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In fact, in his seminal article " How Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio ," William L. Phillips wrote that the manuscript of " Hands " contained "... almost two hundred instances in which earlier words and phrases are deleted, changed, or added to ..." though no major structural changes to the story were detected.

Additionally, slightly different versions of ten stories that ended up in the book were published by three literary magazines between 1916 – 1918 as follows: