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- [1860x1889] / (Creation)
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Biographical history
Poet and socialist Robert Jones (later Robert Jones Derfel) was born on a farm situated between Llandderfel and Bethel in Merionethshire. He was for a time a Baptist preacher but turned to socialism and agnosticism and left the Church around 1865. He was one of the founders, in 1890, of the Manchester and District Fabian Society and wrote numerous articles, in both English and Welsh, on socialism, some of which were published at the Welsh bookshop and printing press he established in Manchester during the 1860s. A Welsh nationalist and accomplished poet, Derfel was successful at a number of eisteddfodau.
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Holograph manuscripts of lectures, papers and sermons by Robert Jones Derfel (1824-1905) including a letter to the Welsh Baptist Church at Granby Row, Manchester, 1866; 'Beginning at Jerusalem', 1866; 'Winter speaking and Summer silence', 1866; 'Not one, not some, but all'; sermons, 1860-1; and letters from John Lewis ('Ap Gwalia'), Aberdare; Robert Parry ('Robyn Ddu Eryri'), Ludlow, 1889; and William Thomas ('Islwyn'), undated and incomplete.
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- Welsh
- English
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Welsh, English.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 9499B.
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- Capel y Bedyddwyr Cymraeg (Manchester, England) (Subject)
- Lewis, John (Subject)
- Robyn Ddu Eryri, 1804-1892 (Subject)
- Islwyn, 1832-1878 (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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May 2008.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS;