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Album of 'Gwalchmai',

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An album compiled by Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), Congregational minister, poet, and litterateur, of Llandudno, etc. It contains holograph letters from, amongst others, Thomas Dick, 1848; W. Williams ('Williams o'r Wern'), 1839; and Taliesin Williams, 1839; autographs, largely in the form of cut-out signatures of letters, of, amongst others, Richard Cobden; George Hadfield, politician; Daniel O'Connell; [Sir Thomas] Love [Duncombe] Jones Parry; Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon'); Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'); John Jones ('Talhaiarn'); John Williams ('Ab Ithel'); Samuel Roberts ('S. R.'); John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'); Augusta Hall, baroness Llanover ('Gwenynen Gwent'); Christmas Evans; J[ohn] Jones ('Tegid'); David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'); Brinley Richards, 1879; Joseph Hughes ('Carn Ingli'); and John Williams ('Ab Ithel'); verses in the hand of, and in most cases composed by, amongst others, Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), 1851; David Griffith ('Clwydfardd'), 1874; E. Herber Evans, [18]77; Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn'), 1869; Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), ?1871; Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'), 1870; J[ohn] Thomas ('Siôn Wyn o Eifion'), 1836; William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), 1870; Lewis Morris ('Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn'); David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), 1836; W. Cadwaladr Davies, [18]74; and T. Tudno Jones ('Tudno'), 1875-1894; the certificate, 1843, of the election of Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai') to membership of Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion y Fenni; a biographical note on, and a blazon of the arms of, Hwfa ap Cynddelw, head of the first of the fifteen tribes of North Wales; a pardon, bearing the signature of [Sir] R[obert] Peel, 1830; etc.

Gwalchmai, 1803-1897

Albwm llofnodion, &c.

An album of annotated autographs, photographs and engravings, printed matter, press cuttings, etc., compiled during the years 1858-1881. The volume is almost entirely devoted to persons who were prominent in the literary and musical life of Wales during this period, and it appears from internal evidence to have been well known to the compiler's friends and contemporaries. The autographs are largely in the form of personal entries, recorded mainly at national and other eisteddfodau, but there are also a number of mounted holograph letters, 'cut-out' signatures from holograph letters, and franks. The writers include Joseph Hughes ('Carn Ingli'), Meltham, Richard Williams Morgan ('Mor Meirion'), Tregynon, John Williams ab Ithel, Llanymowddwy Rectory, Ellis Roberts ('Eos Meirion'), London, Jerome Greene Pym ('Ap Ednyfed'), Inner Temple, Thos. Stephens, Merthyr Tydfil, David James, Ph.D., F.S.A. ('Dewi o Ddyfed'), rector of Panteg, co. Monmouth, John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), Chester, E. P. Meredith ('Ieuan Gryg'), Monmouth, Jos. Bailey, Jr., London, Connop Thirlwall, bishop of St. Davids, Alfred Ollivant, bishop of Llandaff, Jas. Williams, F.R.C.S. ('Iago ap Gwilym'), Brecon, Joseph Joseph, Brecon, Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys'), Thomas Edwards ('Carnvaldwyn'), St. David's College, Lampeter, W. Downing Evans ('Leon'), Newport, co. Monmouth, Thomas Bevan ('Caradawc'), Thomas Anthony Bevan ('Ab Caradawc'), Llanhilleth, Mary Bevan ('Meillionen Glanwysg'), Richard Foulkes Edwards ('Risiart Ddu o Wynedd'), Plas Llanychan, near Ruthin, D. Williams ('Alaw Goch'), Aberdare, John Williams ('Clwydwyson'), Ruthin, Elias Jones ('Llew Hiraethog'), Hendre ddu, near Cerrigydrudion, Owen Davies ('Eos Llechid'), Llanllechid, Robert John Pryse ('Gweirydd ap Rhys'), Denbigh, Jno. Emlyn Jones ('loan Emlyn'), Ebbw Vale, Jno. Jones ('Mathetes'), Llangollen, Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'), Llanbrynmair, John Jones ('Idris Vychan'), Dolgellau, David Hughes ('Eos Iâl'), Llansantffraid, near Corwen, Dr. William Price, Pontypridd, Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), Conway, Thomas Edwards ('Sulien ap Iorwerth'), Corwen, Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), Tremadoc, Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw'), Sirhowy, Henry Harris Davies, M.A ., Ph.D. ('Pererin'), incumbent of Llangoed, William Morris ('Gwilym Tawe'), Swansea, Thomas Jones ('Tudur Ddu'), Llangollen, William Richard Johns ('Mathonwy'), Wick, Jonathan Reynolds ('Nathan Dyfed'), Edwin Foulkes ('Rhen Ddyrnwr'), Holyhead, John Jones ('loan Maethlu'), Holyhead, Thomas Hughes ('T. ab Gwilym'), Ruthin, Hugh Hughes ('Tegai'), Pwllheli, Thomas Jones ('Taliesin o Eifion'), Llangollen, L. W. Lewis ('Llew Llwyvo'), Evan Davies ('Myfyr Morganwg'), Pontypridd, Richard Pugh ('Telynor'), Corwen, Jno. Hughes ('Ceiriog'), Thos. Simon Jones, Ruthin, John Williams ('I[oa]n Madog'), Portmadoc, David Evans ('Dewi Glan Llugwy'), Llanrwst, Joseph Jones ('Caradog'), Bangor, William Jones ('Publisher of 'Y Bedyddiwr' from 1855 to 1859'), Cardiff, Joseph Thomas ('Josephus Eryri'), Liverpool, Griffith William Thomas ('Mab Afonwyson'), Chester, John William Jones ('Barlwyd'), Liverpool, John James, B.D. ('Cynfab'), Liverpool, Thomas Williams ('Cynydr'), Crickhowell, David Lewis ('Ehedydd Gwent'), Llanwenarth, David Morgan ('Mynyddawc'), Llangeitho, curate of St. David's, Ffestiniog, D. Howell ('Llawdden'), Ll. Williams ('Bardd Cefn Mabli'), Blaenau Gwent, Thomas Evan Watkins ('Eiddil Ifor'), Blaenau Gwent, Daniel Seys Lewis ('Ifor Gwent'), Ebbw Vale, Sara Morgan ('Morvudd Glan Wysg'), Llangattock iuxta Usk, E. M., Llangattock Court, Aneurin Jones ('Aneurin Fardd'), Gelligroes, Robert Parry ('Robyn Ddu Eryri'), John Jones ('loan Prydydd Gwent'), Gelligroes, John Thomas ('Ifor Cwm-gwys'), Troed-y-rhiw, Thomas Jones ('Eos Glan Rhymni'), Bedwas, William Thomas ('Islwyn'), Thomas Michael ('Ab loan Brycheiniog'), Evesham, Rees Williams ('Blwchaiarn'), Vaenor, Rees Lewis ('Ab Tudful'), printer, Merthyr Tydfil, William Evans ('Cawr Cynon'), Merthyr Tydfil, Evan Roberts, Furnace Manager, Merthyr Tydfil, Theophilus Williams ('Glan Cleddau'), Merthyr Tydfil, David Caleb ('D.C.'), Merthyr Tydfil, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st baron Aberdare, Duffryn, Aberdare, Evan Davies, A.M., Swansea, J. Rhys Jones ('Kilsby'), Llanwrtyd, John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt'), Aberdare, Sarah Edith Wynne ('Eos Cymru', 'Pencerddes'), Liverpool, Daniel Thomas Williams ('Tydfylyn'), Merthyr, Thomas Levi, Ystradgynlais, Thomas Robinson, Merthyr Tydvil, Rhys (Gwesyn) Jones, Joseph Thomas ('Ab Cenydd'), Cardiff, George French Davis, Professor of Music, John Wilkes, organist of St. David's, Merthyr, H. Humphreys ('Peblig'), Caernarvon, Margaret Montgomery ('Angharad Gwent'), David Evans, B.A., Trevecca College, Thomas Walters, rector of Ystradgynlais, P. Sainton, G. Piaque, Jos. Schreurs, George Dolley, A. Pollitzer, Meyer Lutz, Charlotte Helen Dolby, Merthyr Tydfil, Henry Vincent, London, Thomas Vaughan ('tailor-poet'), Hereford (continued)

Robert Jones ('Cyrus'), Bethesda, William Jones ('Gwilym Ilid'), Caerphilly, Rachel Williams ('Gweddw Gwilym Morganwg'), Cardiff, Taliesin Williams ('Ab Gwilym Morganwg'), Caerphilly, John Williams ('Ap Gwilym Morganwg'), Cardiff, N. Bennett, Trefeglwys, Flavell Edwards, editor of Hereford Times, Charles Anthony, Hereford, James Price, M.D. ('Cymro Llawen'), Brixton, Edward Capern ('The Rural Postman and Poet'), Bideford, W. Owen Pughe ('Gwilym Owain o Feinon'), Rob. Roberts, astronomer, Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), Thos. Powel ('Hywel Cynog'), Dowlais, 1834 (personal, reference to 'Ab Iolo', etc.), Joseph Harris ('Gomer'), Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron'), Thos. Williams ('Gwilym Morganwg'), Thos. Ap Catesby Jones, secretary of the United States Navy, George Gordon, 6th baron Byron, David Owen ('Brutus'), 1858 (the employment of the writer's daughter by a solicitor at Abergavenny), D. Rhys Stephen, Newport [co. Monmouth], 18So (the departure of the writer's wife and daughter from Newport), Charles Morgan, Tredegar, 1809 (the writer's concurrence with the proposed measure to unite all roads in co. Brecknock by incorporating the two Trusts), John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'), Thomas Edwards ('Caervallwch'), London, 1835 (2) (the writer's Dictionary, the writer's success at the Eisteddfod, comments on the Welsh termination '-awc', enclosing circulars, thanks for Eisteddfod programme), W. Williams, Aberpergwm, 1838 (the return of a book, a subscription of £21 to the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion, the success of the Welsh Manuscripts Society and their indebtedness to Lady Hall), Saml. R. Meyrick, Goodrich Court, 1841 (admission to Christ's Hospital, London), Saml. Evans, editor of Seren Gomer, Carmarthen, 1849 (personal) (incomplete), [Evan? Williams] 'Ieuan Morganwg', Walker Iron Works, Newcastle on Tyne, 1853 (personal), Richard Jones ('Rhydderch Gwynedd'), Twynyrodyn (1845), John Jones ('Tegid'), Christ Church, Oxford, 1838 (the writer's subscription [to 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni'), J. Blackwell ('Alun') (1830), John Elias ('o Fôn'), Robt. Davies ('Bardd Nant-glyn'), M. Williams ('Nicander'), Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), Walter Wilkins, Maeslough (1809), Dd. Davies, Langattock Crickhowell (1808), John Davies ('Brychan Bach') (1837), J. Jones ('Ioan Edred'), Goitre Wharf, Jno. Rees, Penydaren I[ron] Works, Merthyr (1848), Thomas Gwallter Price ('Cuhelyn'), 1853 (a receipt for manuscripts), Thomas Williams ('T. ab Gwilym'), Quaker's Yard, Robert Lloyd Morris ('Rhuvoniawc'), Tremadoc, 1859 (greetings), John Evans ('Ieuan ab Gruffydd'), London (1844), Jo. Jenkins, Morlaix, 1835 (personal, greetings to the Reverend T. Hiley and James Lewis), Benjamin Jones ('P. A. Môn'), Carmarthen, 1830 (the distribution of books), Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') (a transcript of the memorial inscription of John Jones, family harpist to Sir B[enjamin] Hall, Llanofer, 1844, and extracts from printed sources), R[ichard] Williams ('Gwilym Ddu Glan Cynon'), Daniel Jones ('Gwerinwr'), Tongwynlas, Lewis Jones ('Iago Mynwy'), Mountain, near Aberdare, Daniel Morgan ('Daniel ab Gwilym'), Aberaman, Howel Williams ('Ap Gwylim Ddu'), Pant y Gerdinen, Aberdare, William Williams ('Carw Coch'), Trecynon, T. J. Jones ('Cynonwyson'), Trecynon, John Jones ('Eiddil Glan Cynon'), Aberdare, Philip John, Aberdare, Walter Lloyd (publisher of Y Gwladgarwr), Aberdare, David Griffith ('Clwydfardd'), Denbigh, Thomas Jones ('Glan Alun'), Mold, John Davies ('Gwyneddon'), Bangor, Josiah Thomas Jones, Aberdare, John Ambrose Lloyd ('Emrys Llwyd'), Chester, James Davies ('Iago ab Dewi'), Aberdare, Roger Williams ('Gwilym Llywel'), Merthyr Tydfil, Abel Seth Jones ('Evrawc'), Aberdare, John Thomas ('Ieuan Morgannwg' [otherwise 'Pencerdd Gwalia']), Hughe William Hughe ('Huw Arwystl'), Dinas, Thomas Evan James ('T. ab Ieuan'), Glyn-neath, Morgan Davies ('Morganwysion'), Goitre, William Roberts ('Nefydd'), Philip Morgan ('Dyfnwal'), Morriston, Moses Cule ('Moesen' or 'Moesen Gwernygerwn'), Pentrebach, Pontypridd, John Griffiths, The Rectory, Neath, William Thomas ('Gwilym Mai'), Carmarthen, Thomas David ('Dewi Wyn o Esyllt'), Dinas Powis, Hugh Cefni Parry ('Hywel Glan Cefni'), Talybont, co. Cardigan, William Jones ('Gwrgant'), London, Hugh Owen, Whitehall, London, Thomas Price, M.A., Ph.D. ('Pridwerth'), Aberdare, E. G. Price, Aberdare, Jno. Morris Jones ('Cunllo'), Rhydlewis, William Davies ('Gwilym Teilo'), Llandeilofawr, Benjamin Williams ('Gwynionydd'), Penboir, William Williams ('Creuddynfab'), Stalybridge (continued)

Wm. Gwynne Stedman Thomas, Carmarthen, Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn'), Edward Williams Gee ('Iorwerth Clwyd'), Denbigh, Robert Lloyd ('Eos Clwyd'), Ystalyfera, John Francis ('Mesmonydd'), Manchester, Kate Wynne ('Llinos Gwynedd'), Holywell, Frances Mathews ('Gwenfron'), Cardiff, Eliza Hughes, London, Lewis W. Thomas, London, H. Hussey Vivian, Swansea, Crawshay Bailey, Aberaman, Tho. Williams, editor of Star of Gwent, John Griffiths, vicar of Llandilofawr, Morgan Williams ('Sylvanus'), Merthyr Tydfil, Thomas Williams ('Cilfynydd'), Quaker's Yard, John Jones ('Mc Ebrill'), Aberdare, N. Martin, Paris, John Evans ('Ieuan Wyn'), Pontypridd, George Lewis Hiley ('Ifor Emrys'), Llanelly, co. Brecknock, Frederick Wicks, London, John Williams Morgan ('Ifan Ebwy'), Beaufort, Thomas Gee, Denbigh, Titus Lewis, F.S.A. ('Titan'), St. Quentin's, Cowbridge, etc., Benjamin Evans, Aberdare, editor of Seren Cymru, etc., Wm. Lloyd Jones ('Myllyn'), London, David Watkin Jones ('Dafydd Morganwg'), Merthyr Tydfil, John Griffith ('Wmffra') ('Gohebydd Llundain y Faner'), John Lloyd ('Sallwg'), Merthyr Tydvil, John Lloyd Davies, M.P., Blaendyffryn [Llanfair Orllwyn] (a note on the marriage of Robert surnamed the Pious, son of Hugh Capet), J. James ('Iago Emlyn') (an 'englyn'), Thos. Thomas, D.D., President of the Baptist College, Pontypool, George Thomas, M.A., Classical Tutor of the Baptist College, Pontypool, John Rhys Morgan ('Lleurwg'), Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant'), Ebenezer Morris, Blaenywern [Betws Ifan] (1825), J. H. Jones [tutor at Trevecca College], Robt. Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'), J. M. Thomas ('Amicus' and 'Hwntw'), Cardigan, D. Silvan Evans (1847), J. R. Jones [Ramoth], Evan Jones ('Gwrwst'), Benj. Price ('Cymro Bach'), T[homas] Price, Ll.D., editor of Eclectic Review, H. L. Davies ('Bardd Coch'), vicar of Cenarth, Rebecca Sophia Evans (aft. Williams) ('Rebecca Mabws'), Mabws, Mathry, David Davies ('Dewi Emlyn'), T. Emlyn Thomas ('Taliesin Craigyfelin'), Christmas Evans, John Jones ('Pyll'), Joshua Morgan ('Rhifyddegwr Egwan'), Clydach Iron Works (1824) (a promissory note), Rice Rees [Llandovery], J. Dorney Harding, Doctors Commons, 1838, Wm. Lewis, Llangefni, Owain Williams, Waunfawr (a note on an edition of the works of Goronwy Owain), John Prydderch Williams ('Rhydderch o Fôn'), Rhyl, E. W. Davies ('I. G. ab Dafydd'), Liverpool, Robert Hughes ('Robin Wyn o Eifion'), Bangor, Thomas G. Jones ('Tavalaw'), Holywell, Thos. Thomas, Swansea, W. Williams ('Gwilym ab Gwilym Lleyn'), Caernarvon, Wm. Bulkeley Hughes [Plas Coch, Anglesey], Charles Wynne [aft. Wynne-Finch, of Voelas], [Sir] Llewelyn Turner [Parcia, Caernarvon], G. S. D. Pennant [aft. 2nd baron Penrhyn], James Rees (of the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald), Eunice Jones, Liverpool ('merch Pedr Fardd'), Hugh J. Hughes ('Eos Tegyd'), Rome, N.Y., Newman Hall, Carnarvon, William Hicks Owen, Rhyllon, St. Asaph ('Brother in law to Mrs. Hemans'), Wm. Williams ('Caledfryn'), John Evans ('I. D. Ffraid'), David Roberts ('Dewi Ogwen'), Caernarvon, Aristote Terrieu (native of Loch Ryan, Morbihan), E. Stephen ('Tanymarian'), Morris Jones ('Meurig Idris'), Criccieth, John Hugh Evans ('Ehedydd'), Bangor, John Jones ('Idrisyn'), Llan-dysilio Gogo, co. Cardigan, 1862 (enclosing two of the writer's portraits), William Edwards ('Gwilym Gwynedd'), Wrexham, William Morgan Williams ('Ab Caledfryn'), Groes Wen, Pont y Pridd, Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), Robt. Davies ('Cyndeyrn'), St. Asaph, Edward Edwards ('Morwyllt'), Llangefni, John Williams ('Eos Môn'), Llanerchymedd, Robert Llystyn Jones ('Llystyn'), Llandegai, David H. Jones ('Dewi Arfon'), Llanberis, John (Gaerwenydd) Pritchard ('Gaerwenydd'), Bethesda, Hugh Hughes ('Gethin'), Liverpool, C. Paget [? of Plas Newydd, co. Anglesey], John Elias Roberts ('loan Cemlyn'), Caernarfon, William John Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), Robt. J. Humphreys ('Arwyddfardd'), Edward Davies ('Iolo Trefaldwyn'), Adwy'r Clawdd, Evan Jones ('Ieuan Glan Soden'), Felinsynod, New Quay, David Charles (1812-1878) ('wyr i Charles o'r Bala'), John Jayne ('loan Glyncynon'), Ty Pantybeili, Llanelly, co. Brecknock, Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), Tho. Charles [Bala] (1797), How[el] Harris [Trevecca], Geo. Howell, rector of Llangattock Crickhowell, John Evans, B.D. ('loan Geler'), Crickhowell, Thos. Hughes (author of Tom Brown's School Days), Lin[coln's] Inn, Will. Edwd. Jayne, Panty Baileau [sic], near Abergavenny, David Davies, Llantilio Crossenny (continued)

