- NLW MS 16799iD.
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- 30 December 1905 /
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Three verses, dated 30 December 1905, by Edward Evan Morgan, Burry Port, sent to Prof. J. Young Evans and family, Trevecka College, as a greeting card.
Morgan, Edward Evan.
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Three verses, dated 30 December 1905, by Edward Evan Morgan, Burry Port, sent to Prof. J. Young Evans and family, Trevecka College, as a greeting card.
Morgan, Edward Evan.
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Cyclostyle copy of 'The Old Theology', a sonnet by Prof. J. Young Evans, dated Christmas 1907.
Evans, J. Young (John Young), 1865-1941.
Poetic address to the 'Men's Own',
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
'An original poetic Address to the Aberdare Glam. Unemployed "Men's Own" recited by the Composer', by R[obert] W[alter] Bugg, April 1936.
Bugg, R. W. (Robert Walter), 1844-1950.
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Typescript copy, [mid 20 cent.], of 'Bro Goth Agan Tassow', a Cornish song composed, [20 cent., first ¼], by Henry Jenner, based on 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau'.
A revised version appears in The Cornish Song Book, ed. by Ralph Dunstan (London, 1929). Also included is a letter concerning the song, 16 December 1967, from P. A. S. Pool, secretary of the Cornish Language Board.
Jenner, Henry, 1848-1934.
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'The Welsh Budget', [1909], a holograph poem by John Cowper Powys concerning David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget' of 1909; it is apparently unpublished.
Also included is a cutting from the Radio Times, 18-24 June 1966, listing a radio programme on that Budget, transmitted 21 June.
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963
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Leaves from a school exercise book, [?late 19 cent.], containing exercises and transcripts of miscellaneous prose and poetry.
The poetry includes Wordsworth's 'Lucy Gray' (1799) (ff. 5-6), and part of the anonymous poem 'The Lost Child', as published in The Dog of St. Bernard and Other Stories (London, [1875]) (ff. 2, 3).
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Manuscript copy, [c. 1813] (watermark 1811), of the ballad 'Beth Gelert, or The Grave of the Grey Hound' (1800) [by the Hon. W. R. Spencer].
Spencer, William Robert, 1769-1834.
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Three holograph poems, 'To the Beloved', 'A Poet's Dilemma - 1947' and 'Young Artist', by David Bateman, Cardigan, [mid 20 cent].
Bateman, David, 1898-1967.
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Original signed manuscript, [?1917], by John S. Arkwright, of an additional, apparently unpublished, verse to his hymn 'O Valiant Hearts', known for its association with Remembrance Day services.
The hymn in it's published form was included in Arkwright’s volume The Supreme Sacrifice (London, 1919).
Arkwright, John S. (John Stanhope), b. 1872.
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Miscellaneous papers, [1867]-[1896], 1916, of John Morgan, a Cardiff solicitor.
These include three Welsh poems, 'Bywyd Iesu yn fywyd yn fy mywyd i' by 'I.G.D.', [19 cent, second ½], 'Y Bwthyn yn Nghanol y Wlad', [19 cent, second ½], and a press cutting of a poem by Islwyn on the birth of John Morgan's son William Parry [Morgan], [?1875]; and two issues of The Rennbahn Church Times, a Prisoner of War camp magazine, 1916.
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Manuscript, [1822x1849], of the second and third verses (of three) of Charles Swain's 'Tripping Down the Field-Path', published in Charles Swain, English Melodies (London, 1849).
Swain, Charles, 1801-1874.
Part of Barddoniaeth amrywiol,
Typescript, [?20 cent, first ½], of 'Childhood's Memories' by R[ichard] S[amuel] Hughes, dated 18 March 1889.
See Ben Jones, R. S. Hughes and Gutyn Mawrth, Cofion Plentyndod = Childhood's Memories (Bethesda, 1923).
Hughes, R. S.
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Two fly-leaves, from an unidentified volume by one Hugh Thomas [?possibly Hugh Thomas (1673-1720), herald and antiquary], containing two englyns to the owner ('Dau englun Gymraeg er Mr Lewis Jones perchenog y llyfr') by Richard Jones, 30 October 1733 (f. 1); a verse in Latin by 'R. D.' ('Pace tua Amic. Lud: Jones'), [?1733] (f. 1); and 'Speaking (as it were) to the Book after bestowing a Cover to it Sepr 27th 1733' also by 'R[ichard] J[ones]' (f. 1 verso-2 verso).
