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Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1885] / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
46 ff. (formerly stapled bifolia).
Placed as bifolia in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Initially sold at the Sotheby's Derwydd Mansion Sale, 15 September 1998, as part of lot 231.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
C.R. Johnson Rare Book Collections; London; Purchase; November 2007; 004518710
Content and structure area
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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Accruals
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Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Top outer edges of ff. 23-46 damaged by rodents with some loss of original foliation.
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Notes area
Note
Original title.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23972E.
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Virtua system control number
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
November 2010.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw;