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Eisteddfod Essays

Essays, etc., on various subjects, most of them submitted for competition by various writers, as follows: 'Traithawd ar Effeithiau Niweidiawl Penboethni a Phleidiaeth Grefyddawl &c. &c... . Eisteddfod Iforaidd Cendle ...', 'Traethawd ar ragoriaeth y Bibl fel llyfr yr Ysgol Sabbothol ... Eisteddfod Aberdare', 'Y Prif Wyliau Iuddewig ... Eisteddfod Pontardawe ... 1870', 'Traithawd ar Onestrwydd ... Buddugol yn Nghyfarfod Llenyddol Tredegar, 1865', 'Traithawd ar "Y moddion mwyaf effeithiol i ddyrchafu cysur y gweithiwr" ... Eisteddfod Brynhyfryd ... 1853', 'Traithawd ar Fuddioldeb Gwybodaeth, yn enwedig i'r Bobl Weithgar ... Cyfrinfa Odyddawl Llaneurwg, 1850', 'Traithawd ar yr Ysgol Sabbothol ... Cymdeithas Iforaidd Casbach ... 1852', 'Aberdulais Eisteddfod ... 1860 ... An Essay on "The Advantages of Education to the Working Classes"', 'The Antiquity of the House of Tredegar or the Descendants of Ivor Hael' [? for a Newport eisteddfod], and 'The Inconsistency of Affection towards Christian Pastors'.

Miscellaneous papers relating to Merthyr

  • NLW MS 22674E.
  • File
  • 1822-[c.1950]

Miscellaneous papers in Welsh and English, 1822-[c.1950], mainly of Merthyr Tudful interest, accumulated by Elias Thomas, comprising poems and essays by his great-grandfather Rowland Thomas ('Idris Ddu'), his grandfather, William R. Thomas, and others, including an essay on the origin of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks by Rowland Thomas, with a translation of the same by Thomas Stephens (1821-75) of Merthyr; draft letters, articles and notes by Thomas Stephens; printed rules, 1846, of 'Cymdeithas Cadarn Graig y Cymry', Merthyr; and miscellaneous notes and press cuttings.