Dangos 197 canlyniad

Twenty-eight notebooks and bundles, 1796-1815, consisting of travel journals and agricultural notes relating mainly to Iolo Morganwg's work for the Board of Agriculture in Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire in 1796 and his contribution to Gwallter Mechain's General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales (London, 1815).
Also included are fragments of tours in parts of England (E5/13); a journal of his tour to North Wales in 1799, collecting materials for the Myvyrian Archaiology (E5/18, formerly 'IAW 144'); bundles of loose agricultural notes (E5/26-27); and geological notes relating to Glamorgan (E5/28).

Miscellaneous pedigrees and other biographical material relating mostly to Wales, with some items relating to Gilbert Wakefield.

Papers relating to Iolo Morganwg's imprisonment in Cardiff Gaol for debt (98/1-25) and to the parish of Rumney and Manor of Rompney, Monmouthshire, where he briefly farmed land given him by his father-in-law (99/1-54).

Letters (surname Williams) addressed mostly to Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo).
The correspondents include Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morganwg), 1825-1834 (Nos 877-885), and William Williams, Aberpergwm, 1835-1843 (Nos 888-1000).

Literary papers from various sources.

Miscellaneous notes and papers of Iolo Morganwg, [18 cent., last ¼]-[1830s], on a variety of subjects, including (mainly Welsh) history (E8/1), religion (E8/2), Welsh and English literature, including Dr Johnson (E8/3), Bardism (E8/4) and biography and genealogy (E8/5); together with further bundles of miscellaneous notes and papers, retained in original order (E8/6-9), with subjects including politics, printing and Poems Lyric and Pastoral, 1784-[c. 1809] (E8/6), patriarchal religion, priestcraft and Lewis Morris (E8/7), poetry and monumental inscriptions (E8/8) and salmau (E8/9); and a case containing notes on Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum and at Jesus College, Oxford (E8/10).

Miscellaneous Welsh prose writings of Iolo Morganwg.

A commonplace book, [17 cent., third ¼], containing recipes, Latin epigrams, extracts from various printed sources, etc.

Fifteen manuscript tune books belonging to Iolo Morganwg, including five volumes of hymn-tunes composed by him for his Welsh hymns or 'salmau', each entitled 'Salmyddiaeth Iolo Morganwg' or variants thereof (E2/1-5), together with several others containing at least some salmau (E2/8-12). Also included are volumes containing English hymns (E2/6, 11), Tribannau (E2/13) and Scottish airs (E2/15).

A bundle of loose sheets (E4/1) and five small booklets (E4/2) containing various drafts of introductions and glossaries for Iolo's hymns, or 'salmau', presumably intended for the two volumes of his Salmau'r Eglwys yn yr Anialwch (1812, 1834); together with two bundles containing drafts and fragments of Iolo's salmau (E4/3-4).

Miscellaneous papers of Iolo Morganwg, collected in seven bundles with little or no unity (E9/1-7). Included is a bundle of fragments found amongst the papers of his son Taliesin (E9/7).

Miscellaneous papers collected by Iolo Morganwg (and a few by Taliesin ab Iolo), comprising: an account of 'The state of the cause concerning the president and Councell established in the Marches of Wales', [?1641] (E13/1); a copy of the declaration of Prince Rupert, Shropshire, 6 May 1644, concerning the intent of the Commission of Marshal Law given by him to Sir John Mennes in the counties of Carnarvonshire, Merioneth and Anglesey (E13/2); a grant of a barn or cowhouse called Ty Pen y Twyn in Ystradyvoducke [sic], Glamorgan, 20 January 1653/4 (E13/3); a catalogue of books from unidentified library, [?17 cent, second ½] (E13/4, incomplete); a volume of sermon notes and/or Biblical commentary, [?late 17 cent. x early 18 cent] (E13/5, incomplete); a confirmation by Friedrich Augustus, King of Poland, etc., of appointment of a 'Geleitsmann', Dresden, 30 October 1703 (E13/6); a notebook containing a manuscript copy, [c. 1746], of the pamphlet An Appeal from the Late David Morgan Esqr … (London, 1746, ESTC T59776) (E13/7); lease of a plot of ground in the parish of Rumpney [sic], Monmouthshire, 24 March 1752 (E13/8); a rental of 'Dunraven Estate for the year 1756', [?1756] (E13/9); a schedule of land tax in Glamorgan for the year 1662, with a table giving the rate of tax from 1688 to 1759, [?1759] (E13/10); part of a deposition, [?1760s], by the unnamed tenant of land once owned by the late Miles Llewellin (junior) of Llantrisant, Glamorgan, concerning an unspecified dispute (ff. 28-30 only) (E13/11); draft particulars of lands belonging to John Bedford to be made a mortgage of the Hon. Board of Ordnance, providing a furnace and tools, [?1780] (E13/12); copy of a deed relating to [?a Unitarian meeting house] in Neath, 1814 (E13/13); a [?proof] copy of a reprinting, by W. Williams, printer, Merthyr Tydfil, of William Cobbett's address 'To the Journeymen and Labourers of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland…', [?1816] (E13/14); and three copies, 1816-1824, of English translations of two charters relating to the town of Aberavon (dated 1350 and 1373) (E13/15-17).

