Now, to give a more coherent answer than that one, what we all know anyway is that David Ritchie worked with different material than what he published. We also know that Arneson handed several manuscripts to Tim Kask, which that one today classifies as unreadable, etc. and possibly everything he had concerning the BM campaign.
So, there should be more than enough machine-written draft papers, like the Thonia manuscript you pointed to that was sold on ebay.
I think, the next step would be to contact the collectors at the Acaeum, and to see what they own. My personal estimation, for several reasons, is that there might be up to 10,000 manuscript pages on Blackmoor alone.
- BUT that doesn't mean that there were novel drafts, and on. The story about the production slots, a different animal. Goes into the entire Lorraine Williams debate, and my view on that is that I concur with her reasoning about restructuring the product lineups.
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