The Case of the Missing Manuscripts: Doing Archival Research on Children’s Series Authors

Karen M. Mason

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The Case of the Missing Manuscripts: Doing Archival Research on Children’s Series Authors

Karen M. Mason

Rediscovering Nancy Drew, p.170

University of Iowa Press

05/01/1995

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Abstract

So beginsQuarry Ghost, the last novel written by Mildred Wirt Benson. The book was published in 1959 by Dodd, Mead, and Co., although it almost didn’t make it into print. A letter written by Benson to her publisher reads in part: Dear Miss Bryan: I have an idea which may salvage quarry ghost. The entire book will have to be rewritten, but all swim scenes and characters could be saved, pretty much the same chapter arrangement kept and same interchange between characters which I would need for any successful re-write…. Following your suggestion, dead body would be eliminated, the

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Title: Subtitle: The Case of the Missing Manuscripts: Doing Archival Research on Children’s Series Authors
Creators: Karen M. Mason
Contributors: Nancy Tillman Romalov (Editor)
Carolyn Stewart Dyer (Editor)
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Rediscovering Nancy Drew, p.170
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Date published: 05/01/1995
Academic Unit: Special Collections and University Archives; History; Journalism and Mass Communication
Record Identifier: 9983993006002771

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