Curious to compare it to the final edition, I reopened my file-and as I read it again, this time more slowly, I realized something odd. Just recently, I was enjoying a re-read of Return to Gone-Away (RtGA) when I remembered that scene from the Kerlan files. I also received a jotted-down scene from a folder labeled Return to Gone-Away depicting Portia and Julian talking, so I assumed it was a piece of an early draft. Shortly afterward I received scans of a few sheets of Enright’s handwriting-some research notes about plants and flowers, along with a list of all the turn-of-the-century families mentioned in the two Gone-Away novels. I was particularly curious about early drafts of Enright’s Melendy or Gone-Away Lake novels. Earlier this year, I contacted the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota to do some research on two of my favorite authors, Maud Hart Lovelace and Elizabeth Enright.
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