A reminder that he has not sent an acknowledgement to the Literary Fund of the receipt of £20 some time ago. Telling him not to allude to this in his letters to the writer, as O. Myvyr knows nothing of the circumstance: 'for, considering his exactness in such matters, he would be apt to scold terribly.' He hopes EW will inform them of his setting off for London soon, for Myvyr has been so often disappointed that he begins to despair of his coming, say[?ing] yesterday that in that case he had an idea of asking D. Thomas to come to London. The books have been sent to the Caermarthen Academy. The Board of Agri. has engaged Walter Davies to draw up a report of the South Wales counties. WD is terribly overreaching - what Myvyr has intimated to him. He has not received any translations of Gray's Bard except one from Bardd Cloff and that will not do. His own conception of poetry. Since writing thus far he has cut his thumb, so that EW will scarcely read what follows. The chronicles EW sent up have not yet been examined sufficiently to tell him anything about them. He wishes EW (had) communicated the works of the South Wales poet of 1150 in time for the first volume, but they are too valuable to be neglected and must have room in a future appendix. 'I conceive too that Cyvrinach y Beirdd must have a place, to give them a sanction in other works.' He has just received proposals of a work by the Rev. Mr Davies of Olveston, Gloucestershire. WO is now giving considerable attention to the Sanskrit language. After leaving the addressee he met in his way with two young men very fond of Welsh matters - Saunders, to be heard of at Mrs Williams, Lammas Street, Carmarthen, and Mr Lewis at the Vale works near Abergavenny. On the back of the wrapper, which is franked by [Viscount] Bulkeley, is written an account 'copied out of the day's Papers' of the discovery in the back part of the state of Kentucky of some walls built of well-formed brick and mortar. Endorsed: 'Threatens to employ David Thomas' and 'Walter Davies, David Thomas, Literary Fund'.