On one manuscript of the Rondo-Burleske, the savagely sardonic Scherzo of the Ninth, he wrote the dedication "To my brothers in Apollo," mocking the idea of a musical fraternity.
One manuscript based on this data set has already been published.
So when I became sales director at David Fickling Books, which I am as well as being an author, and spotted Mal's new book on our list, there was only one manuscript I was ever going to read first; The Murdstone Trilogy.
The regret is real, though it may vary from one manuscript to the next.
"This is a biography of the Prophet Muhammad," he said, gingerly lifting one manuscript bound in crumbling leather.
Nevertheless, those were dark times – getting my hopes up for one manuscript after another and having them dashed.
Activities that seem quite twenty-first century, she shows, began when people cut and pasted from one manuscript to another; made aggregated news in compendiums; passed around précis.
And in the 11th century, one manuscript suggested that "dimness of the eyes" be treated with a poultice made up, among other things, of honey, pepper and wine.
She produced 26 novels in 40 years, allowing herself by her own account 30 minutes between completing one manuscript and starting to think about the next.
Yet Cooper refers to one manuscript written in the 1960s, and a diary, and from these the final volume will be fashioned and published next year.
The Xerox machine meant that suddenly, not one manuscript was submitted to one publisher, but that 10 copies went to 10 publishers simultaneously.
