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File Folk music -- Wales.
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Press cuttings,

Cuttings, 1902-[?1916], in French, English and Welsh, from newspapers and journals, relating to musical activities with which Madame Barbier was associated, including concerts in France and Wales, performances of Welsh folk-music in Paris, and the founding of a School of Music at UCW, Aberystwyth.

Edward Jones letter, national airs,

A copy of Edward Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards ... (London, 1794), with a few annotations by John Dovaston. Among items tipped in are transcripts by Edward Jones of Welsh, English and Irish airs (ff. 1, 73, 106) and a letter from him to Dovaston, 16 January 1817, concerning Welsh folk-tunes and other national airs (ff. 74-75). The letter is in answer to Dovaston's letter of 25 December 1816, which is part of Cardiff MS 4.130.

Edward Jones and John Dovaston.