Mountains Adirondack

Sometime between 1882 and 1886 Arthur Conan Doyle anonymously wrote a story entitled "The Narrative of John Smith". As was the practice of the day, Doyle mailed the single manuscript copy to a publisher. The copy was lost in the mails, never to be found.
This story's fate was almost that of Doyle's 'Narrative'. I had misfiled my single typewriter written copy of "Mountains Adirondack" in the stacks of my library. Decades went by when this story suddenly reappeared as I was crating up my book...