Jane Davies ('Merch Gwallter Mechain'), Taliesin Williams ['Taliesin ab Iolo'], Evan Jones, D. Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), William Thomas ('Tewdwr'), master of Crickhowell Grammar School, Wm. Jones ('Bragwr'), Talybont, co. Brecknock, William Jenkins, Dowlais Iron Works, Edw. Williams ('wyr Iolo Morganwg'), Dowlais Iron Work, John Arthur Herbert, Llanarth Court, A[ugusta] C[harlotte] E[lizabeth] Herbert ('Merch Arglwydd Llanover a Gwenynen Gwent'), Llanarth [Court], Aug[ust]a [ Hall] ('Arglwyddes Llanover') ('Gwenynen Gwent'), Anne Wheeley, The Pentre [Aber-gavenny], M. E. A. Hughes ('Morvydd Glan Tawe'), Morriston, George E. Williams, Abergavenny, Madame E. L. Williams ('Welsh Nightingale', 'Eos Cymru', 'Seren Cymru'), London, Mrs. E. A. Williams (the mother of 'Eos Cymru'), Geo. Osborne Morgan, J[ames] C[olquhoun Campbell], bishop of Bangor, J[ohn] Williams [Treffos, co. Anglesey], Isaac Foulkes ('Ffowcyn'), Liverpool, Joshua Evans, vicar of Llanover, W. H. Nicholl, The Ham, William Watkins, Welsh Collegiate Institution, Llandovery, William Evans, perpetual curate of Rhymney, Chrisr. Cook, incumbent [perpetual curate] of Mamhilad, John White, San Francisco, Cal., J. de Rovere, Julia de Rovere, London, W. J. Morrish, Ledbury [chaplain to Ledbury Union-house], William Harris ('Gwilym Vychan'), Aberdare, Gomer Leek ('Ceninfab'), Pyle, 'Aptommas', O. James ('Waldo'), Dowlais, Charles Williams, Ystalyfera, Richard Richards ('Nennius'), Morriston, William Williams ('Gwilym Gwent'), Brynmawr, Benjamin D. Thomas, Neath, William Madoc ('Ap Madoc'), Maesteg, William Frederick Frost ('Alaw'r Dyffryn'), Cardiff, Thomas David Llewelyn ('Llewelyn Alaw'), harpist, Mountain Ash, John H. Evans ('Alawydd Ogwy'), harpist, John Bryant ('Alawydd Glan Taf'), Llanilltyd Fardref, John Williams ('Golygydd y Byd Cymreig'), Newcastle Emlyn, William Evans ('Gwilym Cyrwen'), Aberdare, Humphrey Bradley Jones ('Garmonydd'), Bethesda, W. Williams ('Gwilym Medi'), Trecynon, M. J. Williams ('Llinos', late of Aberpergwm), E[lizabeth] A[nn] Williams, Ynyslâs (late of Aberpergwm), W. Geo. Davies, chaplain to J. C. Asylum, Abergavenny, Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau Vicarage, Oswestry, 1867 (enclosing an old prospectus of his last work [Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum, 1865], the writer's intention to publish a Cornish-Welsh Grammar), Joshua Williams, D[avid] Pugh [Manoravon, M.P. for Carmarthenshire], John Johnes, Dolaucothi, W[illiam] Spurrell, Carmarthen, David Davis ('Dewi Hir'), Cowbridge, Thos. O. Morgan, Aberystwith, Annie Edmonds ('Eos Morganwg'), London, Thos. Lewis, Carmarthen, Brinley Richards, Janet Patey otherwise Janet Patey Whytock [London], Henry Lazarus, London, William H. Cummings, London, Henry Leslie, London, Latimer Maurice Jones, The Vicarage, Carmarthen, H. Vincent Lewis, London, William Griffith ('Tydain'), Llewelyn Williams ('Cerddor y De'), John Carwad Hughes [Chester], David Henry ('Myrddin Wyllt'), Penygroes, co. Carmarthen, W. Graham, Jr., mayor of Newport, co. Monmouth, David Archard Williams, archdeacon of Carmarthen, Hugh Jones, Carmarthen, D. R. Watkins, surgeon, Carmarthen, H[ugh] W[illiam] Jones, Carmarthen, William Griffiths ('Alonzo'), Abersychan, Andrew Williams ('Ap Gwillym'), London, John Williams, B.A., Baptist minister, Abergavenny, D. Evans, Baptist minister, Newport, co. Monmouth, Alfred Thomas [aft. 1st baron Pontypridd], Cardiff, Martin Luther Evans, Merthyr, Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, 1st baron Tredegar, Rosamund Morgan, baroness Tredegar, H[enry] Gore Lindsay [of Glasnevin House, co. Dublin], John Griffith, rector of Merthyr, Geo. M. Rees ('Cilgwynog'), Nantyglo, Edward Lawrance ('Cerddor Tydfil'), Merthyr Tydfil, William Lewis [Abergavenny], James Charles Hill, Abergavenny, Arthur Griffiths, Llanelly, co. Brecknock, David Brythonfryn Griffiths, Aberdare, Evan Parry, surgeon, Crickhowell, Jacob Saunders, Abergavenny, William P. Evans ('Gwilym Dyfri'), Nantyglo Iron Works, William Stephens ('Gwilym Brycheiniog'), Brynmawr, Robert Rees ('Eos Morlais'), Swansea, Bessie M. Waugh ('Eos Mynwy'), Edmund Herbert, Llansantffraid, Alfred Stone, conductor of the Bristol Festival Choir, Moses Arthur Rees, headmaster, Docklow Academy, near Leominster, Edward Jones ('Brythonwr'), Garndiffaith, Joseph Harris Stephen ('Ap Shon Kent') ('Mab y Parch. David Rhys Stephen'), John Price Lewis ('Melltenydd'), Merthyr Tydfil, John R. Evans ('Ioan Egwest'), Merthyr Tydfi (continued)

Elizabeth Williams, Merthyr Tydfil ('Merch Taliesin Ab Iolo ac wyres i'r enwog Iolo Morganwg'), David Bowen, Dowlais Iron Works, organist to the South Wales Choral Union, T. E. Rowlands ('Eurglawdd'), Caerphilly, James Webber, master of Boy's National School, Abergavenny, Alfred Rosser, B.A., vice-principal, Diocesan Training College, Exeter, Charles Clagget Caird, accompanist, Tredegar, Fanny Isabel Morgan ('Bronwen Morganwg'), Treherbert, Moses H. Davies ('Ap Herbert'), London (late of Ebbw Vale), Wm. Norman Jones ('Gwilym Alaw') ('Welsh Tenor'), Abergavenny, Powell Thomas, London, William John Coussmaker Lindsay, Llanfair [Cilgedin] Rectory, Abergavenny, William Thomas Price ('Gwilym Tudno'), Llangollen, D. Llwyd James, D.D., vicar of Pont Robert, Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, London, Isaac Bevan ('Isaac Ddu o Lan Ebwy') ( Baptist minister, Clark's Green, Pennsylvania), William Davies ('Gwilym Ifor'), Clydach, near Abergavenny, Alfred Llewelyn Jenkins, Baptist missionary, Morlaix, Richard Cope Morgan, London, editor of The Christian (son of James Hiley Morgan, printer, Abergavenny), William Abbott, Hull, Samuel Heber Chapman, Liverpool College, John Davies ('Mavonwyson'), Pandy, near Abergavenny, T. Morgan Owen, M.A., H. M. Inspector of Schools, A. Brooke Clarke, Collyhurst, Manchester, Charles Anthony, Junior, Roger Price, missionary in South Africa, George Frederick Morris, sub-editor, Hereford Times, Sarah Ann Stowe ('Gertrude'), Hereford, Henry Llewellyn, publisher, Hereford Times, Elizabeth Catharine Poole ('Merch Caradawc-y- Fenni'), Hereford, Rhys Davies, Brecon (author of Sketches in Wales), John Davies ('Ioan Brycheiniog'), Talybont, Lumley R. Lumley ('Cardi Pen Mynydd'), Merthyr Tydfil, David Rhys Davies, School House, Talybont, Brecon, GwilymThomas ('Ap Eidydd'), Clydach, Charles Wilkins ('Cattwg'), Merthyr Tydfil, Mary Davies ('Merch Mynorydd'), Lizzie Evans, Evan James ('Ieuan ab Iago'), John Davies ('Ap Myfyr'), Pontypridd, David Evans ('Dewi Haran'), Pontypridd, Henry Mills ('Tafonwy'), Pontypridd, Isaac Watts, Baptist minister, Aber-gavenny, Anthony Griffiths ('Antoniensis'), Pontypridd ('Impromptu Lines. On being requested to give my Autograph'), Griffith Rhys Jones ('Caradog'), Treherbert, D. Rhys [secretary], National Eisteddfod, Birkenhead (1878) (a letter in connection with a portrait of 'Carnhuanawc'), David Mac Iver [M.P.], John Hughes [Liverpool], Robert Jones, vicar of All Saints, Rotherhithe, Edward Davies ('Iorwerth ap Huw'), Birkenhead, Edward Lloyd ('Tegfelyn'), Prenteg, Tremadoc, W. Cadwaladr Davies, Bangor, E. D. Williams ('Pencerdd Eryri'), Llanberis, Benjamin Evans ('Llywarch'), Birkenhead, C. W. Jones, secretary, Hon. Soc. of Cymmrodorion, William Ryle Davies ('Zeno'), Clwtybont, E. Garmon-Jones, John Roose Elias ('Y Thesbiad'), Stephen Evans, London, [Sir] Lewis Morris, Penbryn, Carmarthen, Thomas Jones ('T. Bangor'), Gruffydd Rees ('Eclecticus'), Birkenhead, Joseph Skeaf ('Pencerdd Lleifiad'), Liverpool, Jno. Evans ('Eglwys Bach'), David Jones ('Eos Mai'), Rhiwlas, Pentir, Bangor, O. E. Owen ('Tertius'), Birkenhead, A. J. Foli, London, Tho. M[c]K[enny] Hughes, Trin[ity] Coll[ ege], Cambridge, William Tegerin Hughes, Llanerchymedd, David S. Davies, Liverpool, Henry Roberts, Liverpool, Win. Lewis, Birkenhead, Martha Harries, London, John Morgan ('Glan Rheidiol'), Baptist minister, Llanwenarth, E. J. Reed, C.B., F.R.S., M.P., Hextable, co. Kent, David Lewis, mayor of Cardiff, Geo. Thomas ('Morganed'), Ely Farm, Cardiff, David William Jones ('Dewi Glan Taf'), W. P. John ('Mathonwy'), Cardiff, Thomas C. Evans ('Cadrawd'), Llangynwyd, David Williams ('Dafydd ap Gwilym Ddu'), Pontllanfraith, Thomas Williams ('Gobaniensis'), rector of Rotherfield Peppard, Emma Catherine Williams ('Tegwedd'), Mary Williams ('Morvydd'), Abergavenny, J. Edmund Jenkins ('Creidiol'), curate of Vaynor, Cefn Coed, Chas. H. James, M.P., Merthyr Tydfil, Henry Richard, M.P., Thomas Marchant Williams, Temple, London, Watkin B. Joseph ('Y Myfyr'), Colwyn Bay, Richard Jenkyn ('Yr Iwan'), Penypark, Cardigan, John Williams ('Glanmor'), Ebbw Vale, Jonathan Miles Jones ('Dic Shon Davydd'), Paris, Portage, co. Ohio, Evan Roberts ('Gwylltwaliwr'), Merthyr Tydfil, D. Emlyn Evans, Hereford, E. M. Williams, Merthyr Tydfil, David Jones Rowlands ('Morganiensis'), Merthyr Tydfil, Rhys T. Williams, Treherbert, D. C. Harris ('Caeronwy'), Llandeilo Fawr, Joseph Parry, W. Griffiths ('Ivander'), Evan Rees ('Dyfed'), Cardiff, J. Spencer Curwen ('Ap Pencerdd Dyrwent') (continued)

David Rowlands ('Dewi Môn'), Brecon, D. Rosser ('Asaph Cynon'), Pontypridd, Ellis Roberts, Llangwm Rectory, Corwen, Willm. Rees, Tonn, Llandovery, W. Meredyth Thomas, sculptor, London, etc. The photographic prints and engravings are those of Thomas Bevan ('Caradawc y Fenni') (3) (with 'englynion' by John Davies, 'Brychan'), John Jones ('Talhaiarn') (3) (with 'englynion' by T. Ashley, Morva Rhuddlan, and 'Talhaiarn'), Griffith Williams ('Gutyn Peris'), Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta, Robert Parry ('Robyn Ddu Eryri') (2) (with a covering letter by D. Morgan, 'Mynyddawc', Plymouth Iron Works), Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn'), Thos. Pennant, Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon'), Thomas Edwards ('o'r Nant'), David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron') (2), W. E. Jones ('Cawrdaf'), Dafydd Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), Thomas Vaughan ('Tailor Poet'), Hereford, Jno. Emlyn Jones ('Ioan Emlyn'), Thomas Thomas, D. D., President of the Baptist College, Pontypool, David Richards ('Dafydd Ionawr') (with a specimen of his penmanship and a covering letter from R. O. Rees, Dolgelley, [18]61), W. Owen Pughe ('Idrison'), Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), Owain Jones ('Myfyr'), Joshua Thomas, Leominster (2), Joseph Harris ('Gomer') (2), Christmas Evans (2), Thos. R. Davies [Baptist minister, Glanwydden], Francis Hiley, Llanwenarth, David Phillips, Caerleon ('Cofiadur Athrofa y Bedyddwyr yn Pontypwl'), John Elias, Benjn. Price ('Cymro Bach') (2), John Evans ('The Ill-favored Astrologer of Wales'), Sir Hugh Myddelton, Bart. ('The Projector of the New River Aqueduct'), [David] Griffiths, rector of Newern [sic], Theophilus Jones, Brecon (with 'englynion' by 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), Thos. Morris, D. Rhys Stephen (2), T. Price ('Carnhuanawc') (2), Ebenezer Richard, Tregaron, Thos. Richards, Fishguard, Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho, David Evans, Maesyberllan, W[illiam] Powell, B.D., vicar of Abergavenny, Micah Thomas [Abergavenny] (2), John Jones [Baptist minister], Merthyr, J[ohn] Williams [Baptist minister], Newtown, John Herring, Cardigan, David Jones [Baptist minister], Cardiff ( 2), Evan Jones ('Gwrwst'), John Jenkins [Baptist minister], Hengoed (2), D. D. Evans [Baptist minister], Pontrhydyrynn, D. Davies [Baptist minister], Haverfordwest, Timothy Thomas, Aberduar, Joshua Watkins, Carmarthen, Thomas Price [Aberdare], James James ('Iago Emlyn'), John Thomas ('Sion Wyn o Eifion'), Lewis Powell, Cardiff, W. Downing Evans ('Leon') (2) (with a holograph song and melody entitled 'Gwlad fy ngenedigaeth'. 'Land of my birth', 1837), Hugh Owen, London, Joseph Thomas, Cardiff, John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia') (with an 'englyn' by 'Talhaiarn'), Brinley Richards (4) ( with an 'englyn' by 'Talhaiarn', 1862), William Jones ('Gwrgant') (with a covering letter, 1862), Morris Williams ('Nicander') (with a covering letter, 1862), Sarah Edith Wynne, Lewis William Thomas, London, Eliza Hughes, London, William Rees, printer and publisher, Llandovery, Jno. Rhys Morgan ('Lleurwg'), J. Ceiriog Hughes, William Griffith ('Tydain'), secretary, Welsh Manuscript Society, Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), David Roberts ('Dewi Ogwen'), Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn'), Jonathan Reynolds ('Nathan Dyved') (2), David Morgan ('Mynyddawc') (2), Thomas Jones ('Glan Alun'), Felicia Hemans (with a fragment of a holograph manuscript), W[illiam] Hicks Owen ('Owain ap Bradwen') (brother-in-law of Mrs. Hemans), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'), Thomas Phillips, Hereford, secretary, British and Foreign Bible Society, John Jones ('Idrisyn'), James Howell, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Isaac Bevan ('Isaac Ddu o Lan Ebwy'), Elizabeth Davis (nurse in the Crimean War), John Jayne, Panty Bailey (with his youngest sons Basil Jayne and Francis John Jayne), William Edward Jayne ( eldest son of John Jayne), Rees Lewis ('Ap Tydfil'), printer and publisher, Merthyr Tydfil, W. Williams ('Caledfryn'), William Morgan Williams ('Ab Caledfryn'), Lloyd Jones (?'Myllyn'), David James ('Dewi o Ddyfed'), rector of Panteg, co. Monmouth, Henry Harries Davies ('Pererin'), vicar of Llangoed, etc., Jenkin Thomas, Oxford, Ellis Roberts ('Telynor Tywysog Cymru') (with a holograph 'englyn' by 'Talhaiarn'), 'Teilo', David Watkin Jones ('Dafydd Morganwg') (with a covering letter, 1866), John White, E. L. Williams ('The Welsh Nightingale', 'Seren Cymru', 'Eos Cymru'), Geo. Howell, rector of Llangattock Crickhowell, John Evans, rector of Crickhowell, T. Williams ('Cynydr'), Crickhowell (continued)

