In the 1990s, a manuscript by Mitchell of a novel entitled "Lost Laysen" was discovered among a collection of letters Mitchell had given in the early 1920s to a suitor named Henry Love Angel. The manuscript had been written in two notebooks in 1916. In the 1990s, Angel`s son discovered the manuscript and sent it to the Road to Tara Museum, which authenticated the work. A special edition of "Lost Laysen" — a romance set in the South Pacific — was edited by Debra Freer, augmented with an account of Mitchell and Angel`s romance including a number of her letters to him, and published by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster in 1996.