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.