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- [c. 1938] (Creation)
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300 ff. (originally foliated 1-61, 1-12, 1-15, 1-197 with 21 unnumbered leaves and one leaf numbered (b); leaves missing after ff. 14, 72, 99, 124, 127, 160 and 186). 325 x 215 mm. Bound in quarter-leather at NLW
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Bought from Bertram Rota Ltd,; London,; 1989
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Original manuscript of Richard Llewellyn's novel 'How Green Was My Valley' (Michael Joseph, 1939), bearing considerable revision by the author and including a rejected draft conclusion (f. 300). Complete except for seven leaves. According to a note on f. 183v, 6 [? recte 8] leaves were removed for a 1939 book exhibition; one of these (now f. 183) was subsequently found loose inside an uncorrected proof copy of the book, acquired by NLW in 1988, and returned to the original manuscript.
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- English
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English
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Note
Previous title: Richard Llewellyn: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Note
See also NLW MS 21752E and the NLW typescript list 'Richard Llewellyn Papers' (1995).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22669E