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

Description
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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5,359 members
65 reviews
4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: The 250,000 word m/s of the first version was lost whilst changing trains at Reading in 1919
2
762 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
Cecrow
3
1,444 members
14 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
Explanations
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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279 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Member
thorold
Explanations
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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3,025 members
40 reviews
4.1
Member
thorold
Explanations
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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Member
thorold
Explanations
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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22,736 members
364 reviews
3.9