Most entrants still favour the old-fashioned handwritten manuscript, several colourfully illustrated with seasonal motifs.

Her final handwritten manuscript has now been reproduced for the first time.

The next day she gives him a handwritten manuscript, and later that night he reads it.

Only 70 compositions (about 7 percent of his working output) survived, some only in handwritten manuscript form, which later had to be transcribed.

A note on the text discusses the nature of the original handwritten manuscript and the technical irregularities of young authorship, including errors in spelling and punctuation.