W[illiam] Spurrell, H. W. Jones, Carmarthen, David Archard Williams, archdeacon of Carmarthen, T. Lewis, Carmarthen, Latimer M. Jones, Carmarthen, John Owen ('Owain Alaw') (2), Mr. [ ] Rees (winner of the £50 Scholarship, Carmarthen Eisteddfod, 1867), Thomas Burgess, bishop of Salisbury, Connop Thirlwall, bishop of St. Davids, Wm. Thomas ('Gwilym Mai'), Daniel Seys Lewis ('Ifor Gwent'), Miss [ Annie] Edmonds, John Jenkins, Morlaix, John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd marquess of Bute, Griffith R. Jones ('Caradog'), Edward Lawrance, Merthyr Tydfil (with a covering note, 1873), Thos. Stephens, Merthyr Tydfil (with a covering letter, 1873), John Price Lewis ('Melltenydd'), D. Evans, Newport, Henry Richard, M.P. (2), Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'), Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, 'Gertrude Hereford', Hereford Times Office, Hereford, Charles Anthony, editor, Hereford Times, L. R. Lumley and Evan Roberts, Merthyr Tydfil, David Evans ('Dewi Haran'), Pontypridd, Thomas Essile Davies ('Dewi Wyn o Esyllt'), John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd marquess of Bute, James Price, M.D. ('Cymro Llawen'), Chas. H. Price ('Cymro o Gymry'), Clapham, London, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st baron Aberdare, Sir Lewis Morris, Robert Rees ('Eos Morlais'), W. J. Edwards ('Gobaniensis'), Manchester, Henry James, Q.C., M.P., Solicitor-General, etc. Also included in the volume are a few casts of individual seals; a certificate of appointment of Thomas Bevan ('Caradawc') to membership of 'Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion y Fenni', 1833; a transcript of the memorial inscription of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), together with a printed copy; a certificate of the graduation of Thomas Bevan ('Ab Caradawc') as Ovate of the Gorsedd of Gwent and Dyfed, 1834; printed items, including a poem in strict metres entitled 'Llawer mewn ychydig' by 'Caradawc', a circular letter entitled 'Y Llythyreniaeth Gymreig' distributed to members of 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni', 1840, the words of a ballad 'Anita' sung by Mr. W. H. Cummings at the Carmarthen National Eisteddfod, 1867, 'Englynion i Garadawg y Fenni' by 'Arfonwyson', 'T. ap Gwilym', 'Brychan', and 'Llew Llwyvo', stanzas entitled 'The Rescued Colliers in the Welsh Rhondda Valley, April 1877' by Sarah Ann Stowe, Hereford, notices of the National Eisteddfodau at Birkenhead, 1878, and Merthyr Tydfil, 1881, and the South Wales Chair Eisteddfod at Cardiff, 1879, and 'Brinley Richards. A biographical sketch'; and press cuttings, including 'Englynion i Goflyfr Mr. T. Befan (Caradog), Abergafeni' by 'Llanc o'r Coed', 'Unveiling a Monument of the late Dr. Emlyn Jones ['loan Emlyn'], at Ebbw Vale', 1878, 'At the Tomb of Iolo Morganwg', 1876, 'Caradoc [Griffith R. Jones]. The Story of his Life', 'Welsh Curiosities. (By Antonius of Pontypridd.)', and 'Ymweliad Caradawc o' r Fenni a Phontypridd'. The volume is partly indexed by the compiler. On the fly- leaf is a printed label inscribed ' "Y gwir yn erbyn y byd"; ac enwau gwyr a wiriant hyny, "Yn wyneb haul a llygad goleuni", Yn nghydag anghraifft [ sic] o Lawysgrif athrylithgar feib yr awen, &c. "Gorau cof, cof llyfr". Caradawc. Y Fenni, Alban Elfed. 1858'. The spine is lettered 'Enwau Beirdd a Llenorion' Cymru. Duw a phob daioni'.

'Amrywion',

A composite volume, the contents including: pp. 1-2, an English prose rendering of a 'cywydd' by Tudur Aled requesting a horse from the Abbot of Aber Conwy, the first line of the original being 'Gydag un a geidw Gwynedd . . .'; p. 3, 'Names of the Horse', a list of equivalents in several languages; pp. 3-15, 'Extracts from the historical triads of Britain' followed by several quotations and extracts relating to the horse; p. 17, a formal acknowledgement, 1794, from T. W. Wrighte, secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, of the second part of William Owen [-Pughe]'s dictionary; pp. 19-44, an English translation of the beginning of Llyfr y Tri Aderyn . . . by Morgan Llwyd (for an edition of the Welsh text see Thomas E. Ellis (ed.), Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd, vol. 1, (Bangor, 1899), pp. 157-89); p. 45, eleven verses beginning 'Mi glowais newydd digri . . .', and an 'englyn' beginning 'Dannod lliw'r manod ai Mîn, dannod Twyll . . .'; p. 47, a list of words headed 'New Holland Language'; pp. 49-86, vocabularies, notes on languages, etc.; pp. 87-110, a Cornish-English vocabulary (A-C), headed 'from a Mss at Mr Halsells wrote about 1710' ('30 years ago' deleted), as well as Cornish versions of the Lord's Prayer; pp. 111-18, a Welsh-English vocabulary; pp. 125-56, 'Egwyddor y Prif Gristnogion Neu reol y Bywyd wedi ei adnewyddu Gyda dull o wir dduwioldeb A'r modd i brofi ein buchedd yn gyfatebol', based on Hugh Turford, Sylfaen Buchedd sanctaidd . . . (Caerfyrddin, 1773), tt. 55-103; pp. 159-68, 'Awdyl voliant i Rys ab Gruffydd ap Howel ap Gruffydd ap Ednyfed Vychan o Von', by Einion Ofeiriad [sic] dated 1280, in the hand of Edward Williams, 'Iolo Morganwg', beginning 'Rhys ap Gruffudd fudd feiddiaw rhoddiawdr rhyssedd . . .'; pp. 179-87, a holograph copy sent to Mr. Thomas Roberts, Goldsmith, of an elegy entitled 'Awdl . . . goffadwriaeth am . . . Goronwy Owain sef Testyn y Gwyneddigion . . . 1803' by 'Eliwlod' [= David Owen, 'Dewi Wyn o Eifion'] (cf. Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, Awdlau Coffadwriaeth am y Parchedig Goronwy Owain . . . 1803 (Llundain, [1803]), tt. [9]-18); pp. 191-3, printed proposals, 1789, for printing A Welsh and English Dictionary . . . by William Owen; pp. 195-6, five stanzas entitled 'Peace' beginning 'The Song of Peace who would not gladly sing . . .'; p. 197, a broadside containing an elegy by Dafydd Ionawr [David Richards], Marwnad y Seneddwr Enwog, Thomas Williams o Fon Esquire (Dolgellau: T. Williams, 1803); p. 199, a printed notice of an eisteddfod to be held at Caerwys, Whitsuntide 1798, under the auspices of the Gwyneddigion Society; and pp. 202-47, a draft introduction by William Owen [-Pughe] to his dictionary, most of which is crossed out, together with miscellaneous linguistic material.

Barddoniaeth

Poetry by and in the hand of David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'); poems by William Edward, Llanedwen, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd') and Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'); prose items.

Barddoniaeth

Poems by David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), Griffith Williams ('Gutyn Peris'), Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain') and others; a few printed poems; letters to 'Dewi Wyn o Eifion' (David Owen) from 'Dafydd Ddu Eryri', J[ohn] R[ichard] Jones and David Jones, Llangollen; etc.

Barddoniaeth

Poetry and transcripts by John Thomas ('Sion Wyn o Eifion') and poems by his uncle, John Roberts ('Sion Lleyn'), Griffith Williams ('Gutyn Peris'), John Henry Hughes, David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Richard Parry, Newborough, and others.

Barddoniaeth 'Dewi Wyn O Eifion', etc.

Poetical compositions by David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), including 'Cywydd am Fawredd [Jeh[ofa], 'Cywydd Cenfigen a chelwy[dd]', 'Englynion i Robert Davis o Nantglyn', 'Englyn i'r Llyfr A gasglwyd gan yr Unrhyw Robert Dav[ ]', 'Dau Benill ir unrhyw', 'Yr unrhyw Lyfr a Elwid Cnewyllyn Mewn gwisg I ba un y Canwyd fel y Canlyn', '[C]arol plygain yn dangos (?)C[rist yn] D[d]uw ag yn ddyn ...', 'Cerdd yn datgan rhan o gyffes pechadur ...], 'Carol plygain yn dangos mawr gariad crist Tu ag at Ddynion ...', 'Englyn i Dduw', 'Cywydd y Farn', 'Cerdd a gymerwyd allan o'r II Corinth pen V adn 10 ...', ['Awdl ar ryfeddol allu Duw'], 'Englyn i roi ar fedd ...', 'Dau englyn ynghylch Elfan y Bardd', 'Hymn ... yn dangos crist y Siampl i Ddyn', 'Hymn ... yn Dangos bodlondeb y Duwiol', 'Cerdd yn Annog i beidio a phechu ag i Droi yn ol At ras', 'Englyn I'r Iesu', 'Carol plygain yn dangos crist yn Trechu r Llygredd ...', 'Awdl ynghylch ysbrydol gariad', 'Englyn i ofyn maidd', 'Englynion mewn Perthynas i dd[ioddefaint] Ein Iachawdwr', and verses 'Tros Wilym Huw ... 1803'; verses entitled 'Midnight Thoughts' by D. W.; three holograph letters from D. Owen, Pwllhely and Gaerwen, one to John Thomas ['Siôn Wyn o Eifion'], Chwilog (an eisteddfod to be held at Tref Madoc, 20 September 1811), and two to Ebenezer Thomas, ['Eben Fardd'], Schoolmaster, Llanarmon, undated (D. Williams has indicated to John Nichols that he does not mean to finish the translation); holograph lines beginning 'Ow mrawd bach mawr yw dy boen ...' (cf. Cywydd y Bardd i'w anwyl frawd); englynion by [Hugh Evans] 'Hywel Eryri', composed after the death of 'Dewi Wyn o Eifion'; part of a letter from Morris Williams ('Nicander') to Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') [13 October 1858]; press-cuttings relating to 'Dewi Wyn'; transcripts by John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') of some of the foregoing compositions by 'Dewi Wyn' and of some from other sources; and a number of loose items, including a holograph letter from D. Owen ['Dewi Wyn o Eifion'], Gaerwen to the Reverend Thomas Parry, Bangor, 1839, together with a transcript (cf. Cwrtmawr MS 412), a letter from Ellis Anwyl Owen to John Thomas ['Siôn Wyn o Eifion'], Chwilog, 1841 (the date of baptism of David Owen ('Dewi Wyn'), and a request to the addressee with regard to the date of death of '- Parry Bach Solicitor'), a copy of Yr Araith Satanaidd ar Eglwysi Sefydledig a Degymau (Caernarfon: Josiah Thomas Jones, 1835), and a translation into Welsh by R. Ivor Parry of the will of David Owen ['Dewi Wyn o Eifion'], 13 June 1837.

Barddoniaeth,

An imperfect draft of 'Awdl Amaethyddiaeth' by David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'); 'Gweddi ac erfyniad Miss Amelia J. Clough pan oedd yn glaf ...' by Roger B. Clough, 2 July 1821; 'Cerdd a wnaed ar yr achlysur fod Bidulph wedi ennill y dydd ar Lloyd Kenyon i fynd yn aelod o'r senedd dros y Borough swydd Ddinbych', by Enoch Jones [1807]; 'Llinellau ar Rodney March' and 'englynion' by William Hughes, 'Pen y Bont wrth y felin, Llangwm'; 'Darlun y Parchedig John Williams Llansilin ...' by Jonathan Jones, Cefn Mawr, 1836; verses beginning:- 'Wrth hanes a thôn y siarad a'r sôn'; 'marwnad coffadwriaeth am Alsy Owenes ... o Lawr Cilan' by John Cain; 'englynion' by 'Alltud Eifion', 1862; 'englynion William Jones'; 'tribanau i'r ffon'; a hymn by Peter Llwyd; and 'englynion i'r Seren'.

Barddoniaeth,

A volume containing transcripts of Welsh verse in strict metre (consisting mainly of 'cywyddau') transcribed, October [18]89 - February [18]90, by I[saac] F[oulkes] [newspaper proprietor and publisher]. Many of the poems are annotated to indicate that they were copied out of a volume in the possession of 'W.J.' of Llangollen, and the whole work appears to be an incomplete transcript of NLW MS 670D, which itself consists of a collection of Welsh poems transcribed by William Jones ('Bleddyn'), antiquary, local historian, etc., of Llangollen. The poets whose work is represented include Gwerfil Mechain, Howel Dafi alias Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rys (Bardd Raglan), Sion ap Phelppot, Robert ap Dafydd Llwyd, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (o Fathafarn), John ap Howel ap Tudur, Huw Cae Llwyd, Lewys Daron, Bedo Brwynllys, ? Gruffydd ap Ieuan Fychan, Syr Rhys o Garno, Morus ap Hywel ap Tudur, Gruffydd Hiraethog, Huw Llwyd Cynfael, Ifan Tew, Dafydd Nanmor, Cadwaladr Cesail, Huw Ifan ap Huw (o'r Bryn bychan), John Ifan, Rhisiart Cynwal, Huw Machno, Syr John Leiaf, Huw Pennant, Rhys Nanmor, Sion Dafydd Penllyn alias Sion Dafydd Las alias y Bardd Meddw (o Nannau), Syr Dafydd Owain, Gruffydd ab Ieuan ab Llewelyn Fychan, Hywel Cilan, Lewis Môn, Hywel Gethin, Efan ab Gruffydd Leiaf, Watkyn ab Risiart, Hywel ap Reinallt, Mathau Bromffield, Watkyn Clywedog, William Lleyn (Bencerdd), William Cynwal, Simwnt Fychan (Bencerdd), Euan Llafar, Thomas Prys (o Blasiolyn), William Vaughan, Huw Arwystli, Sion Phylip, Richard Phylip, Ifan Dyfi, Lewis Menai, Dafydd Owen, and Llewelyn ap Gutyn. A note on p. 123 indicates that three 'englynion' by [Thomas Edwards] 'Twm o'r Nant', which were to be found at this point in W[illiam] J[ones]'s volume [NLW MS 670D], had not been copied by the transcriber, as he intended including them in a proposed new edition of that poet's works, to be published by him in 1889. A second note on the same page indicates that, similarly, fourteen 'cywyddau' by Tudur Aled had not been transcribed in the present volume, but had been copied into another book, with the intention of publishing these and other poems by the same bard, together with poems by Guto'r Glyn and Sion Tudur. In fact, fourteen 'cywyddau' and four other poems by Tudur Aled, and all of the poems by Guto'r Glyn and Sion Tudur, which appear in NLW MS 670D, have been omitted from the present volume, the presence of poems by the two latter bards in NLW MS 670D being usually indicated by the transcriber by quoting the title, or title and first line, of such works. A note on p. 153 states that eighty ' cywyddau' by Dafydd ap Gwilym [which appeared in William Jones's book, i.e ., NLW MS 670D, pp. 149-263], had been used to correct the published edition of that poet's work ('Yma daw LXXX Cywydd o waith Dafydd ab Gwilym, y rhai a ddefnyddiwyd i gywiro ei waith argraffedig'). These eighty poems, and also five retaliatory poems composed by Gruffydd Grug, in a poetic contention with Dafydd ap Gwilym, and found interspersed among the eighty 'cywyddau', have been omitted from the present volume. A further note on p. 264 states that the last three 'cywyddau' [in NLW MS 670D] had not been copied, as the transcriber believed the text to be so corrupt, that they did not merit transcription. A fly-leaf is marked 'Bk i', and this possibly connects the volume with NLW MS 19313, which, marked on a fly-leaf 'Bk ii', consists of a similar volume of Welsh verse transcribed, March - April [18]90, by I[saac] F[oulkes], again, by inference, from a book in the possession of W[illiam] J[ones].

