ABSTRACT
Further research led to the discovery of the manuscript of Athens in the Hertfordshire Archives, where it had been deposited (along with many other papers) for safe keeping by the Lytton family. It was a tense moment when, one day in autumn 2002, I travelled to Hertford to inspect the brown paper parcel which contained the manuscript. There indeed was the complete manuscript of the published section of Athens, a bundle of many hundred pages of closely written text, covered with multiple corrections and additions, such that it was effectively indecipherable-although presumably the copyist or printer had managed to create the published text from it.
