Overview
- Professor Sarah Dillon published a full transcription and analysis in The Review of English Studies on Friday, July 24, 2026, and the six-page manuscript (AMT/A/13) is available via the Turing Digital Archive.
- Dillon reads the piece as autofiction in which the scientist character Alec Pryce stands in for Turing and dramatizes the late‑1951 meeting that led to his arrest for gross indecency.
- The study documents a specific literary debt to Angus Wilson’s 1952 novel Hemlock and After, noting replicated scene order, similar phrasing, and a shared technique of shifting focalisation.
- The manuscript is incomplete, ending abruptly mid‑sentence on the words 'Ron wouldn’t', and surviving pages show edits and crossed‑out lines that indicate it was a working draft.
- Scholars say the fragment complicates Turing’s public image by showing a sexually engaged, literary-minded person and may prompt fresh archival work and wider reassessments of how literary practice shaped his response to prosecution and hormone treatment.