File NLW MS 12525B. - Cymry Manceinion,

A volume of manuscript notes with insets (mostly newspaper cuttings, a few letters, etc.) compiled by Ionawryn Williams [of Manchester and Bethesda], and consisting mainly of biographical data relating to Welshmen who had resided in or been connected with the city of Manchester or the neighbourhood in the nineteenth century, including such figures as Robert Jones Derfel, the Reverend William James , and John Jones ('Poet Jones'), etc. A few of the entries refer to the compiler's previously published work on Manchester Welshmen entitled [Geirlyfr bywgraffiadol yn cynhwys byr-hanes y Cymry mwyaf adnabyddus fuont yn preswylio yn Manceinion, Salford, 1896]. The volume also contains an account of attempts to form a Welsh [literary] society in Manchester in 1835. Amongst the insets is a long autograph letter from R[ichard] J[ones] Berwyn, Trerauson Chwbut [sic] [Patagonia], to Ionawryn Williams, [18]97 ( a reply to a request for information concerning Thomas Penant Evans ('Twmi Dimol'), who had been one of the emigrants who had sailed to Patagonia in the Mimosa in 1865), and a short holograph note from the same writer to [Ionawryn Williams], undated (giving a few autobiographical details).