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Miscellaneous poetry, circa 1895-1899, by and in the hand of E. R. Horsfall Turner, together with English translations by him of hymns by Morgan Rhys, Anne Griffiths, Edward Jones, Maes-y-plwm, and Evan Rees ('Dyfed').

Miscellaneous poems by Goronwy Owen, Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), Dafydd Manuel, and other bards of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and notes by Walter Davies.

Papers relating to the marriage, 1823, of John Jenkins, Kerry, and Elizabeth Jones, Crosswood, and to the birth of their son, John Heyward, 1824, including congratulatory poems, letters, etc., written by John Blackwell (Alun), Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn), Walter Davies, Thomas Edwards (Arfona), Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel), Dewi Hughes (Cynwyd), William Ellis Jones (Gwilym Cawrdaf), Isaac Llwyd (Gwyddon), John Athelstan Owen (Bardd Meirion), William Owen (Gwilym Glan Hafren), A. Pryse, John Roberts (Hersedd), Owen Williams (Waunfawr), William Williams (Gwalchmai), William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog), etc.

A volume, 1803-1859, containing verse and prose in English, French and Italian, mainly dedicated to Caroline Hamilton (née Tighe, d. 1861) of Hamwood, in various hands including those of members of the families of Hamilton, Tighe and Fitzgerald, as well as transcripts and watercolour decorations by Sarah Ponsonby, among them being two views of Plasnewydd (ff. 35, 39). The poetry includes an autograph unfinished poem by Thomas Moore, differing from the published version ('Tell me the witching tale again ...', ff. 3-4), an autograph, apparently unpublished poem by Mary Tighe ('Though Genius and Fancy hereafter may trace ...', f. 7 recto-verso), and two autograph published poems by Mrs Felicia Hemans (ff. 48 verso-49).

A volume copied, March 1804, for Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby by Mary Tighe containing a transcript of the latter's poem Psyche, published in 1805, and of verses written to her by Thomas Moore.

A notebook begun in 1826 by John Williams (1806-1856), Baptist minister and author of Yr Oraclau Bywiol, containing essays, sermons, poems, etc.