The first draft of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was destroyed by the author's wife.

Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of the famous novel “The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” In 1885, when Stevenson's wife read the first draft, she showed it to her friend, calling it “a quire full of utter nonsense,” and told her “He said it was his greatest work. I shall burn it after I show it to you.”

Stevenson, nearly deranged by tuberculosis and the effects of medical cocaine, spent the next three days feverishly rewriting and redrafting the 30,000-word story by hand. Weeks later, it became a best selling novel to the extent of being preached on in churches.

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