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A holograph essay on 'Llên y Werin Sir Gaerynarfon. Wedi eu casglu ynghyd o Gof, o Glywed, ac o Lyfrau', by 'Hengof'. A note added after the pseudonym identifies the writer as William Jones ('Bleddyn') [antiquary and local historian], of Llangollen. The title-page bears the date 5 July 1880, and the essay was submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales for that year, held at Caernarvon. Newspaper cuttings giving the adjudication of archdeacon John Evans [archdeacon of Merioneth], on the seven entries submitted, have been pasted in at the beginning of the work. The rubber-stamp impression of the National Eisteddfod held in London, 1887, is to be found on pp. 117 and 186.

An incomplete holograph copy of an essay on 'Llên y Werin', by 'Elfod' [William Jones ('Bleddyn'), the writer of the essay in the preceding manuscript, N.LW MS 12734E]. In a foreword, dated 30 June 1887, the writer states tat he had intended compiling an anthology of the folk- lore of the whole of Wales, but that pressure of time had compelled him to limit the area dealt with to the counties of Merioneth and Caernarvon ('siroedd Meirion ac Arfon'). The rubber-stamp impression of the National Eisteddfod of Wales held in London in 1887 is to be found on the title- page and p. 1.