English poems and fragments, drafts and notes, mainly in the hand of Taliesin Williams, comprising poems generally of a more substantial or complete nature (T8/1), a bundle of smaller notes and fragments (T8/2), a bundle of poems in a generally poor condition (T8/3), notebooks containing poetry (T8/4-5), and notebooks and loose papers containing drafts and notes for Taliesin's poem The Doom of Colyn Dolphyn (London, 1837) (T8/6-11).

Poetical compositions, 1824-1827, submitted for competition at 'Eisteddfod y Fottas' (the Boot Eisteddfod), held by Cymdeithas Cadair Merthyr Tydfil at the Boot Inn (Arwydd y Fottas), Merthyr Tydfil, together with some adjudications (T9/1, 2 folders). Also included are copies, 1823-1827, of posters advertising the eisteddfodau (T9/2).
Taliesin Williams was secretary to Cymdeithas Cadair Merthyr Tydfil. Some of the compositions were printed in Awenyddion Morganwg; neu, Farddoniaeth Cadair Merthyr Tudful (Merthyr Tydfil, [1826]).

Correspondence and other papers broadly relating to various aspects of Taliesin's public life and work in Merthyr Tydfil and elsewhere. The file contains: some fifty-four draft and copy letters, or parts of letters, written by Taliesin Williams, including many letters to newspapers, 1831-1845, some twenty-seven letters and envelopes addressed to Taliesin and others, 1808-1843, and miscellaneous calling cards and addresses (T10/1); miscellaneous papers relating to his work as a schoolmaster in Neath and Merthyr Tydfil (T10/2); papers relating mostly to various aspects of public life in Merthyr Tydfil, including papers apparently relating to his service as special constable, various petitions to the Crown, the Marquess of Bute and others, and a few items relating to the Merthyr Tydfil Sympathetic Society, 1831-1839 (T10/3); and various papers relating to his activities with groups such as Cymreigyddion y Fenni and Cymreigyddion yr Alarch, being mainly lists of competition subjects, entries and adjudications by him (T10/4).
Of particular note is the beginning (2 pp.) of a draft, in Taliesin's hand, of a petition sent by the people of Merthyr Tydfil to Lord Melbourne, the Home Secretary, in July 1831 pleading for clemency for Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr) and Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) (the final petition is apparently lost, see Gwyn A. Williams, The Merthyr Rising (Cardiff, 1988), p. 184) (in T10/3).

Papers, [1827]-[?20 cent., first ¼], relating mainly to Taliesin Williams's relatives and descendants. These include a draft of Taliesin's will, dated 1842 (T13/1); various catalogues of the manuscripts and books of Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo, [1827]-1848 (T13/2); locks of hair belonging to Taliesin and family members, [1830s] (T13/3); miscellaneous papers, 1847-[c. 1908], mostly of Taliesin's son Edward Williams (1826-1886), the iron-master (T13/4); two notebooks containing English poetry, the one in the hand of Edward Williams, 1845-1848 (T13/5), the other in an unidentified hand, [19 cent., second ¼] (T13/6); three volumes of autograph English poetry, 1838-1861, by Edward's uncle, James Petherick of Cardiff and Aberdare (T13/7); and a bundle of old paper wrappers, [?20 cent., first ¼], containing notes in the hand of Edward's son Aneurin Williams, retained as evidence of previous attempts at sorting the papers (T13/8).

One hundred and twenty-two letters, 1879-1885, from Edward Williams, Middlesbrough, to his second son Aneurin Williams.

One hundred and forty-one letters, 1879-1897, from Illtyd Williams, Middlesbrough, to his younger brother Aneurin.

Some twenty-four letters, 1882-1891, from 'Cissie' [Amelia Helena] Williams (née Nagle), wife of Illtyd Williams, to her brother-in-law Aneurin Williams.

Some fifty-nine letters, 1884-1896, from Dr John Hedley, Yester House, Middlesbrough, to his brother-in-law Aneurin Williams.