Isaac Foulkes.

Barddoniaeth, llythyrau, etc.

A volume compiled by John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), containing 'cywyddau', 'awdlau', and free-metre poetry, partly holograph, by Row[land] Vaughan, John Rhydderch, William Ffylip, Rice Jones (1767), Sion Tudur, Willm. Cynwal, Richd. Davies 'Esgob Mynwy' [sic], Robt. Gruffydd ab Ieuan, Hugh Llyn, Elis ab Rhys ab Edward, Willm. Llyn, [John Davies] 'Y Bardd Glas', Robt. Dafydd ('Bardd Nantglyn'), Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd') (1821), Edward Charles (1798), 'Iorwerth ab Einion' (1817) (Meddyg Cyrn y ?Bwch), David Humphreys (1819), John Owen, 'Mab Evan Huw' (Harlech, 1834), Rowlant Jones, R. Jones (Penrhiw dwrch), and 'Meurig ab Cybi o Eifion' (Bangor) [i.e. Morris Williams, 'Nicander']; case in the hand of Thomas Pennant, Downing, of John Jones, son of Roger Jones of the parish of Bodvari against the commanding officer of the militia for extortion arising from the balloting of complainant for service, together with a holograph letter from T. Pennant, Downing, to William Middleton, Temple, London, 1781, and opinions of R. P. Arden and Willm. Walton both of Lincolns Inn, 1781; holograph letters from Thomas Roberts, Llwynrhudol, from London to John Roberts ['Sion Lleyn'], Pen yr Allt, Pwllheli, etc., 1801-5 and undated (3) (printed in [John Jones] 'Myrddin Fardd: 'Adgof Uwch Anghof' ..., Pen y Groes, 1883, pp. 81-2, 84-7), P[eter] B[ailey] Williams, Pantafon, Llanrug to R[ichard] Jones ['Gwyndaf Eryri'], 1823 ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', pp. 178-82), [Robert Jones] 'Tecwyn Meirion', L[iver]pool to David Lloyd, shoemaker, Llanystumdwy, 1833 (the shipment of coal to Cricieth and a complaint against the trading methods of Capt. Thomas of Chester and William Davies) (together with an 'englyn' and a stanza in English entitled 'Cymru Annwyl'), Robert Roberts, Pentre Lygen, to John Roberts ('Siôn Lleyn'], schoolmaster, Bodean, 1790 (personal, requesting news of the Association at Pwllheli, also requesting two shuttles ('dwy wenol') the one for linen and the other for cloth) (endorsed is a copy of a letter relating to the writer's elegy ('cywydd marwnad') to 'Robin Ddu' and the writer's appointment to be corresponding member ('aelod gohebol') of the Gwyneddigion), Evan Evans ['Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'], Chester to John Jones, printer, Trefriw, 1818 (Mr Parry's views on a publication, comments on the subjects of the Cambrian Society, the writer's work of translating, the recipient's 'englynion', a reference to 'Nwython' in a Bangor paper, the delivery of verses and essays at the Vicarage, Carmarthen), Ebenezer Thomas ['Eben Fardd'], Llanarmon; to Richard Jones ('Welsh Bard alias Gwyndaf Eryri'), Carnarvon, 1826 ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', pp. 209-10), and from Clynnog to John Thomas, 'Bard' ['Siôn Wyn o Eifion'], Chwilog, 1827 ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', pp. 211-14), Daf. Thomas ['Dafydd Ddu Eryri'] Waunfawr, etc., to John Roberts ['Siôn Lleyn'], 1789-1806 (3) ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', pp. 12-14, 18, 30-4) (the second letter, dated 1796 from Amlwch, contains a poem entitled 'Tragwyddoldeb'), Robt. Davies ['Bardd Nantglyn'] to John Roberts ['Siôn Lleyn'], 1808 ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', pp. 94), Wm. Williams (1738-1817), Llandegai, to David Thomas ['Dafydd Ddu Eryri'], 1806 ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', pp. 92-4, where William Williams is incorrectly identified as 'Gwilym Peris'), Robt. Jones ['Tecwyn Meirion'], Dutton St [Liverpool] to Richard Jones ('Gwyndaf Eryri'), 1833 (requests the sight of copies of Y Gwyliedydd containing the adjudication of Walter Davies ['Gwallter Mechain'] on the 'awdlau'), John Jones ['Ivon'], Aberystwyth to Ebenezer Thomas ['Eben Fardd'], 1843 (a request for poetry for publication in a proposed periodical entitled Y Cwmwl), [Thomas Lloyd Jones] 'Gwenffrwd', Dinbych to Robert Lloyd Morris, Holywell, [18]30 ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', pp. 226-8), Richard Jones ('Gwyndaf Eryri'), Caernarfon, to David Owen ['Dewi Wyn o Eifion'], Gaerwen, Llanystyndwy, 1831 ('Adgof Uwch Anghof', p. 117), John Pughe ['Ioan ab Hu Feddyg'], Barmouth to Ebenezer Thomas ['Eben Fardd'], 1841 (a list of subscribers to the recipient's [Caniadau], the success of the [Plymouth Brethren]), O[wen] Williams ['Owen Gwyrfai'], Waunfawr, to Robert Williams ['Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'], Betwsfawr, Eifionydd, 1830 (the request of 'Gytyn Peris' for an explanation on a Welsh proverb, the progress of the 'Geirlyfr' and its sale to the printer at Llanfaircaereinion), Evan Williams, Penyberth, Llanbedrog, to David Lloyd, shoemaker, Llanysdumdwy, (his concept of the muse, request for a copy of the 'englynion' addressed to the Dolbenmaen Society and for the rules of the society, etc.), [Reverend William Robert Davies, Dowlais] to Wm. Jones, draper, Rhoslan, undated (2) (a song by 'Brutus', news of ministers of religion, the Baptist cause at Garn and Capel y Beirdd, the progress of the Latter-Day Saints at Dowlais, local petitions against Sir James Graham's Bill and the Corn Laws), and Hugh Elias, Florence House, San Francisco, to [John Jones, 'Myrddin Fardd'], 1878 (the pedigree of the family of William Elias, Plas y Glyn); draft rules of 'Cymdeithas Gymroaidd Pwllheli', together with holograph copies of addresses to the Society by Evan Roberts, Robert Thomas, M[orris] W[illiams] 'Nicander', etc.; a letter from [Richard Jones, 'Gwyndaf Eryri'] to 'Mr. Gomer' [editor of Seren Gomer] complaining of injustices received at recent eisteddfodau; English verses entitled 'St David's Day, 1843. The following song was written for the Manchester Cymreigyddion Society ... and sung by the writer to the Harp, and for which he was awarded the Prize' by 'Garmon'; and a note on the pedigree of the families of Gwynn (Wynn) of Maesne[u]add; Glyncywarch, etc., with panegyric verses. Added to 'Pennillion i annerch Cymdeithas y Cymraegyddion yn 'Llundain. Y dôn yw blodau'r dyffryn' by Edward Charles is the following postscript, - 'Gresyn na fyddai beirdd Cymry yn 'r oes hon yn canu ar yr hên Geingciau cymreig fel y pennillion hyn: mae'nt hwyth[a]u yn barddoni y rhan fynycha, a'r ryw Geingciau seisnig, yr hyn sydd hollol anghyttun a pheroriaeth y Cymro'. On one of the fly-leaves is an imperfect list of correspondents in the hand of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), with additions in the hand of J. H. Davies.

Composite volume

A composite volume including a printed copy of Goulding and D'almaine's German Flute Tutor ...; a treatise on music with particular reference to instrumental music; a collection of Welsh and English airs followed by some poetry by Robert ap Gwilym Ddu and Dewi Wyn o Eifion.

Williams, Robert, 1766-1850

Copies of letters

Copies, mainly by John Jenkins, of letters written by William Owen [-Pughe], Peter Bayley Williams, Walter Davies, David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon), and S. Pryce (Meifod).

'Cronfa Dafydd Ddu', etc.

A composite volume compiled by Owen Williams, Fronheulog, Waunfawr in 1857. It comprises: I. 'Y Gronfa' (pp. 1-200), largely in the hand of David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), containing an introduction ('Y Rhagymadrodd') signed 4 October 1790; an English translation by D[avid] T[homas] of two lines of poetry by Gwalchmai; 'Cyfieithiad o Awdl Sibli (Sibyl's Ode, translated by the Revd. Gor[onwy] Owen)' ('See the above, versified in D. Thomas's poetical collection'); etymons of Mr Jones of Llanegryn, Mr L. Morris, and D. Tho[ma]s; extracts from letters from the Revd. Gor[onwy] Owen to Mr Richard Morris of the Navy Office, London, 1753-67; Welsh poetry by Bleddyn, Gwgon, Taliesin, Cynddelw [Brydydd Mawr], 'Guttun Gwrecsam' ('sef John Edwards neu Sion Ceiriog now dead'), Rhisiart Jones 'o Fôn, Syr Thomas Jones ('Iechyd i Galon yr hen offeiriad O na bai Gant o'i fath ynghymru y dydd heddyw'), Hywel ap Reinallt, Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (with a translation by Evan Evans ['Ieuan Fardd']), Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Thomas Celli, Tudur Aled, D[avid] Thomas, Owen Williams (Waunfawr) (c.1820), Rhys Jones 'o'r Blaenau', and Goronwy Owen; English poetry by Alexander Pope, John Dyer, and Thomas Gray; anecdotes and biographical notes relating to Gruffydd Hiraethog, William Phylip, Sion Tudur, William Lleyn, etc.; 'Athrawiaeth y Gorphwysiadau', being rules of punctuation, copied in 1809 ('not intended for public inspection'); observations in verse on 'Barddoniaeth Gymreig', for publication in the North Wales Gazette, 1818; a holograph letter from D. Thomas to Robt. Williams, land surveyor, Bangor, 1820 (plagiarism of one of the writer's poems, comments on the poetry of 'Gutyn P[eris]', results of the Wrexham eisteddfod); 'Sibli's Prophecy. A Fragment from the Welsh', translated by D. Thomas; 'A Discourse between St Kybi and other saints on their passage to the Isle of Bardsey ...'; epithalamia to Dafydd Thomas and Elin, his wife, by [John Roberts] 'Siôn Lleyn', [Griffith Williams] 'Gutyn Peris', [William Williams] 'Gwilym Peris', and Dafydd Owain ('Bardd Gwyn o Eifion', i.e. 'Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), 1803-4; reviews by 'Adolygwr' of 'awdlau' by Walter Davies ['Gwallter Mechain'] and Edward Hughes ['Y Dryw'] on 'Amaethyddiaeth' submitted for competition at Tre Fadog eisteddfod, 1811; and critical observations on Welsh poetry entitled 'Ystyriaethau ar Brydyddiaeth Gymraeg ai pherthynasau yn gynnwysedig mewn rhai nodiadau ar waith Mr. T[homas] Jones ['Y Bardd Cloff'] yn y Greal', by 'Peblig', Glan Gwyrfai [i.e. 'Dafydd Ddu Eryri'] (published in Golud yr Oes, 1863, pp. 118-23), together with copies of two letters, 1806, to the author from 'Padarn' [i.e. 'Gutyn Peris'] and John Roberts ['Sion Lleyn'] containing their observations on the views set forth in the treatise. Pp. 61-8 are in the autograph of Owen Williams, Waunfawr. The compiler has included a few cover papers from manuscripts of 'Dafydd Ddu Eryri' bearing such inscriptions as 'This Morrisian MS (with some others) I found at a Farmhouse called Braint near Penmynydd, Anglesey, Sept. 9th 1793. D. Thomas' (p. 123) and 'This MSS (with several others) has been bequethed to me, by the Rev. David Ellis, late Rector of Cruccaith in Caernarvonshire. D. Thomas' (p. 189). Ii. The works of Griffith Williams ('Gutyn Peris'), Braich Talog, Llandegai, - 'Sef Casgliad, O Ganiadau, Carolau, a Cherddi, Ac awdlau, a Chowyddau, Ac Englynion ...', transcribed by Owen Williams, Ty ycha'r ffordd, Waun fawr, Llanbeblig, 1811, together with a few 'englynion' by Goronwy Owen (pp. 201-48). Iii. 'Bywyd a Marwolaeth Godidog Fardd, Dafydd Thomas; neu Dafydd Ddu, o Eryri', being a biography collected and transcribed by Owen Williams, Waunfawr; 'Casgliad Barddonawl O Waith Dafydd Ddu o Eryri, Y rhai a gyfansoddodd Yn ol ei argraffiad o Gorph y Gaingc' (imperfect) (1 page), 'Englynion ar Fedd Dafydd Thomas' by Dafydd Owen ('Dewi Wynn o Eifion'), Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu' 'o'r Bettws Bach Eifion'), Griffith Williams ('Guttun Peris'), Richard Jones (Erw), Wm. Edward ('Gwilym Padarn'), and [Owen Williams]; 'englynion' by 'Dafydd Ddu Eryri', 1796-1815 and undated; and extracts from three letters from 'Dafydd Ddu Eryri' to P[eter] B[ailey] W[illiams], 1806-20 (the death of the recipient's parishioners in Llanberis and Llanrug, the death of the recipient's brother the Reverend Eliezer Williams, the displeasure of 'O[wain] Myfyr') (pp. 251-84). Iv. A transcript of Cofrestr o'r holl Lyfrau Printiedig ... (Llundain, 1717) (pp. 287-452). Inset are three leaves containing transcripts of a letter from Edmund Francis to [ ] (the writer's health, the recipient's preaching engagement) (incomplete) and of a letter from D. Thomas ['Dafydd Ddu Eryri'] to [John Roberts, 'Siôn Lleyn'], 1810 (the sale of the writer's [Corph y Gaingc]). Written on the inside lower cover is a long note by O[wen] Williams, Fronheulog, Waunfawr, 1857, of which the following is an extract, - 'Myfi a gesglais gynhwysedd y llyfr hwn o'r hen ysgrifiau a ddaeth i'm dwylaw oeddynt eiddo Dafydd Ddu Eryri ac a delais am eu rhwymo yn nghyd megys y gwelir yma er's llawer o flynyddoedd yn ol ...'.

Cronfa Spinther,

A collection, bound in two volumes, of holographs and some transcripts of letters by Welsh Baptists or of Welsh Baptist interest generally known as 'Cronfa Spinther'. The letters were originally brought together by, and, except where otherwise stated in the following description, were addressed to, the Reverend Ellis Evans (1786-1864), Baptist minister and historian, of Cefn-mawr, Denbighshire. Only four parts of the proposed Hanes y Bedyddwyr .... by Ellis Evans were published (Llangollen, 1860-4) and after his death the letters passed in turn to the Reverend William Roberts ('Nefydd'; 1813-72), Blaenau Gwent, who had contemplated a continuation of the History, the Reverend James (Spinther) James ('Spinther'; 1837-1914), author of Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Nghymru, 4 vols (Caerfyrddin, 1893-1907), and Principal J. H. Davies. The writers include Miles Harri, Pont y Pool to [Howell Harris], 1739-40 (3) (enclosing copies for sale of 'the first thing printed at Pontypool', the distribution of other religious publications) (extracts in the hand of Richard Bennett, Llanbrynmair, with two covering letters from Richard Bennett to ['Spinther'], 1903) (see 'Spinther': op. cit., vol. III, p. xii, and James Ifano Jones, A History of Printing and Printers in Wales ... (Cardiff, 1925), pp. 215-16); Robert Edwards [from Ruthin] to the Reverend Richard Jones, Ruthin [1792] (the writer's renunciation of paedobaptism and his defection from the Anglican church) (with orthographical revisions by 'Spinther' for publication), Archibald McLean, Baptist minister, Edinburgh to William Richards, Baptist Minister, [King's] Lynn, 1783, and to and from Andrew Fuller, Baptist theologian, Cetering [sic], 1796 (the doctrines and church order of McLean and his followers) (Welsh translations, with extracts from the New Evangelical Magazine, 1816, 1824, and with annotations, all in the hand of Ellis Evans), W[illia]m Roberts, Garegfawr [Holyhead] to Robert Roberts, Glanwydden, minister of Salem Baptist Church, Glan Conwy, 1793 (the success of the recipient's church and greetings to members, the death of the writer's only son) (transcript, with annotations, by Ellis Evans, with additional notes by Ellis Evans on the Reverend John Pritchard, Llangollen, 1796), J[ohn] (aft. J[ohn] R[ichard]) Jones, Baptist minister, Ramoth, etc. to David Richards, Baptist minister, Caerphilly, etc., 1795-1822 (21) (news of the writer and of individual members of Baptist congregations in Caernarvonshire, preaching engagements for the recipient in North Wales and for his brother Joseph in South Wales, the writer's views on the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the ordination of Edm[un]d Francis in Anglesey and the forthcoming ordination of W[illia]m Roberts in Lleyn and of E[van] Evans in Garn, the writer's defence against the recipient's criticism of his doctrines, the writer's collections towards the meeting-house at Harlech, the abandonment of Association meetings in Gwynedd, the corruption of ministers, charges of Antinomianism against the recipient, replies to questions by the recipient on faith and church order, the writer's proposed meeting with Archibald McLean in Liverpool, the recipient's charge that the writer referred oftener to McLean than to Jesus Christ, comments on the faith and order of the writer's church and on his relationships with the recipient's brother Joseph, observations on the Arminian doctrine attributed to [the Reverend] Titus Lewis, the recipient's visit to Merioneth, a request for news of South Wales Baptists, a criticism of methods used by Bible Societies, critical observations on 'Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol Charles o'r Bala', the death of McLean, the progress of the cause at Harlech since the split of 1817, news of the writer's sister Elizabeth Jones in Steuben (New York), revulsion at the conduct of the recipient's brother Joseph towards his own ailing son, the writer's illness, deplores the movements of Nonconformist ministers from one church to another, the split at Harlech and the building of Rehoboth meeting-house, the success of disciples of John Wesley in North Wales, the recipient's request for publications by McLean, news of the recipient's mother and of others in Llanuwchllyn, greetings from the writer's church, the death of Miss E. Price of Pwllypant) (including two transcripts for Ellis Evans, and with some additions by Joseph Richards), John [R] Jones, Ramoth to Archibald McLean, 1796-1806 (5) (Welsh translations by the writer of the recipient's publications, recent developments among North Wales Baptists, the order of service in the writer's church, progress among the writer's adherents, the 'late separation' at Dolgelley, the death of the writer's sister Sara Jones, an account of [the Reverend] John Edwards and the church at Glyn[ceiriog], reports on the churches at Crickerth [sic], Ramoth and Harlech, scriptural interpretations, the loss of the writer's last letter) (transcripts and one Welsh translation in the hands of J. R. Jones and Ellis Evans), Archibald McLean, Edinburgh to [J. R. Jones], 1796-1800 (4) (the success of the writer's church, secession, the writer's publications, the recipient's declining health, exposition of scriptural passages, a dispute with Joseph Richards on account of the latter's alleged Sabellian beliefs) (Welsh translations in the hands of J. R. Jones and Ellis Evans, with one endorsement by Ellis Evans recording 'Y bedyddiadau yn Llanufydd', the first entry dated 1795), Christmas Evans, Hugh Williams, and Edmund Francis, Baptist ministers, from Llangefni to [Archibald McLean], 1796 (the foundation of Llangefni church on the basis of the recipient's doctrines) (Welsh translation in the hand of Ellis Evans), Christmas Evans, Casbach [Castleton] to David Richards, Glan-cam-ddwr [Llanafan, near Builth], [17]95 (a request for collections from the churches at Pan[t] y Celyn, 'y bont newydd' [Newbridge] and Builth ('Llanfair'), Christmas Evans to 'Eglwys yr Engine', near Swansea, c.1796 (greetings, an exposition of fourteen points of the writer's beliefs) (transcript in the hand of Ellis Evans, with additional annotations by Ellis Evans on the life of Christmas Evans and on the growth of the church at Llangefni), J. [R.] Jones, Ramoth to Thomas Parry, Chester, 1799 (the secession of the writer and his church) (two transcripts), J. [R.] Jones, Ramoth to William Jones, bookseller, Liverpool, 1799 (secession from the North Wales churches, the state of the writer's church) (transcript by the writer, with an incomplete transcript in another hand), David Davies, Dyfn Nant [Radnorshire] to David Richard, Wickfawr, near Bridgend, 1799 (the death of [Mary Davies] of Dyfn Nant, personal news) (in the hand of Abraham Jones 'or Bont Newydd'), J. [R.] Jones, Hafotty to John Roberts, Brynn deynydd issa, Llanufudd, 1799 (secession) (transcript by the writer, and another transcript for Ellis Evans), Joseph Richard, Llanywchlyn to his brother David Richard, Wick, near Bri[d]gend, 1799-1800 (2) (a proposed visit to the recipient, the state of the church at Lanywchlyn, an appeal to the recipient to use moderation in his theological beliefs, the secession of J. [R.] Jones and the writer's break with him, the erection of a meeting-house at Dolgelle) (with two transcripts, the one by and the other for Ellis Evans), Christmas Evans to John [R.] Jones, Ramoth, 1801 (a theological disputation, Welsh translation by the writer of a work by McLean), J. R. Jones (observations on 'Llythyrau a Sylwiadau' by John Roberts [senior] of Llanbrynmair), D[avid] Owen '(Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Caerwen [sic] to [J. R. Jones], 1814-15 (2) (Welsh translations by the writer of hymns for the recipient, observations on the recipient's hymns), Peter Jones, Baptist minister, Llwyn-Cus [Llanlleonfel] to David Richards, Pantrhosley, near Bridge-end, 1804-05 (2) (the progress of the writer's church [at Pantycelyn], the writer's recent disputation with the Independents at Llwyn-non on the subject of paedobaptism, an accident to the wife of Tyn-y-bili), [J. R. Jones], Ramoth to [ ], 1806 (the death of H. D. Inglis, the effect of the writer's remarks on Mr Fuller's pamphlet, the publication by the writer of a collection of hymns, the state of the churches 'in our connection'), Tim[oth]y Thomas, Baptist minister, Islington to Edmund Francis, Carnarvon, 1802 (3) (the suspension of payment from the [Particular Baptist] Fund to the church at Rhosllanerchrugog, with reference to dissension in the church and their refusal of intercourse with other churches assisted by the Fund, to a suggested form of register of births and burials, and to the recipient's distribution of Fund money), John Blayney, Baptist minister, Llanberis to the Managers of the Particular Baptist's [sic] Fund (addressed to the Reverend W.

Button, bookseller, 24 Paternoster Row, London), 1805 (a petition for assistance to buy books) (with a recommendation on the dorse signed by th following Baptist ministers, - Titus Lewis, Carmarthen, Evan Evans, Horeb [Garn Dolbenmaen], Sam[ue]l Breeze, Aberystwyth and Tho[ma]s Jones, Glyn Cyiriog), Dafydd Saunders, Baptist minister [of Aberdyar, etc.] from Deptford to David Richards, near Bridgend (re-addressed to John [R.] Jones, Rhamoth), 1807 (the writer's mission among the Welsh Baptists in London), Joseph Harries ('Gomer') Swansea to David Richards, Corntown, 1808 (an urgent request to come to Swansea), Morgan Evans, Baptist minister, Ty'n y Cwm [Pantycelyn, Brecknockshire] to John R Jones, Gareg fawr, near Tan y bwlch Inn, 1808 (the recipient's secession from the Calvinistic Baptists, the writer's health, Baptist news from south-east Wales, the death of Mrs Joshua Thomas of Leominster), David Saunders, Baptist minister [of Aberdyar, etc], Undergrove, near Lampeter, to John R. Jones, Garreg fawr, 1808 (the recipient's conduct in 'leaving the South ... so short and tottally', a 'fatal fever' in Cardiganshire, the death of Gabriel Rees [of Rhydwilym] and David Evan of Cilfowyr, news of minister friends, 'tolerable' success of the Wesleyan Methodists in the Lampeter area, the writer's temporary charge of a Welsh church in London), John [P] Davies, Baptist minister [Holywell] to Evan Evans, Baptist minister, Cefn-mawr, 1810 (observations on a theological disputation [in the church at Cefn-mawr] ), Thomas Evans, Baptist minister, Aberystwyth to David Richard, Pit Cod, near Bridge End, 1810 (the writer's health, the recovery of a sick girl annointed with oil by the writer and the recipient, news of the writer's church), [Joseph Harries ('Gomer'), Baptist minister] Swansea to Evan Evans, Cefn-mawr, 1810 (dissension in the recipient's church, Arminian doctrines attributed to the writer and the recipient) (mutilated, signature cut away), Joseph Richard, Baptist minister, Dolgelle, 1811 (personal, urging the recipient to return [from the Academy at Abergavenny] to Merioneth), Ellis Robert(s), Dolgellau, 1811 (the dispatch of a box for the recipient [at Abergavenny], personal, the state of the cause at Dolgellau, news of Joseph [Richard]), David Cadwaledar Richard, Caerphilly to John [R] Jones, Ramoth, 1812 (the writer's theological problems, news of progress of the Baptists at Cowbridge, Bridgend, Caerphilly, etc. and of individual Baptist ministers and mutual acquaintances, the coming of Mr Fuller to Wales and the writer's fear of the consequences, a proposed visit to Pembrokeshire, greetings from friends), Jes[se] Jones, Llans[an]tffraid [Glan Conwy] and Steuben, ?1812-44 (2) (news of friends, the progress of the writer's church [Salem, Ffordd-las], the state of the [Baptist] cause at Roe [Wen], Baptist progress in Anglesey with a reference to the preaching and counter-preaching of John Ellias and Christmas Evans on baptism, a proposed visit to Pembrokeshire, the recipient's studies; a split among the Baptist churches in the neighbourhood of Steuben [New York] and a declaration of the articles of faith of Steuben church), [Micah Thomas, Baptist minister, Abergavenny, and president of the Baptist Academy, Abergavenny], [1817] (a recommendation by the writer for brother John Davies, no recollection of the books mentioned by the recipient, the erection of a 'comfortable' meeting-house by the writer's congregation and the progress of the cause, personal) (mutilated, signature cut away), Rich[ar]d Foulkes ('Silas Glan Dyfrdwy'), Baptist minister, ?1819 (the defection of Thomas [Rhys] Davies at Llansantffraid [Glan Conwy] and a request by the writer for the recipient to accompany him there), Tho[ma]s R[ees] Davies, Baptist minister, Glanwdden, 1844 and undated (2) (subscribing an appeal to the writer from Evan Prichard and Owen Owens on behalf of the Baptist church at Pwllhely, 1819, for preaching engagements, the writer's presence at the Association is unlikely), Evan Evans, Baptist minister, Carludd [London], 1819-26 (4) (hopes for the success of the recipient's church, inquiries about church members and about the churches at Harwt, Cefnbychan, Llangollen, etc., a request for the date of the writer's ordination and for the sermon texts from the Cefn-mawr church register, the progress of the writer's church, collections in London towards Baptist churches, the birth of a daughter to the writer, recommends writing to J[ohn] Jones of Ramoth for information about North Wales ministers, the writer's inability to procure books for the recipient, inquiring about the present position between Glyn [Ceiriog] church and Ed[war]d Morris, excommunications in Cefn-mawr church, the pamphlet of Tho[ma]s Jones of Denbigh in praise of C[hristmas] Evans, the marriage of the writer's daughter and her willingness to accept christening at the request of the curate of Ruabon, the importance of publishing correspondence in a similar case between [William] Williams, Cardigan and the bishop of St Davids, the success of the writer's collections towards defraying the Cefn-mawr church debt, news of the writer's church, the reconciliation of Anglesey Baptists, the recipient's request for a copy of the Baptist Register) (one letter, 1826, forming part of a letter addressed to Mr John Owens, Cefn Mawr), E[van] Evans, Caerludd to the Baptist church at Cefn Mawr (addressed to John Owens, Cefn Mawr), 1820 (instructions regarding individual petitions for assistance from 'War ffynd y Gweddwon gweinidogion', justification for the writer's action in not recommending Tho[ma]s R. Davies to the ministry at Cefn Mawr, reports of the Pwllheli Association and of the progress of the Baptist cause there), William Davies, Deerfield, near Utica, Onida County, New York State, 1821-2 (2) (news of the family of the wife's uncle Owen Owens from Llansaint Fraid [Glan Conwy], autobiographical information by the writer, an account of Welsh Baptist and other churches and ministers in Steuben and in Utica, contemporary economic conditions in America, greetings to relatives and friends in Wales) (one letter annotated by "Spinther": 'Dyma'r William Davis [sic] y darniodd ei fam ei ddillad â'r fwyell ar y plocyn rhag iddo fyned i gael ei fedyddio'), J[oseph] Harris ('Gomer'), Swansea, 1821-4 (2) (offence caused by the writer to Jno. Roberts by his request for the payment of money, the distribution of Seren [Gomer], a request to John Evans of Minerva [sic] near Wrexham for the payment of £7.6.9 with a receipt to Elis Evans for £4.13.0 signed by Rich[ar]d Owens), Ioan Richards, Llanuwchllyn to his uncle [? David Richards], 1821 (the writer's departure from his employment at Towyn, an account of the church and chapel of the writer's uncle [J. R. Jones] at Harlech, W[illia]m Davies at present ministering [to the Baptist church] at Dolgelley, dissension in the [Baptist] church at Llanuwchllyn, references to uncles Cadwalader and Benjamin, greetings from family members, the resumption of preaching by old R[obert] Roberts ['Y Sandeman'], several sudden deaths in the Bala area), Owen Owens, Trenton, Onida County, New York State, 1821 (detailed news of the writer and his family and of Welsh Baptist churches and members in his area) (with a brief addition by Lucy Maurice, with whom Owen Owens lived at the time) (addressed to the writer's nephew and niece and directed to Ellis Evans), Tim[oth]y Thomas, Baptist minister [of Islington], 1823 (a form of receipt for assistance for the widow of the Reverend William Roberts of Cefn Mawr), B[enjamin] Jones ['P. A. Môn'], Holyhead to [John Jones, Baptist minister, Pwllheli], 1824 (transcript by 'Spinther', 1902, of the original letter in 'Llythyrau Llenorion', vol. IV, of 'Myrddin Fardd', i.e.

Cwrtmawr MS 412), John Pritchard, Baptist minister and Principal of the Baptist College, Llangollen, [18]24 (a report that an infant child of one of the recipient's members is to be baptised at Llangollen by John Elias, condolence [on the death of the recipient's son]), Rob[er]t Williams, Baptist minister, Glyn [Ceiriog] and Ruthin, 1824-40 (3) (a preaching engagement at Pen y Cae, enclosing a confession of faith of Llanfwrog Baptist Church transcribed from the church register, exchange of pulpits, the progress of the cause at Ruthyn), Rich[ar]d Hughes [Baptist minister subsequently at Llanfair Caereinion, Llanuwchllyn, Pantycelyn, Llwyngwril and Ferwig] from Abergavenny [Academy], 1825 and undated [?1826] (3) (greetings to Cefn Mawr church and to the recipient, deploring the Fullerian-Calvinistic rift in South Wales, kindness shown to the writer by Mr and Mrs [Micah] Thomas, enclosing an extract on Wrexham Baptist church, news of Baptist causes and ministers in South Wales with reference to [Thomas] Morris of Newport [Monmouthshire] ('Twm Deg Capel') who continually bedevilled relationships between ministers, a book received from James Michael for the recipient, the refusal of churches to make collections for the School, admissions to and departures from the School, preaching engagements by the writer and others, the unusual success of the two factions at Blanafon, the lack of unity among ministers), John Davies, Baptist minister, Holywell, 1825 (invitations to the recipient and to Abel Vaughan to preach at Holywell with a view to healing the rift between the church and the Reverend J[ohn] B]reeze] Roberts), Hugh [H.] Williams, Baptist minister, Cheltenham to John Thomas, Baptist minister, Llanrwst, 1826 (a full account of the beginning of the Baptist cause at Llanrwst, personal news, greetings to old friends, suggestions for the schooling of the recipient's son Timothy [subsequently Baptist minister at Maesaleg]), Ellis Evans [Cefn-mawr] from Llanerchmedd and from Caerphili to his wife [Mary Evans], 1826-9 (2) (the reconciliation of factions among Anglesey Baptists [following the departure of Christmas Evans], the sales of the writer's publications in South Wales, the writer's inability to glean information on the subject of Sunday Schools, no Sunday School seen during his tour to compare with Cefn Mawr either in numbers or in organisation, reports on individual Baptist causes and ministers in South Wales), C[hristmas] Evans to the Baptist Monthly Meeting at Llanfair [Mathafarn Eithaf] [?1824] (dissension among Anglesey Baptists and the writer's recommendations) (transcript in the hand of Ellis Evans, 1835), Ann Williams, London, 1836 (personal, collections by the Reverend D[avid] Rees towards the debt upon [Moorfields] church), Evan Evans, Baptist minister, London to John Owens, Cefn Mawr (and partly to Ellis Evans), 1826 (employment for the writer's son, references to Cefn-mawr members, the delay in submitting the Rhos petition), John Jenkins, Baptist minister, Maesycwmwr, 1827-36 (3) (the circulation of Cyfrinach [y Bedyddwyr], the recipient's proposed History of the Baptists, a request for the recipient's recommendation for the writer's publication of a Welsh translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Dr [Johann Lorenz von] Mosheim, support from the Glamorgan Quarterly Meeting for the recipient's proposed History of the Baptists and an offer by the writer and his son to print the work), Jo[hn Blayney], Baptist minister, from Wrexham, to [ ], 1827 (the writer's preaching engagements, pressure on the writer to print 2000 copies in Welsh of the 'Jachin a Bo[az]' [Jacin a Boaz published in Llanrwst in 1828] ), W[illia]m Jones, Llangefni ('Person Nefin ar ol hyn'), 1828 (the recipient's preaching engagements at Llangefni), Joshua M. Thomas, Cardigan, 1828-32 (2) (requesting a list of North Wales Associations from 1797 onwards for publication in Greal [y Bedyddwyr], suggesting a postponement until next year of the recipient's collecting tour, a 'call' to Cardigan extended to W[illiam] Jones of Holywell and the consequent seccession of the writer and other church members), John Edwards, Baptist minister, Holywell and Bryn Mawr, 1828-39 (2) (enclosing £5 for Mary Griffiths, condolence on the death of recipient's wife, the progress of religion in Cefn Mawr and in Denbighshire and from Rhymni to Blaenafon), Edmund Francis, Carnarvon 'at David Lloyd Llanystumdwy', 1829 (annotated transcript by 'Spinther', 1902, of the original letter in Cwrtmawr MS 412, [ ] ('distadl gyfaill ac ewyllysiwr da'), Cefnmawr, 1830 (comments on a printed sermon by the recipient on baptism), Tho[ma]s Edwards, Bute Shop, near Abergavenny, 1830 (a request to purchase copies of the recipient's sermon on baptism for distribution among the writer's friends in Bala and Llanuwchllyn), John Roberts ('Fawr'), Baptist minister, 'Gynt o Llanrwst' and from Tredegar, 1830-9 (2) (accusations against the writer by the members of his church at Llanrwst, a proposed visit to the recipient's Association), John Roberts ('Fawr') to Baptist ministers assembled at Llanrwst, 1830 (the writer's defence against the accusations of Llanrwst church), Ellis Evans, Cefn Mawr to his brother William Evans, farmer, Ramson parish, near Stuben, State of New York, 1831 (personal, a desire by brother Edward to emigrate to America and an appeal on his behalf, the present industrial depression and an account of riots by the colliers at Rhosllanerchrygog and Ruabon, disturbances in European countries, an account of the writer's family), John Jenkins, junior [printer, of Cardiff] from Cardigan, to J[ohn] Pritchard, Llangollen, 1831 (an appeal for copies of Northern Association letters), Rob[er]t Williams, Ruthin to John Pritchard, Llangollen, 1831 (the Quarterly meeting at Denbigh) (re-addressed to Ellis Evans, with a list of personal names numbered 54-99 endorsed in the latter's hand), Benjamin Jones ['P. A. Môn'], Machynlleth, 1831 (essays by the writer and the recipient in reply to [John] Munro on baptisms, debts incurred on the writer's first book), Daniel Jones, Baptist minister, Liverpool, Cowbridge and Tongwynlas, 1833-57 (3) (the writer's victory over his enemies in the church [at Great Crosshall Street], the progress of the writer's pastorate at Cowbridge, the reasons for the writer's departure from Liverpool, the Isaac [Griffiths] incident in Caernarvon, the writer's collection in North Wales towards 'Trysorfa Jubilee Pontypool' [Pontypool Baptist College Jubilee Fund], personal, greetings), William Evans, Baptist minister [Aberystwyth], from Manchester, 1833 (an investigation by the writer of charges by members of Princess Street Church at Manchester against the minister George Williams), Geo[rge] Williams, Baptist Minister, Salford, Manchester [1833] (dispute with the writer's church, an offer of a suit of clothes), William Cheshire, Liverpool, 1834 (personal, the writer's health, the search for a book for the recipient, reference to T[homas] R[ees] Davies's book) (endorsed with expository notes, etc. by Ellis Evans), Thomas Bevan, carrier, Llanwenarth, 1834 (dissension at Abergavenny Academy and an appeal for support for a new institution), Joseph Davies, Baptist minister, Denbigh, 1835 (an invitation to preach at the writer's induction service at Denbigh), [Edward Williams, aft. Baptist minister, Aberystwyth, from Abergavenny Academy] to the Reverend Edward [Evans], C[ynwyd, aft. Dowlais] [1835] (the present state of the Academy, an appeal on behalf of the writer's uncle [John Edwards] rejected by the church at Nant y Glo) (mutilated), W[illia]m Jones, Cardiff, on behalf of the Committee of the Auxiliary Baptist Continental Missionary Society, 1835 (requesting the attention of the forthcoming Association to the Mission to Britany [sic] (autograph, addressed to Elis [sic] Evans but also directed to John Pritchard, John Evans, Robert Williams, William Morgan, Hugh Williams and Daniel Jones), W[illiam] Jones, Baptist minister, Cardiff, from Llandrindod and Cardiff, 1836-8 (2) (an inquiry concerning the church membership of John Jones, minister of Landogo and elsewhere, requesting information on the circulation of Ystorfa [y Bedyddwyr] in the recipient's neighbourhood), Robert Morgan, Baptist minister, Llanfair [-iuxta-Harlech] to [William Jones, Baptist minister, London, author of History of the Waldenses, 1811), 1836 (covering 'a list of churches in our quarter') ('both ....

copied by David Roberts of 11 Chapel Street, Liverpool and sent to Ellis Evans at his request') (together with a 'List of the Sandemanian Churches, their Elders & Number of members in June, 1809', and observations in the hand of 'Spinther'), David Roberts, Liverpool, 1839 (covering the writer's transcripts of the Robert Morgan letter of 1836 and the enclosure, also urging a reply to a publication from Llanrwst ?on baptism), Owen Michael, Baptist minister, Glyn [Ceiriog] and Blaenavon, [18]36-42 (2) (incidents in the early history of the Baptist church at Glyn, a synopsis of the 'system', otherwise the theological views and methods of sermon preparation of the Reverend John Evans of Llanwydden) (the latter incomplete, with emendations by 'Spinther' for publication), John Roberts, Baptist minister, Llansilin, [18]37-46 (3) (preaching services at Llansilin and Llanfyllin) (with two 'englynion' by David Pugh, and an addition to one letter by Richard Pugh, Llanfyllin), Jona Roberts, Cefnmawr to the Reverend J[ohn] Williams, Llansilin, c. 1836 (consoling the writer on his 'fall') ('i gysuro John Williams yn ei gwymp') (partly in verse form), Jon[a]th[an] Jones, Cefn Mawr to the Reverend John Williams, Llansilin, 1836 (terms offered by the Rhos and Brymbo churches and a general expectation of the recipient's acceptance), Thomas Jones, Baptist minister, Chepstow, 1836 (a request on behalf of the recipient to the Committee of Bristol Education Society for the loan of the manuscript histories of Joshua Thomas], W[illiam] Davies, Baptist minister, Eglwyserw [sic], Merthyr Tydvil and Dowlais, 1836-45 (3) (a request for the recipient's views on the qualifications of John Williams of Llansilin as tutor in the proposed Baptist Academy at Haverfordwest, a request for information on the recipient's proposed History of the Baptists, urging the circulation of Y Cenhadydd in North Wales, industrial depression in the writer's area and increasing emigration to America, John Jones of Llangollen [a Paedobaptist] has done more to promote the Baptist cause in the writer's area than anything else in this age, preaching engagements by the recipient in Ynysfelin, personal, the recipient's bereavements, the purchase of books), H[ugh] W[illiam] Hughes ('Arwystl'), Baptist minister, Mold, 1837-c. 1859 (2) (requesting support for the writer's application for admission to Pontypool Academy, covering an exhaustive account of the writer's ministerial career at Mold and Penyfron and at Stanhope Street, Liverpool) (the latter with emendations by 'Spinther' for publication), Edward Humphreys, Baptist minister [Llanuwchllyn] ['cousin' of Ellis Evans], 1837-49 (2) (the recipient's proposed History of the Baptists and other publications, the success of the Total Abstinence movement in Llanuwchllyn, news of and greetings to relatives, encloses material on Hugh Owen of Bronclydwr, proposes to collect a parish history of Llanuwchllyn), W[illia]m Roberts ('Nefydd'), Baptist minister, Liverpool, [18]38 (the purchase of a book, the writer's proposed visit to Ruthin, requesting advice on the matter of [? an invitation to the writer to] the Academy), Morgan Evans, Baptist minister, Caerffili, 1838 (a request for information in writing on the foundation of Christianity in Britain towards an essay at the next 'Cylchwyl .... Caerdydd'), David Jones, Carmarthen and from the Borough Gaol, Carmarthen, 1838-40 (2) (the writer will be completing his Hanes y Bedyddwyr towards the end of the year (1838) and recommends that the recipient should begin to publish his own History immediately in order to secure the support of the writer's subscibers, suggests that the work be printed like his own at Carmarthen, has heard a rumour that the recipient does not propose to continue with the work and offers to buy the copy; an appeal for the payment in the Cefn Mawr district of subscriptions to the writer's Hanes, advice to the recipient in connection with the proposed printing of the latter's History), D[avid Rhys] Jones, Baptist minister [London] [1838] (a preaching invitation) (endorsed is a letter from Eliz[abe]th Evans, London, [18]38, urging the recipient to accept the invitation), Jno. Thomas, Carmarthen, [18]39 (an application for the printing of the recipient's proposed History of the Baptist Churches in N[orth] Wales) (endorsed by [the Reverend] J[oshua] Watkins, Carmarthen), John Edwards, Baptist minister, Bryn Mawr, 1839 (condolence on the death of the recipient's wife, the progress of religion in Cefn Mawr and in Denbighshire and from Rhymni to Blaenafon), H[enr]y Parry, [Ruthin] to [ ] Obury' [the Reverend Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan Methodist minister], undated (a proposed disputation at Ruthin on the subject of baptism) (draft), Jno. James, Baptist minister, Bridgend, 1839-[40] (2) (unfavourable comments on Hanes [y Bedyddwyr] published at Carmarthen, exhaustive accounts of the first Baptist mission to North Wales and of the writer's annual preaching tours especially in Merioneth and Montgomeryshire), Mary Sion [Jones] Llanuwchllyn, 1839, to her brother Ellis Evans and to be submitted by him to the Association at Denbigh, 1839 (an appeal for regular preaching at Llanuwchllyn) (in the hand of, and with a covering letter by, her son-in-law Edward Humphreys), J[ohn] Jones, Baptist minister, Merthyr [Tudful] to J[onathan] Jones, grocer, Cefn Mawr, [18]39 (the writer's proposed visit to the recipient's Association, the writer's 'hiraeth' for Blaenafon) (re-addressed, with a covering letter by the recipient, to Ellis Evans), W[illiam] Evans, Baptist minister, Aberystwyth to the Reverend Samuel Williams, Dolgelley, 1840 (the selection of a home missionary [for Cardiganshire and Merioneth] ), with observations subscribed by the recipient and re-addressed to the Reverend John Richard, Llangollen), F[rancis] Hiley, Baptist minister, Lanwenarth, 1840 (declining an invitation to the annual Association), Hugh H Williams, Baptist minister, Gloucester, 1840 (an offer of information to the recipient on the history of North Wales Baptist, 'there are now but few living who know the history ... better than myself,' the progress of Pont-y-pool Academy and the donation to it by the writer of 1550 books), Owen Williams, Baptist minister, Holywell, 1840-2 (3) (invitations to the recipient to preaching services, the progress of the Baptist causes at Holywell, Rhuddlan and St Asaph, the publication of Thomas Aubrey's book, observations on the excessive welcome by the Baptists to converts from other denominations, dissension following the building of a Baptist chapel at Milwr), Edward Roberts ('Iorwerth Glan Aled'), Denbigh, 1841 (an invitation to Denbigh to deliver a lecture on baptism and to conduct a baptismal service), Sarah Wright, Cefn Farm, 1841 (a protest against the mode of election of two deacons [at Cefn-mawr Baptist church] ), Edward Williams, Baptist minister, Manchester and Aberystwyth, 1841-50 (3) (the writer's removal to Aberystwyth due to the enmity of the 'Gadsbyites' but opposed to a proposal to excommunicate them from the Baptist church in Manchester, requesting advice in the matter of writing an Association letter, requesting material for a proposed biography of the Reverend Thomas Jones of Rhydwilym by the Reverend Henry Price of Carmel, [Pembrokeshire]), David Jones, Baptist minister, Middle Mill, Solva, [18]41 (a request by H. H.

Williams of Gloucester for a reply to a letter to the recipient, the progress of the Baptists in Pembrokeshire, recent disputations in the County on paedobaptism and the need for a retort to the book of John Jones of Llangollen, an offer to collect subscribers to the recipient's proposed History of the Baptists), D[avid] Jones, Baptist minister, Cardiff, [18]41 (a request to include statistics of North Wales churches in the writer's 'Hanes flyneddol''), W[illiam] Roberts ('Nefydd'), L[iver]pool to the Reverend H[ugh] Jo[nes, Baptist minister, Cefnbychan], [18]41-2 (2) (copious observations on the activities of the 'faction' in Great Crosshall Street church, enclosing statistics of Stanhope Street church for the Association), Samuel Williams, Baptist minister, Dolgellau (to Baptist members ('Annwyl Frodyr a Chwaeriorydd') at Llanuwchllyn 1841 (a letter of dismission to incorporate as an independent church), Samuel Morgan, Newtown, [18]41 (replies to a questionnaire on the history of the Baptists in Newtown and the neighbourhood, the writer has mislaid a holograph letter of Joshua Thomas and a catechism of his own on the subject), John Roberts, Baptist minister [Liverpool], [18]41 (a proposed address in Liverpool by [John] Jones [Independent minister] of Llangollen on [paedo]baptists), Tho[ma]s Evans, Baptist minister, Argoed, 1841 ('Dadl fawr Rhymni' - the great disputation at Rhymni on baptism between John Jones of Llangollen and Tho[ma]s Jones of Beula in Pembrokeshire) (endorsed, in the hand of Ellis Evans, with a list of contents of Y Darllenydd Beirniadol .... ), Hugh Williams, Baptist minister, Bettws [Amlwch] 1841-59 (4) (dissension in the Baptist church at Llanerchymedd, the writer's dissension with Christmas Evans in connection with the writer's pastorate at Amlwch, the burial of Ben. Jones ('P. A. Môn'), a request on behalf of Ebenezer church at Llangefni for assistance to arrange the Association, a history of the writer's pastorate at Amlwch), William Pritchard, Baptist minister, [Llandudno] [1841] (the writer's health, the progress of the writer's church, the imminent death of John Thomas [a young preacher in Llandudno], encloses a letter from New York), R. Jones, Llandudno, 1841, (baptisms at Llandudno, the death of John Thomas, greetings), John Jones, Isaac Minshull, W[illia]m Williams ('Creuddynfab'), Joseph Hughes, John Edwards, W[illia]m Mathias and John Pierce, on behalf of Manchester Baptist church, 1841 (urging the recipient to persuade [Edward] Williams not to leave the pastorate) (in the hand of 'Creuddynfab'), John Evans, Baptist minister, Llanwydden to [the Baptist Association at Cefn-mawr] (addressed to the Reverend John Edwards, Holywell), 1828 (announcing the writer's reconciliation with the Reverend Thomas [Rhys] Davies of Bettws [Abergele] and approving the restoration of the latter to his full Baptist rights) (with annotations by 'Spinther'), R. Jones [? 'Robin Goch'] [secretary of the Baptist church at St Thomas's Buildings], Liverpool, 1841 (the recipient's inability to visit the church may be regarded as disapproval of their action, the state of the new church and the writer's undertaking to write for the recipient a history of the Liverpool Baptists, the departure of [the Reverend] D[aniel] Jones) (with annotations by 'Spinther') (bound after the letter is a history entitled 'Ychydig o Hanes Eglwys y Bedyddwyr Llynlleifiad wedi ei gopio o lyfr y Eglwys'), Joel Jones, President ('Cymedrolwr') of the Caernarvonshire Baptist Monthly Meeting, from Garn [Dolbenmaen] to the Reverend Hugh Jones, Cefnbychan, 1842 (the action of the Monthly Meeting in renouncing the Reverend Isaac Griffith[s] and his faction [at Caernarvon] ), I[saac] W. Griffiths, Baptist minister, from Northampton, Leeds, Carnarvon, etc. to Hugh Jones and to Ellis Evans, 1842-4 (5) (dissension arising from the Caernarvon Baptist chapel debt, with references to collections by the writer, the writer's agreement with the Reverend Daniel Jones, a discussion at the Association on the faction at Caernarvon, and the recovery of legal costs arranged to be paid to the writer by Caernarvonshire ministers), Thomas Evans, on behalf of Caernarvonshire Baptist church, 1842 (regretting the possibility of a fresh investigation into the matter of the chapel debt), Abel Jones, Ebenezer, Merthyr, [18]42 (an appeal for support for Y Cenhadydd [Cymreig]), H. Evans ('Myllin'), London, [18]42 (the recipient's visit to London), Edward Evans (described as 'Esgob Penygarn'), progress of the writer's church, deploring [a sermon by Robert Ellis] 'Cynddelw' [at Cefn-mawr] and commenting on the possible movements of other ministers of the same 'stamp', the ordination of Edward Roberts at Denbigh and the need for a precise acceptance of the Confession of Faith, enclosing donations from Mr Phillips of ?Pont y ?Moil, proceedings against the writer in connection with money paid to John Davies the missionary, a split in Trosnant church, a meeting of the writer's church members called to oppose the Maynooth grant, news of Ellis Evans the Younger's studies and health, Baptist news, what is happening to the recipient's History of the Baptists, recommends the 'Cymdeithas Gweinidogion Hen a Methedig' [the Old and Infirm Baptist Ministers' Society], a proposed chapel at Mold, the alarming decline of the Welsh language in the writer's district, a lecture by the 'Normal College deputation' on the 'Voluntary Principal', the departure of Baptist Noel from the established church), J[ohn] Jones, Baptist minister, Bancyffynnon, near Llandyssil to Mrs Anne Hughes, Bola'r fron, Verwig, 1843 (Ellis Evans's proposal to write a biography of the recipient's husband [Richard Hughes, Baptist minister] and the writer's reminiscences and assessment of the pastoral work of the subject), Thomas E[van] James ('T. Ab Ieuan'), Cardigan, 1843 (the death of the Reverend Richard Hughes of Ferwig and a request to the recipient to write a biography), Edw[ar]d Roberts, Baptist minister, Rock Cottage, near Mold [18]43 (arranging a collecting tour for the recipient at Pen y Fron and Licswm, copious observations on Campbellian views attributed to the writer), Benjamin Evans, Baptist minister, Hirwaen Iron Works, [18]43 (requesting information about Isaac Evans, a lay preacher from Cefn Mawr, who had settled in Hirwaen), William Roberts, Baptist minister, Fforddlas, Llans[an]tffraid Conwy, 1843 (a preaching engagement for the recipient), David Rees, Baptist minister, Cardigan [18]43 (a tribute to the Reverend Rich[ar]d Hughes [of Ferwig] ), John Evans, Baptist minister, Bangor to John Pritchard, Llangollen, [18]45 (declining responsibility for payment to Isaac Griffith[s] ), John Ricketts, Newport, Monmouthshire,

