The White Violet,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23972E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004518710
  • Dates of Creation
    • [c. 1885] /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 46 ff. (formerly stapled bifolia).
      Placed as bifolia in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Draft of a short adventure novel in three chapters entitled 'The White Violet', written c. 1885 by Alan James Gulston (1813-1886) of Derwydd and Dirleton, co. Carmarthen, brother of Josepha Heath Gulston ('Talbot Gwyn', 1811-1859) the novelist. The novel is set in South Africa during the Cape Frontier (or Kaffir) Wars of 1779-1879, and the draft contains numerous corrections to the text. A reference on the first folio to the author's novel Warren Knowles, published in London in 1885, suggests an approximate date for this composition.

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Acquisition Information

C.R. Johnson Rare Book Collections; London; Purchase; November 2007; 004518710

Note

Original title.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23972E.

Alternative Form Available

Text

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Top outer edges of ff. 23-46 damaged by rodents with some loss of original foliation.

Archivist's Note

November 2010.

Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw;

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright laws apply.

Custodial History

Initially sold at the Sotheby's Derwydd Mansion Sale, 15 September 1998, as part of lot 231.

Related Material

For other manuscript materials dispersed at the Derwydd Mansion Sale of 1998, and directly purchased by the Library, see NLW ex 2001-9. For a letter, 29 June 1918, from Alan Stepney-Gulston, Derwydd, Llandebie to John Ballinger, in which he discusses his aunt, Talbot Gwynne, see NLW Archive, file G7/5.

Additional Information

Published

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