In the "original publication" the very rare drastically edited one that Dad objected to, the version of the story that Pim tells was omitted. In the scramble to put everything back after Dad complained about the editor (probably working for Saturday Review Press) cutting around 100 pages, the Pim version was put back in ... I'm guessing no one had the guts to go to Dad and say, "You were right, that editing job was out of control ... but here's a problem that needs fixing. To really do a good job fixing the Pim section Chapter 19 needs to be revised not just edited.

Whether Dad then got every detail correct when he wrote Fair Blows the Wind a year or two later is another open question. That manuscript ALSO suffered from aggressive editing but at least it was caught before any were printed. Again material was shuffled back into the book at the last minute.

That was the last time we had that sort of trouble. Bantam started publishing their own hardcovers and all the editorial work was kept in house and a new editor was hired, a young man named Irwyn Applebaum who became our dear friend. He eventually went to work elsewhere but returned to run Bantam as Publisher for 15 years or so from the 1990s to the early 2000s.

There definitely aren't two Tatton Chantry's who escape from Ireland to England in the same way. that would be much too confusing because there is already the "mysterious" first Tatton Chantry who's name our character uses. Unfortunately, I know as little about that as anyone. Nor do I know who "Tatton," (our Tatton) really was supposed to be. Irish nobility of some sort.

Les
Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back..

A fun (but easily dismissed) edit suggestion would be to make the character a Trelawney, which family was connected historically to Falmouth. And were Baronets, close enough to nobility.

Falcon

Falcon

So a completed and previously published story can have a certain sort of minor change, depending on the seriousness of the problem that I'm trying to address.

A completed but unpublished story has slightly less strict rules and an incomplete and, therefore, unpublished story has even fewer.

In all cases I assume that it is better to cut than to add. And, if details need to be added by me, I try to find things that came out of Dad's life or out of research or books that he was dealing with at the time.

Obviously, style has to be matched. I've had a lot of blowback over No Traveller Returns because, of course, it doesn't read like his westerns. That was never the model, however. The first draft of book itself and the extended universe that it exists in, that of the Yondering stories, has to be the basis for its style.

I have no issues with making changes but, as I mentioned, I like to follow the rules I have set out. I'm not absolute about it, but the rules need to be consulted before I decide to obey or ignore them, and various types of changes need to be carefully considered on different types of material. Typically, if I can fix a problem by removing material rather than adding it, then that's what I do.

This needs to be fixed ... actually, it already has been. It's all noted in the Lost Treasures PS.