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Miscellaneous poems from the collection of W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including poems by Owen Roberts, 'Brysiog Machno' and 'I. D. Conwy'.

Adjudications by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ['Gwilym Cowlyd'] and papers relating to 'Arwest Geirionydd' and 'eisteddfodau' held at Llanrwst, 1878-1904.

Original manuscripts of poems submitted for competition at 'Arwest Farddonol Glan Geirionydd' and other 'eisteddfodau', 1880-1894; and notes of an address and adjudications by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ['Gwilym Cowlyd'] at Eisteddfod Meirion, Dolgellau, 1881.

Holograph and other letters:- Sally Auckland Jones, Alder Hey Hospital, West Derby, Liverpool, to Mrs. [ ] Davies, [19]20 (a vacancy at Llanwnda [co. Caerarvon] for a district nurse); Owen W. Pritchard, Groeslon, to [W. Gilbert] Williams, [19]32 (reminiscences of Rhostryfan); T. Gwynedd Roberts, Conwy, to [John Williams, Tal-y-bont, Rhostryfan], 1898 (a biography of the writer towards a history of the Calvinistic Methodist cause at Rhostryfan); William Roberts, Bod Gwilym, Caernarfon, to W[illiam] Williams, Glyndyfrdwy, 1898 (the recipient's article on Gruffydd Dafydd and the Bodgarad family) (one carbon and one typescript copy); Wm. Jno. Roberts, Rhostryfan, to [W. J. Roberts] 'G[wilym] Cowlyd', 1862 (subscriptions to Geirionydd); W[illiam] Williams, Glyndyfrdwy, to [William] Roberts [Bod Gwilym, Caernarfon], 1898-1900 (personal, the writer' s article on Gruffydd Dafydd and the Bodgarad family); and W[illiam] Elias Williams, Penygroes, near Carnarvon, to J. Williams [Rhostryfan], 1898 (a biography of the writer). Also included in the volume are a typescript annotation on the letters by [W. Gilbert Williams], 1938, and a typescript and manuscript pedigree of the Bodgarad family.

A file of press cuttings kept by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including reports of 'eisteddfodau' held at Llanrwst, 1876-1904.

A collection of papers, 1831-1949, relating to John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), accumulated by his great-niece Lilian M. Jones.
They include holograph poems and lyrics in English and Welsh, [1843]-1868, mostly composed, but some copied, by Talhaiarn (ff. 1-24). Also included are fifty-three letters, 1857-1868, from the poet to his niece, Elizabeth Anne Jones, with some holograph poems appended (ff. 25-124); seven letters, 1848-1869, from him to family members and his publisher W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd') (ff. 125-37); four letters, 1869-1870, to his brother Thomas Jones (ff. 147-54), including three from John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'); a letter, 1870, from John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia') to Elizabeth Jones (ff. 155-6); and three letters, 1939-1940, to Lilian Jones (ff. 157-60). In addition, the file contains various papers relating to Talhaiarn and his family, including the signed title page of his second volume of works, 1862 (f. 161), lists of subscribers to his third volume of works (ff. 163-4), and to the Talhaiarn Annuity Fund, 1864 (ff. 166 verso-167); administrative papers, 1869-1871, relating to his estate (ff. 169-83); press cuttings, 1869-1949 (mainly 1869-1870) (ff. 184-99); and various papers, including a copy of Talhaiarn's 'Gorsedd Prayer' in an unknown hand (f. 205). Among the works by Talhaiarn are the holograph poems to his niece, Elizabeth Anne Jones (ff. 1, 2, 4-8, 23, 42-3), 'The Zephyr and the Rose' (f. 9), 'Diver' (ff. 10-13), 'Psalm' (f. 14-15, 67), and the printed lyrics of 'A part song on the coming of age of William Grenville Williams', Bodelwyddan, 1865 (f. 17). Also included is a cutting of a tribute by Talhaiarn to Sir Joseph Paxton (f. 17 verso).

Walliæ Curiosa. A Catalogue of ... Books ... on sale by W. J. Roberts, ... Llanrwst, 1881, with annotations by Egerton Phillimore; a catalogue of books to be sold at Cowlyd House, Llanrwst, 1897; and a fragment of a manuscript catalogue of books.