He lost the manuscript after a long drinking session while on leave in San Francisco.
Nevertheless, those were dark times – getting my hopes up for one manuscript after another and having them dashed.
In the summer of 1950, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. turned down the English-language rights to a Dutch manuscript after receiving a particularly harsh reader's report.
As Swafford recognizes, too much is made of the hoary anecdote of Beethoven striking Napoleon's name from the manuscript after hearing that the leader had crowned himself emperor.
Of the five series of sonnets, the first two appeared in Poems in 1860, and the others, found in manuscript after his death, were not published till 1931.
The fate of the manuscript after the war is unknown, although many items were taken back to the Soviet Union by the Red Army, said Alan Brill, a professor at Yeshiva University.
On a typical publishing schedule, a writer may take a year or more to deliver a manuscript, after which the publisher takes another nine months to a year to put finished books in stores.
… Called the Voynich manuscript after the rare-book dealer who stumbled upon it a century ago – [it's] written in an unknown script, with an alphabet that appears nowhere other than in its pages.
In this tightly plotted thriller, a scientist's disaffected son finds a strange manuscript after his father's death containing the secret of invisibility, and he embarks on a journey of painful self-knowledge.
That's because the book — called the Voynich manuscript after the rare-book dealer who stumbled upon it a century ago — is written in an unknown script, with an alphabet that appears nowhere other than in its pages.
You'd have to follow her home for the night and back to the office the next morning — because it is during her daily commute that Ms. Hochman, 56, goes about the business of poring over unpublished manuscript after unpublished manuscript.
