Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Jack Beeching Manuscipts consist exclusively of various drafts of his work The Dakota Project which was published in 1968. The draft manuscripts have been organized in the order they are believed to have been written. The terms “First”, “Second”, and “Final” are used on the file labels only to distinguish between the three major typed drafts. The first draft, written in longhand, is actually on the back of many of the “First” Draft pages; although not in consecutive order. The “Second”...