The four papers by Norbert Elias discovered by the editors in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (DLA), and published here for the first time with important commentaries, are all significant additions to the Elias canon. In this Conclusion, the General Editor of the 18-volume Collected Works of Norbert Elias discusses how they are related to the writings published in that series. He explains why these papers – and many others – remain unpublished. He sketches Elias's working methods, which involved a curious mixture of perfectionism and chaos.