1844 (the death of the recipient's wife, the writer's health, a request for books, including a Welsh-English and English-Welsh dictionary for the writer's Welsh-speaking son), Dan Davies, Baptist minister, Ruthin, 1844 (urging the publication of a biography of the writer's co-pastor R[obert] Williams), S[tephen] Price, Baptist minister [of Abersychan], secretary of [Pontypool] Academy, from Pontnewydd 1844 (agreement for the admission of the recipient's son into the Academy), Ellis Evans [the Younger], Pontypool, 1844 (2) (the writer's arrival at Pontypool, accounts of the Academy annual meeting and preaching services, an exchange of a book for a dictionary, the writer's studies, news of [the Reverend] Edward Evans and [the Reverend] Owen Michael, personal), Ellis Evans [the elder], Cefn Mawr to his son Ellis Evans, 'Student', Baptist College, Pont y Pool, 1844 (the recipient's studies and the writer's advice, personal and family news) (with endorsements by the recipient, including a prayer and an incomplete draft of a petition to [Pontypool Academy]), J[ohn] Robinson, Baptist minister, Rhydwyn [Anglesey], 1844 (the writer's inability to attend the quarterly meeting at Cefn Mawr, the writer's letter from the recipient's son, personal, the state of religion in Anglesey, 'Morgans Caergybi' [William Morgan, Baptist minister, Holyhead] in distress over the Caernarvon chapel debt), Tho[ma]s R[hys] Davies [of Glanwydden] from Manchester, 1844 (the writer's presence at the Association is unlikely), Hugh Jones ('Hugh Machraeth'), Baptist minister, Llanfachreth, Anglesey, 1845-7 (4) (the writer's removal from Llanfachreth, the state of the writer's church, an evil faction in the recipient's church, the writer's views on Baptist congregations in Anglesey, greetings to friends, the publication of Y Tyst Apostolaidd, the writer's refusal to observe a day of prayer ordered by the Queen [on the subject of Irish famine], news of Anglesey ministers and churches, the possibility of the writer's return to Denbighshire) (three of the letters carry emendations by 'Spinther' for publication), William James, Tredegar, 1845 (dissension between [the Reverend] David Roberts and the church at Sirhowi) (with an addition by R[obert] Ellis ('Cynddelw') referring to the writer's collecting tour, the recipient's preaching engagements at Glyn [Ceiriog], the writer's purchase of a book, and the dissension at Sirhowi), Owen Michael, Baptist minister, Blaenafon to 'Hugo' [Hugh Jones, Baptist minister, Cefnbychan] [18]45 (the dissension at Syrywi, the possibility of a 'call' to D. Roberts to the pastorate of Cefn[bychan] and Pen y cae), Isaac Williams, Fron Frian [Cefnbychan] to [ ], 1845 (news of Thomas Roberts, the strike of colliers, a religious awakening in the district, the affair of D. Roberts of Sirhowy and disagreement over the possibility of a call to Cefn Bychan and Penycae, a lecture at Cefn bychan chapel by Captain Dan Jones on the 'Latter Day Saints'), Edward Hughes, Baptist minister, Lixwm, [18]45 (the excommunication of E[dward] Roberts from the pastorate of Pen y fron), D[avid] Price, Baptist minister, Great Cross Hall St[reet], L[iver]pool to H[ugh] Williams, Baptist minister, Amlwch, [18]45 (enclosing statistics of the church and requesting membership of the Anglesey Association), Sam[ue]l Williams, Baptist minister, Nant y Glo [previously of Dolgellau], 1845 (the affair of D. Roberts and the church at Sirhowy), E. D. Jones, on behalf of Penybryn [English Baptist] church, Llangollen, 1846 (an invitation to preach at the Christmas service on the subject of the Sunday School), J[ohn] Hiley, Baptist minister [of Llanwenarth], Pilgrims' Rest, Pontypool, 1846 (offering the support of the writer's Quarterly Meeting in compiling the recipient's History of the Baptists), Robert Roberts, Baptist minister, Plas yn bonwm [Llansantffraid Glyndyfrdwy], [18]46 (the excommunication of John Jones from the pastorate of Llansantffraid [Glyndyfrdwy] ), Tho[ma]s Thomas, [President] Baptist College, Pontypool, [18]47 (the application of E[dward] Williams, [of Cefn-mawr] for admission, prophesying the imminent collapse of the Roman Catholic church, adverse comments on the writer's former pastor R[obert] Pritchard [of Cardiff, etc.] ), David Morris, lithographer, Newport, Monmouthshire to Mr W[illia]m Davies, carpenter [? of Newport, Monmouthshire], 1847 (the publication of a biography of the writer's father the Reverend Thomas Morris ('Twm Deg Capel') (lithographed circular), Jno. Thomas, Machynlleth, 1847 (enclosing material and replying to a questionnaire on the history of the Baptist church at Machynlleth), W. Jones, Llanfair Gate, Anglesey ['tad Iolo Mon' according to an annotation by 'Spinther'], 1847 (requesting a contribution from the recipient to a proposed publication by the writer of a volume of sermons by Welsh Baptist ministers, inquiring about the recipient's History of the Baptists, requesting the return of a book), Nath[anie]l Thomas, Penallt llyn, near Cilfowyr to J[onathon] Jones [Cefn-mawr], [18]47 (thanks to Ellis Evans for a letter, the writer's proposed visit to the recipient, news of the church at Blaenyffos, news of J. M. Thomas of Cardigan and others, observations on the writings of 'Brutus' in Yr Haul, greetings to friends), Tho[ma]s Richards [aft. Baptist minister, Bryntroedgam] from Llanddylas to J[onathan] Jones, 'Blaenor yn Eglwys Cefen Mawr', 1847 (an appeal for a collection to [Pontypool] College), John R[hys] Morgan ('Lleurwg'), Baptist minister, Bangor, [18]47 (a preaching invitation to Bangor), William Jones, Brynhyfryd, Pwllheli, 1848 (an invitation to a preaching tour as far as Pwllheli, the health of Mr Morris Williams, the 'diabolic conduct' of [the Reverend] Owen Owen of 'Rosllanerchgaregog'), J[ohn] Williams [translator of Yr Oraclau Bywiol], Baptist minister, of Newtown, 1848 (an exposition of the heresies of the Pelagians ('Pauliciaid'), Manicheans and Bogomiles, the progress of the writer's church, the writer's health), Henry Davies [Baptist minister of Llangloffan], Panteirig, 1849 (the admission of Edward Williams of Cefn Mawr to Haverfordwest Baptist College, Baptist news from Pembrokeshire, the writer's experiences in the ministry, greetings to Baptist ministers in North Wales), Tho[ma]s Lewis, Baptist minister, Llanddewi, near Abergavenny, 1849 (subscribers to the recipient's proposed History of the Baptists, the decline of the Welsh language in the writer's church), Rob[er]t Pritchard, Baptist minister, Denbigh to Jon[atha]n Jones, stone merchant, Cefn Mawr, 1850 (the writer's religious experiences, a request for the assistance of E[llis] Evans in arranging a preaching tour of Lleyn and for financial help from Cefn Mawr towards Carmel chapel at Aberdaron), John Jones, Baptist minister, Llandyssil, near Carmarthen, 1850 (a request for news of relatives of the Reverend Richard Hughes [of Ferwig], bereavements in the writer's and the recipient's families, the low state of religion in Llandyssil), Jonathan Jones, Cefn Mawr, 1850, and London, 1851 (2) (urging the recipient to extend the proposed History of the Baptists to include South Wales, the emigration of the recipient's brother to America, news from Cefn[-mawr] church, collecting Nonconformists statistics in the parish for John Williams the member for Macclesfield, a report on the writer's attendance at the Peace Congress and his visits to Bunhillsfield Cemetery, Moorfield Baptist Church, etc.), Edw[ard] B[ean] Underhill, London, 1851 (replies to inquiries concerning the Zwiccau prophets and the Munster affair), Owen Owen, Baptist minister, Brymbo, 1851 (exchange of pulpits with the recipient, a collection for the cause at Mold, the writer's recovery of health), W[illia]m Thomas, Baptist minister, Newport, Monmouthshire, 1851 (requesting information on the character of the recipient's co-pastor John Morris who had received a 'call' to Llanhyddel), J[ohn] G.

Owen, Baptist minister, Pandy'r Capel, 1851 (arranging collections for the missionary movement in specified churches in Denbighshire), John Hughes, Factory, Llangollen, 1852 (a preaching invitation to Penybryn and Glyndyfrdwy churches), Ellis Evans [Cefn-mawr] to his brother John Evans, Ceunant Isaf, Lanuwchlyn [1834] (condolence, illness in the writer's family), Richard Hughes, Baptist minister, Maesteg, 1857 (the publication of a sermon by the writer), R[obert] Foulkes, Denbigh, [18]57 (the debt on the chapel at Llanfair [Dyffryn Clwyd] ), Thomas Rees Davies, Baptist minister, Glanwddan to Jon[atha]n Jones [Cefn Mawr], 1857 (personal, preaching engagements), Edw[ar]d Roberts, Baptist minister, Pontypridd, 1861 (the appearance and the circulation of the first part of the recipient's Hanes y Bedyddwyr), H[enry] Morgan, Baptist minister, Dolgellau, [18]61 (information on the writer's pastorate at Dolgellau towards the recipient's History), Ll[ewelyn] Jenkins], 'Trysorfa y Goffadwraeth' [1662 Memorial Fund], Maesycwmwr, 1862 (requesting the recipient's views on present trends within the Baptist denomination in Wales and on the Memorial Fund, enclosing a transcript by the writer from the Llanwenarth church register), and Rob[er]t Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu')] to John Thomas ('Siôn Wyn o Eifion'), 'Bard', Chwilog, undated (requesting the return of an essay ('traethawd') by the writer) (with an annotation in the hand of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd')). Miscellaneous documents bound into the volume include a letter of dismission from the [Baptist] church at Aberystwith and Penrhyncoch, 9 September 1800, authorising specified members to be incorporated as a separate church at Machynlleth, together with a report of the incorporation on 14 September and a copy of the Confession of Faith; a facsimile of 'Testimonials to the Character and the Case of the Bearer Mr Evan Evans ...' by, and in the hand of [the Reverend] Tim[oth]y Thomas, Islington, 2 October 1823 (in praise of the efforts of Evan Evans to establish a Welsh Baptist church in London); a postcard from E[van] W[ycliffe] Davies, B[aptist] minister, Ton Pentre to J. H. Davies, Cwrt-Mawr, 1915 (requesting the sight of letters written from prison by David Jones, author of Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru); an abstract by 'Spinther', from a copy lent to John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), 19 March 1902, of the will, 3 June 1837, and codicil, 21 November 1837, of David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Gaerwen [parish of Llanystumdwy]; a petition, 1841, signed by thirty-three members of Cefn Mawr [Baptist Church] to Ellis Evans for permission for John Roberts ['Fawr'] to preach at the afternoon service; a letter of dismission, 1842, for Tho[ma]s Roberts from Tabor [Baptist Church], Nant y Glo to Cefn Mawr in the hand of, and signed by, John Edwards, minister; a letter, 1843, signed by John Pritchard, [Baptist minister] Llangollen and Hugh Jones, [Baptist minister] Cefnbychan, and in the hand of the former, recommending the bearer, Ellis Evans, Junior, to undertake a preaching tour; and a letter of dismission, [18]45, to John Edwards from Moelfre [Baptist Church, near Llansilin] to Cefn Mawr Church in the hand of, and signed by, D[avid] Rees. Bound into the beginning of the first volume are two holograph lists (one list very incomplete) by J. Spinther James; and at the end of the second volume are six holograph letters from J. Spinther James, Llandudno to J. H. Davies, 1910 (negotiations for the sale to the recipient of the letters and of other material, largely of Baptist interest, in the writer's possession). The volumes are lettered 'Llythyrau Bedyddwyr. Cronfa "Spinther"'.

Cymdeithas Lenyddol y Gerlan, Bethesda,

  • NLW MS 11024C.
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  • 1906-1919.

A minute book of the Literary Society of Gerlan Calvinistic Methodist Church, Gerlan, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, covering (with some gaps) the period 1906-19. Among the entries are detailed reports of lectures by Principal [Thomas] Rees, Bangor (on 'David Livingstone'), Professor [Sir] John Morris-Jones, Bangor ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion' and 'Pantycelyn'), Thomas Shankland, Bangor ('Morgan John Rhys, y Jacobin Cymreig'), S. Maurice Jones, Caernarvon ('Olion Hen Hanes Cymru', with illustrations, by the recorder, of Caernarvon Castle, Valle Crucis Abbey, the parliament house of Owain Glyndŵr at Dolgellau, Cefn Brith, etc.), J. H. Jones ('Je Aitsh'), Liverpool ('Y Cymro trwy lygad Said'), [Lewis Davies Jones] ('Llew Tegid') ('Trioedd hen a newydd), [Robert] Gwyneddon Davies and Mrs. [Grace] Gwyneddon Davies ('Alawon Gwerin'), T. Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth ('Pantycelyn'), etc.

'Diferyn Difyrrwch neu Ganiadau Plygeiniol',

  • NLW MS 4934B.
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  • [early 19 cent.].

'Diferyn Difyrrwch neu ganiadau plygeiniol er coffadwriaeth am ymddangosiad Duw yn y cnawd', being a collection made by G. C. Griffith of 'englynion', 'carolau', and other poems by Robert Hughes (Neuadd y blawd), William Griffith ('Gwilym ab Gryffydd', 1794), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas, 1800), David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifionydd'), G. C. Gryffydd (1816), and Richard Jones (Trefdraeth).

Griffith, G. C. fl. 1816.

Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon ...,

A volume (511 pp.) containing 'Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon ... gan Ymchwiliwr' ['sef John Jones (Myrddin Fardd)' added in another hand], a prize-winning entry at the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod, 1877; it is fuller than the published work bearing the same title. Inserts include a letter, 29 January 1806, from D[avid] T[homas] ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), Waunfawr to ?[David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion')] (the illness and death of the writer's brother, Humphrey [Thomas]), a letter, 1905, from [the Reverend] E[van] Evans, Llansadwrn Rectory, Menai Bridge to ['Myrddin Fardd'] (names of subscribers to Cynfeirdd Lleyn), a copy by 'Glynn' of the inscription on the (?) tombstone of the Reverend J. H. Hughes ('Ieuan o Leyn'), a letter, year not given, from [the Reverend] D. Roberts, Llanelidan Rectory, Ruthin to John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') (replying to a query concerning his father, the late Reverend William Roberts, rector of Llanddeiniolen), and a number of press cuttings, etc. There are also some sheets (161-173 and 329) from a later manuscript version of 'Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon' and a transcript by [W. H. Roberts ('Iseifion')] of a note by 'Myrddin Fardd' on David Williams, MP, JP, DL ('Dewi Heli') (see Cwrtmawr MS 932D).

Myrddin Fardd, 1836-1921

Geiriadur Wiliam Llŷn, barddoniaeth ac achau

'Geirlyfr William Lleyn'; 'Bardhoniaeth ... William Middelton'; pedigrees and arms, mainly of North Wales families; 'cywyddau', 'awdlau', etc. by Adda Fras, Iolo Goch, Maredudd ap Rhys, Robin Ddu, Rhys Nanmor, Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen, Dafydd Gorlech, Tudur Aled, Gruffudd ab Ieuan ab Llywelyn Fychan, Wiliam Llŷn, Sion Cent, Sion Tudur, Thomas Prys, Lewis Menai, Gruffudd Phylip, Richard Cynwal, Edmwnd Prys, Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan, Wiliam Phylip, Sion Bryncir, Siôn Phylip, Richard Phylip, Sion Dafydd Lâs [John Davies], Watcyn Clywedog, Mor[u]s Dwyfech [Morus ap Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion], Huw Lewis, Dafydd ap Hwlcyn ap Madog, Rhisiart Brych, Dafydd Jones ('Ficer Llanfair-Dyffryn-Clwyd'), Owen Gruffydd, Sion Lleyn [John Roberts], Taliesin, Rhys Goch Eryri, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Sion Roger, Sypyn Cyfeiliog [Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd], Bedo Brwynllys, Mathew Owen, Edward Morus, Huw Mor[y]s, Ieuan Dew Brydydd, Huw ab Ifan, Robert Davies (Nantglyn), Robin ab Iorwerth, Rolant Huw (Graienyn), Dewi Wyn [o Eifion] [David Owen], Griffith William (Braichtalog), Goronwy Owen, John Thomas (Pentrefeidiog) [i.e. Pentrefoelas], M[organ] D[avies], Griffith Puw, Dafydd Jones ('Tailiwr'), William ab Edward ('o'r Bennar'), Thomas Edwards ['Twm o'r Nant'], Lewis Morris, Ieuan Llwyd [Brydydd], Rhys Llwyd [Pant-y-piod], Rolant [Rowland] Jones (Pandy) [Roli Penllyn], Hugh Jones (Llangwm), John Jones [Jac] (Glan y Gors) and W[illiam] Jones [Bardd Môn]; 'englynion' by several authors; material relating to persons and places in Merioneth.

