Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the University's claims, however, Alcott family descendents said that they did not know about the novel until they were told of its existence by the two professors the Times credits with finding the manuscript...
...fact, one of the owners of the manuscript rights is Ziegler Professor of Business Administration John W. Pratt, the great-great grandson of Louisa's father Branson Alcott. Louisa died childless...
According to various media sources, Joel Myerson, Carolina Research Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina, and Daniel Shealy, associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, came accross the manuscript sometimes in the late 1980s...
Hence their satisfaction about what turned up in the cabin, even before the manuscript surfaced. In addition to the bombmaking notes and paraphernalia and the half-made bomb they found immediately, agents soon encountered a finished product: they had to delay the search while they defused it. Its structural peculiarities, experts said, were exactly those of the Unabomber bombs. The searchers also discovered a piece of paper with the words "hit list" written above "airline industry," "computer industry" and "geneticists." Evidence from the cabin was so strong, federal officials said, that it might convict Kaczynski without having to match...
...manuscript's discovery will make prosecution a much surer bet. Initial tests have indicated it was typed on the typewriter next to it; and the FBI had previously determined by examining the manifesto sent to the papers, the Unabomber's missives to various newspapers and a gloating note to one victim that all three emerged from the same machine. In fact, lying next to the treatise in the cabin was a version of one of the bomber's letters to the New York Times. As America's trial watchers are aware, there is no such thing as a sure thing...