File Wynnstay MS 8 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Diddanwch Teuluaidd neu Lyfr o Gywyddau a Chaniadau Ysgrythyrol a Diddanol

'Diddanwch Teuluaidd neu Lyfr o Gywyddau a Chaniadau Ysgrythyrol a Diddanol o Gyfansoddiad a Chasgliad Huw ap Huw o Lwydiarth Escob yn ynys Fon', being an incomplete manuscript of the poems of Hugh Hughes (Y Bardd Coch o Fôn, 1693-1776). It appears from the introduction, 'At y Darllenydd Hynaws', that this volume was prepared for publication, and it is interesting to find that some of the poems which were in this manuscript (see table on page 171) were published by Huw Jones of Llangwm (?1700-1782) in a volume of compositions by Anglesey poets which also bore the title Diddanwch Teuluaidd (1763), and which appeared during the life-time of Hugh Hughes. Lewis Morris read the manuscript and there are emendations in his hand in the margins. On the loose sheets in this volume is a portion of an elegy to Dr Edward Wynn of Bodewryd, which has been marked in such a way as to show it to be the manuscript used for the printed version of that poem in Diddanwch Teuluaidd (1763). That is the only portion of this manuscript containing poems printed in Diddanwch Teuluaidd which has been preserved. There is an incomplete copy on page 137 of Lewis Morris's cywydd relating how Dr Evans Llanerch-y-medd conquered death. Hugh Hughes undoubtedly introduced this as a prelude to his cywydd ateb which should follow. Lewis Morris has altered some words in this copy, and some of the emendations suggest that Hugh Hughes was writing from memory and not from a written version.