Item 985. - [Edward Williams], Merthyr Tydvil, to [?Thomas Burgess] ('My Lord'),

After many obstacles Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain is in the press at this place, and about a fourth part of it is printed off. A report that a Committee of the Cambrian Society had met and had reversed everything promised by the first Committee. How Mr Rowlands, when the writer left Carmarthen in August 1819, asked if he would leave some of his MSS with him until he (EW) returned, intimating that the addressee had expressed a wish to take the opinion of some of his learned Welsh friends. How the late Rev. Eliezer Williams asked if EW would allow him the perusal of Cyfrinach Beirdd. This he did and desired Mr Rowlands to put it into his hands as soon as the addressee's intentions had been answered. The writer's efforts to recover his books and MSS. Mr Rowlands's neglect of writing to him - by some hints that have been suggested to him by a very respectable clergyman Mr Rowlands intended to become himself the editor and publisher of the Cyfrinach. He (EW) has not the least suspicion that the addressee was aware of any such an intention of Rowlands. Draft. ?Incomplete.