Hearts of youth : Or the jewels of Sheba : autograph manuscript, 1918 Nov.

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Hearts of youth : Or the jewels of Sheba : autograph manuscript, 1918 Nov.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270914922

A short novel written by Williams at the age of twelve; in his autobiography he described its genesis: "An urge which had been forming for months suddently crystallized. I wanted to tell a story, on paper. I walked down to Fewster's, bought a wad of foolscap, sat at the kitchen table, and wrote across the top, in flowing scroll, 'HEARTS OF YOUTH, '. . . One well-behaved cliche glided after the other on oiled wheels."

1 item (68 p.) ; 33 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Williams, Emlyn, 1905-1987

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Emlyn Williams was an actor, director, novelist, essayist, and playwright best known for NIGHT MUST FALL and THE CORN IS GREEN. Born in 1905 in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales, where most of his family and friends mined coal, Emlyn Williams was inspired by a sympathetic teacher to pursue a theatrical and literary career. He acted in many plays and films, and also directed the movie THE LAST DAYS OF DOLWYN (1949) which marked the film debut of his fellow Welshman Richard Burton. From the early 1950s on...