Letters

One of eight volumes consisting of several hundred letters, chiefly of the first half of the nineteenth century, written mainly to John Jenkins and his wife, to Walter Davies and his daughter Jane, and to John Vaughan (Penmaen Dyfi) and other members of his family, by numerous correspondents, including: William Oakeley, Aneurin Owen, Anne Warburton Owen, D. C. Lloyd Owen (Birmingham), David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), Francis Owen, William Owen (Gwilym Glan Hafren), William Owen [-Pughe], John Parker, David Parry (Carmarthen), Henry Parry (Llanasa), John Parry (Bardd Alaw), David Peter (Carmarthen), Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), Hugh Pugh (harper), William Pugh (Brynllywarch), and Huw Meyrig Puw (Patagonia).

Letters and poetry,

A folder containing eight files of original letters and copies of letters and poetry from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Files 1-3: Transcripts of letters by Lewis and Richard Morris, mainly to Evan Evans ('Ieuan Fardd') and Dafydd Jones of Trefriw, almost all published in Hugh Owen (ed.), Additional Letters of the Morrises of Anglesey (1735-1786), Y Cymmrodor, Vol. XLIX, 1947-9, the remainder published in G. J. Williams (gol.) Llythyrau at Ddafydd Jones o Drefriw. Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Atodiad. Cyfres III, Rhif 2 (1942), and J. H. Davies (ed.), The Letters of Lewis, Richard, William and John Morris of Anglesey (Morrisiaid Mon) (Aberystwyth, 1907-9). The original letters or copies from which these copies were transcribed are in the British Museum (Add MSS 14929, 15021, 15024, 15029) and the National Library of Wales (mainly Panton 74 and NLW MS 476). There is also a transcript of a letter from the Reverend Thomas Ellis, Holyhead to the Reverend Humphrey Owen and the Reverend J. Hoare, 1742 (the original letter is preserved in NLW MS 478), and a copy of Evan Evans's elegy to Lewis Morris, with notes on the text. File 4: Transcripts of letters from Edward Richard, Ystrad Meurig, c. 1759-1766, to Evan Evans ('Ieuan Fardd'). There are also copies of two short letters to Evan Evans from Roderick Lewis, Trefeglwys, and William Howell, Llanidloes, which were written on the same sheet as Edward Richard's letter of 1 March 1766. The original letters are preserved in NLW MS Panton 74. A transcript of a letter from Edward Richard, 1766, to Richard Morris (from BM Add MS 15025), and extracts from letters from Edward Richard to Lewis Morris, 1759 and undated (from BM Add MS 15029). A holograph letter from Edward Richard, Ystradmeuryg, 1762, to Lewis Morris, Penbryn (published in Hugh Owen, op. cit. Part II, pp. 562-3). File 5: A holograph letter from [the Reverend] W[illiam] Davies, Llanwryn [Montgomeryshire], 1710, to Henry Newman at the Reverend Mr Shute's in Bartlet's Buildings, London (receipt of letter and a packet from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, subscriptions from other parishes, has partly prevailed with a certain minister to become a corresponding member). The letter bears the number 2381 (see Mary Clement (ed.), Correspondence and minutes of the S.P.C.K. relating to Wales 1699-1740 (Cardiff, 1952), p. 35. Abstract No. 2381). Holograph letters (13) and some poetry,1791-1819, of D[avid] Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), Waunfawr, Bettws St Garmon, etc. Some of the letters have been published in [John Jones] 'Myrddin Fardd', Adgof uwch Anghof (Penygroes, 1883). The letters are addressed to John Roberts ('Sion Lleyn'), Pwllheli (4), 1791-1806 (corrections to addressee's poetry, tributes to writer's brother, Humphrey, after his death, some short poetical compositions by the writer), to Griffith Williams ('Gutyn Peris'), Llandygai (8), 1799-1819, (poetry, subjects upon which writer desired addressee to compose hymns, meetings of bards and eisteddfodau, comments and news of contemporary poets, writer's health and work), and one letter, addressee not named, 1804, (addressee's poetry which writer had received, desires addressee to render 2 Samuel XXII in strict metres and to ask other poets to do the same). The poetry includes verses entitled 'Y Cynauaf mawr diweddaf' subscribed 'D. T. a'i cant allan o'r Saesneg ar ddymuniad John Jones Llandwrog Medi 10d 1804 (cf. Dafydd Thomas (Dafydd Ddû Eryri), Corph y Gaingc (Caernarfon, 1834), pp. 323-4), and 'Englynion newyddion i Long newydd o Gaernarfon yr hon a elwir Valiant'. There is also some poetry in English by [John Blackwell ('Alun')] and in Welsh by Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'). A holograph letter from the Reverend P[eter] B[ailey] Williams, [1828], to David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Gaerwen (seeking to persuade addressee to become one of the adjudicators at the [?Denbigh] Eisteddfod etc.). File 6: Holograph letters (17) to Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), Clynnog, 1826-58, from John Breese, Pwllheli (5), 1851, 1958, (the Madog eisteddfod, 1851, presentation of a portrait of the addressee and the publication of an engraving; addressee's son, James), William Evans, Llandwrog, 1852 (entreating addressee to visit him, a number of other people also invited addressee to visit them), Walter Griffith ('Walter Bach'), Bethesda, 1835 (writer and his brother had moved to Bethesda from Nazareth, his brother had emigrated to America in 1834, writer had been in a school and was now an apprentice, he had learnt the rules of poetry in the evenings whilst attending school, John Athelston Owen ('Bardd Meirion') had lodged in part of his father's house, details concerning Cymdeithas Gymreigyddol Bethesda), Robert Hughes ('Robyn Wyn o Eifion'), Liverpool, 1843 (enclosing a 'cywydd' in reply to addressee, states he was born on New Year's day, 1824, does not know when he will return), [Reverend] David Jones, Caernarfon (2) 1855-6 [to Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd')] (case of a young man to be brought before the Monthly Meeting, adjudication in a competition for an elegy to the Reverend Thomas Richards, Fishguard), short comments on the competitors and note of correspondence by 'Eben Fardd' attached, R[obert] Jones ('Tecwyn Meirion'), Liverpool, 1837 (enclosing his translation of Charles Wolfe's 'The Burial of Sir John Moore', which he compares with the translations published in Y Gwladgarwr [Mai 1837, pp 131-2], recollection of a meeting at Clynnog some years earlier), John Morgan, Merthyr Tydfil, 1850 (request by the committee of the Cymrodorion Dirwestol that the addressee should be the adjudicator of the poetry competition in the eisteddfod to be held on Christmas Day, [Evan Jones] ('Ieuan Gwynedd')'s criticism of an essay on 'Athroniaeth Dirwest'), copy of a reply by 'Eben Fardd' attached in which he states his opinion of 'Ieuan Gwynedd', Evan Prichard ('Ieuan Lleyn'), Tydweiliog, 1826 (enclosing verses greeting the addressee, desires to have a copy of addressee's 'Awdl ar Ddynystr Caersalem' if it was printed), William Roberts ('Nefydd'), Blaenau Works, 1851 (enclosing ten shillings towards addressee's portrait, requests addressee to keep the engraving until he would call for it, comments on matters connected with the eisteddfod and the award of a chair for a 'pryddest'), J[ohn] Thomas ('Sion Wyn o Eifion'), Chwilog, 1843, (writer's health, enclosing 'englynion' to greet addressee's newly-born son, possibility of writer and addressee writing something jointly), S. Prideaux Tregelles, Neath Abbey, 1845 (writer's journey to Italy, sending a prospectus of his proposed work, he had requested a friend to send addressee tracts on prophetic subjects, requests a copy of addressee's 'Awdl on the harvest' if it was printed), the Reverend D[avid] Williams, Bottwnog 1834, and Llandwrog 1844 (addressee's appointment as master of the school at Pwllheli), with a copy made by 'Eben Fardd' of an extract from a letter written by Lord Newborough to Mr Mostyn relating to Ebenezer Thomas's Methodism and that a clergyman had always been appointed master of the Pwllheli school, the Reverend M[orris] Williams (Nicander'), Bangor, 1841 (considers the Book of Job was poetry as well as history, the addressee's 'awdl' on Job, titles for books of poems, English bishops in Wales), and 'englynion' to greet 'Eben Fardd' by John Jones and a carol (1834). Copies made by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') of letters written by him to [William Davies] 'Gwilym Teilo', 1855 (reminds addressee of the promise of renumeration for adjudicating at an eisteddfod made when writer was asked to be an adjudicator), John Breese, 1858 (death of writer's daughter, requests to withdraw his son from addressee's office to remain at home with his bereaved mother), the Reverend Morris Williams ('Nicander'), Amlwch (2) 1849 (their personal relationship after the Aberffraw eisteddfod), Robert Jones, draper, Portmadog (2), 1852 (reasons for his resignation from the post of schoolmaster of Ynys-y-galch school, Portmadoc, which he had accepted, his family did not wish to leave Clynnog and the Monthly Meeting had guaranteed him £30 p.a. for five years).

Holograph letters (5), 1812-43 and undated, to John Thomas ('Sion Wyn o Eifion'), Chwilog, from William [Ellis] Jones ('Cawrdaf'), London, 1818 (has received little support after coming to London, the Royal Academy of Arts was closed at present and he had not been able to show anything substantial there but intends to show eight or nine [pictures] there the following year), William Owen, Llangybi, 1812 (seeks addressee's opinion on a religious matter, hopes to meet him on Saturday), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') (hopes he has not upset addressee by his note, feels addressee is more depressed than usual, hopes to visit Chwilog soon, enjoys reading and meditating but finds strict poetry a burden although he enjoys free metre poetry similar to the English), David Williams, Bron Eryri, 1843 (regrets he us unable to help addressee as agent for his landlord, he has decided to give up his agency because Sir Love and Lady Parry were so averse to reduce their tenants' rents and place them on the same footing as the tenants of other landlords), Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'), undated (enclosing poetry, has heard that addressee intended to be baptised, religious sentiments). Holograph letters and poetry, 1795-1806, addressed to John Roberts ('Sion Lleyn'), Pwllheli from Jonathan Hughes (1753-1834?), Pengwern, [1806] (poetry in remembrance of his father, seeks help in obtaining subscribers for his book [Gemau Awen (Croesoswallt, 1806)]), T[homas] Roberts [Llwynrhudol], Llundain (2), 1801, 1804 (despatch of copies of addressee's 'awdl', has also sent six copies of [Llythyrau Mr Edward Jones (Llundain, 1801)], Gwyneddigion meeting, news of addressee's daughters in London, details of the 'awdl' competition in the Gwyneddigion eisteddfod of 1804), a 'cywydd' in the form of a dialogue between the bard and the muse by [Thomas Williams] 'Twm Pedrog' from Edeyrn, 1795 (see J. Jones, Cynfeirdd Lleyn (Pwllheli, 1905), pp. 242-6) addressed to [John Roberts] 'Sion Lleyn', 'Awdl ar Ddedwyddwch' by 'Gwilym ab Gwilym' [William Williams ('Gwilym Peris')], Llanberis, the subject set at the Llanddeiniolen eisteddfod 1802, with some comments by 'Sion Lleyn' (cf. William Williams, Awen-Gerdd Peris (Trefriw, 1813), pp. 19-24). Holograph letters from Daniel Davies, Llundain, [18]20, to David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri') (agrees with addressee's opinion of 'Awdl y Dryw' [i.e. the 'awdl' entitled 'Elusengarwch' by the Reverend Edward Hughes ('Y Dryw'), which was judged the best at the Denbigh eisteddfod 1819], the controversy concerning the decision, future eisteddfodau, a large number of copies of the 'awdl' by D[avid] O[wen] ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion') had been sold, sending two papers to be forwarded to Bron y gader and to D[avid] O[wen], wishes to be remembered to his relatives in Pontnewydd), J[ohn] Williams ('Ioan Twrog'), Pandybach, 1836, to Richard Jones ('Gwyndaf Eryri'), Caernarvon (conduct of 'Alltud', a competitor in the 'pryddest' competition, see letter in Cw. 863), J. Robert, Ty Dû, 1795, to Dafydd Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri') (enclosing a 'cywydd' which addressee could recite at the Penmorfa eisteddfod if he thought it appropriate, gives details of the singing of his 'cywydd', poets in the Bala district), [William Rowlands] 'Gwilym Lleyn', Aberystwyth (2) 1860-1, to [?Owen Jones ('Manoethwy')] (enquiring concerning John Jones, author of Considerations on the Illegality and Impropriety of preferring Clergymen who are unacquainted with the Welsh Language to Benefices in Wales (1768), suggestion that he was John Jones of Gelliwig in Lleyn, the Brut published in Trysorfa Gwybodaeth neu Eurgrawn Gymraeg 1770), the Reverend Owen Jones ('Meudwy Môn'), Llandudno, (4 letters and a fragment), 1870-78, to J[ohn] Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') (sale of manuscripts, loan of books and manuscripts, writer's literary work), Edgar Bennett, Portmadoc, 1886, to John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') (has read the books addressee had lent him, hopes to see him the following Saturday, sending documents which addressee could copy), D. ap Huw, 1856, addressee not named (disgust at the contents of Yr Herald Cymraeg, wishes to cease to be a subscriber), a copy of a statement deploring the state of the Welsh press, 1856, stated to have accompanied a letter addressed to [William] R[ees], portion of a letter which states the writer does not care if [ ] hears that he has informed addressee and referring to the work writer had undertaken, a statement in defence of the present generation of poets of Arfon, 1804, in reply to a letter by [John Roberts] 'Sion Lleyn', a holograph letter from Norman Penney, librarian of the Friends' Reference Library, London, 1911, to D. R. Daniel, London (the family of Thomas Roberts [Llwynrhudol]), a song (to the tune 'Bryniau yr Iwerddon') entitled "Can newydd yn gosod allan hardd a doeth deyrnasiad yr Arglwydd ar y ddaer' by D[avid] Edwards, Bala, c. 1830, 'Cywydd Marwnad Sion Evan Griffith' by [?Evan Pritchard] 'Evan Lleun', 'Englynion i'r Parchedig John Jones, A.M., a elwir ymysg y Beirdd Ioan Tegyd' by 'Sion Brwynog o Edeirnion', a copy of 'englynion', etc. from BM Add MS 14974, some temperance poetry, a folio from a manuscript bearing the statement 'Rhys ap Sion o'r Tyddyn Mawr yn y Brynaich o Blwyf Llanfachreth yw Iawn Berchenog y Llyfr hwn, a ysgrifenodd ef yn y Flwyddyn o oedran ein Iachawdwr Iesu Grist 1754'. Some of the letters in this file (No. 6) have been published in Adgof Uwch Anghof. File 7: Holograph letters from Lady Eleanor Butler, Llangollen Vale, Feb. 28 [ ], endorsed in another hand 'to Miss Hayman sub Governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales' (regrets addressee had not been able to visit them before leaving Wales, gratitude for the help of addressee, Lady Sheffield and the Princess in their unsuccessful attempt to obtain a post in the Foreign Office for their (writer and Miss Ponsonby) protege Dalby, who was a gifted linguist, additions to her book collection), [the Reverend] John Williams ('Williams Lledrod'; 1747-1831), Pentre [Padarn, Llanbadarn Odwyn], 1829, to his son, John Williams, Excise Officer, Stroudwater, Gloucestershire, (death of writer's wife, family and local news), the Reverend David Charles (1803-80), Caervyrddin, and the Reverend Thomas Evans, Llanstephan (the letter was written by the Reverend David Charles) to The Committee of the Aberystwith Association, [1837], (the preparation of a new collection of hymns following the death of the Reverend Ebenezer Richards [sic], who had been preparing the collection), [the Reverend] James Hughes ('Iago Trichrug'), [1842], to the Reverend D. Roberts (portion of letter only) (verses giving details of writer's life, promises to give addressee details of his life if he would give him details of addressee's life, death of the Reverend Jenkin Davies, writer's opinion of William Morris, religious matters). A holograph letter from the Reverend Thomas Charles, Bala, [2 July 1784], to Mrs [Sarah] Charles, [at] Mr Boult's, Chester, (the writer and the colt had arrived home safely, looking forward to the day of their meeting again) (published in D. E. Jenkins, The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles of Bala ... , 3 vols (Denbigh, 1908), Vol I, p. 495), copies of (3) letters from the Reverend Thomas Charles to [Mrs Foulkes, Machynlleth, and ?Miss Foulkes], 1811 and undated, (sending addressee an extra fine copy of the Welsh Bible, his wife's health and local news) (published in D. E. Jenkins, op. cit. Vol III, 205-6, 384-5, 410-11). File 8: A holograph letter from T. Vaughan Roberts, London, 1908, to J. H. Davies, Aberystwyth (sending copies of letters he had transcribed), lists of letters in [NLW MS] Panton 74 and BM Add MSS 14929, 15023-6 and 15028-33, a transcript of 'A Dialogue between a Highland Welshman newly come to London and a citizen, upon the situation of affairs in Britain' from BM Add MS 14929.

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