Ffeil / File AAB/1 - The Great Welsh Novel (unpublished)

Draft annotated manuscript/typescript copy of Tony Curtis's rejected manuscript The Great Welsh Novel, which includes title and contents pages and chapter headings. Letters from 'Emmet Roster' and from 'Owen T. G. Williams', included within the body of the manuscript, are fictional and form part of the text. A letter addressed to Tony Curtis from Christopher Davies (Publishers) Ltd, enclosing a review of the manuscript and a letter in response from Curtis (all of which are kept in marked envelope), are genuine and NOT part of the fictional text, although Curtis's letter of response states that he incorporated the (included) review 'in the new version of the novel'.

In reference to note to chapters titled 'Noose and Fifty' and 'The High School', see under heading Out of the Dark Wood (Edge Press, 1977) .

WARNING: CHAPTER TITLED 'WELCOME TO NEW YORK' CONTAINS RACIST ATTITUDES AND OFFENSIVE TERMINOLOGY (account appears to be based on factual event, but racist content presumably does not reflect author views). Chapter marked with cautionary 'post-it' note.