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thorold
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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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