Jones, Richard, fl. 1733.
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Facsimile copy, [?20 cent, second ¼], of a manuscript of 'Mo Ṫalaṁ Duṫcais', a translation of 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau' into Irish, by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (Tadg O'Donoghue, Torna), dated 24 July 1929 and presented to William Jones, Cilfynydd.
Ó Donnchadha, Tadhg, 1874-1949.
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An autograph translation, [1860x1920], by Anna Walter Thomas (Morfudd Eryri) of David Charles's 'O Fryniau Caersalem' into English (f. 1). Also included are two copies, [?early 20 cent.], of her translation of Heine's verse 'Eine Welle Sprach Zum Andern' into English and Welsh (ff. 2-3).
Thomas, Anna Walter, Morfudd Eryri, 1839-1920.
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Printed copy of the poem 'Canterbury Pilgrims' by Sebastian Evans, signed by the author and dated Christmas 1902.
It was subsequently published in Canterbury: Mother-city of the Anglo-Saxon Race, ed. by Sebastian Evans and Francis Bennett Goldney (Canterbury, [1904]).
Evans, Sebastian, 1830-1909.
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Three holograph poems, 'To Bernard Barton's Daughter', 18 June 1825, 'To Rydal Mount', [1830], and 'To a departed Spirit', [?1830], by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
Also included is a sonnet 'To Mrs Felicia Hemans' by G[eorge] F[leming] Richardson (f. 4), dated 3 July 1827. 'To a departed Spirit' was published in Songs of the Affections (Edinburgh, 1830), pp. 40-42; 'To Bernard Barton's Daughter' appears in The Works of Mrs. Hemans: With a Memoir of Her Life, by Her Sister, 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1839), Ⅵ, 141.
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835.
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Autograph draft of 'Pilgrims', [1896x1901], by Sir Lewis Morris.
The poem was published in Harvest-Tide (London, 1901), pp. 138-140, with a number of revisions.
Morris, Lewis, 1833-1907
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Typescript copies, with the author's signature, [?1949], of two poems by T. H. Jones, 'The Anglo-Welsh' (ff. 1-2) and 'Amends' (f. 3), both addressed to Aneirin Talfan Davies.
'The Anglo-Welsh' was first published in Dock Leaves, 4.11 (Summer 1953), 26, and 'Amends' in The Dublin Magazine, 25.3 (July-September 1950), 4. Also included is a letter from Jones to Davies, 27 March 1957, concerning Jones's book The Enemy in the Heart (London, 1957), in which 'Amends' was first collected (f. i).
Jones, T. Harri (Thomas Harri), 1921-1965.
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Dwy gerdd teipysgrif, [1917x1918], [gan Caradog Rowlands, Llanuwchllyn], un, yn dwyn y teitl 'Yr Hen Gloch', ynglŷn â Lewis Davies, Blaenau Ffestiniog, golygydd papur newydd Y Gloch, oedd hefyd yn Swyddog Gorfodaeth i'r Fyddin (f. 1), a’r llall, ['Palas Pen Gwalia'], am Robert Edward Roberts, a oedd gyda swydd cyffelyb yn ardal Llanuwchllyn (f. 2). Ceir rhywfaint o gefndir y cerddi yn Haf Llewelyn, I Wyneb y Ddrycin: Hedd Wyn, Yr Ysgwrn a'r Rhyfel Mawr (Bala?, 2017), tt. 41-43, yn ogystal a saith pennill cyntaf 'Palas Pen Gwalia' (t. 43). = Two typescript poems, [1917x1918], [by Caradog Rowlands, Llanuwchllyn], one, entitled 'Yr Hen Gloch', concerning Lewis Davies, Blaenau Ffestiniog, editor of the newspaper Y Gloch who was also an Army Conscription Officer (f. 1), the other, ['Palas Pen Gwalia'], concerning Robert Edward Roberts, who fulfilled the same role in the Llanuwchllyn area (f. 2). The background to the poems is briefly discussed in Haf Llewelyn, I Wyneb y Ddrycin: Hedd Wyn, Yr Ysgwrn a'r Rhyfel Mawr (Bala?, 2017), pp. 41-43, alongside the first seven verses of 'Palas Pen Gwalia' (p. 43).
Rowlands, Caradog Tegid, 1891-1968