I'm working on the LLLT Postscript edition of TTFBM. Central to the PS is the fact that the book's original hardcover edition was heavily edited and then recalled before it was distributed at my father's insistence. A new, unedited version was then produced and released about 6 months later. That is the book most people have read for the last 45 years or so.

The issue I'm writing about, however, is that it seems in a few places the book really DID need some serious editing. Has anyone noticed that there are two Tatton Chantry references in it? The one in Chapter 19 suggests the events in Fair Blows the Wind had occurred 20 years before. The one in Chapter 21 indicates that it is Barnabas Sackett's ship the Abigail on which young Tatton escapes Ireland for the first time.

I can remember no complaints about this and sometimes I wonder if I'm just missing something but it DOES seem like Dad played around with both ideas and needed to cut one out but, with all the editorial chaos surrounding the book, failed to ... or, more likely, stuck something back in that should have been left out.

I'm interested in opinions ... but only of those who bother to go look at the chapters in question. I don't want to make any mistakes on this!