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Holograph letters addressed to Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'). The writers include Owen Jones, Carnarvon, 1829 (a payment due from Owen Hughes, encloses 30/-); [Rev.] D[avid] Williams, Llandwrog Rectory and Bodelwyddan Rectory, 1843-62 (32) (information concerning Miss Lloyd, an appointment with Mr Simpson, the application of Thomas Owen for admission to the Training College, the success of pupils recommended by the writer, William Price's complaints, the death of the recipient's child and of the writer's brother-in-law, requests for Welsh translations, a visit from one of the writer's venerated uncle's old schoolmasters, the illness of the recipient's son, the relationship between the writer and the recipient, the writer's visit to Hengwrtuchaf in Merioneth, the writer's pedigree, an explanation of the writer's wearing of an academic hood and a stole, a request to the recipient to bring his medals to an exhibition, lectures by the writer, the recipient's secession from 'our venerable Church', the death of the recipient's wife, the writer's removal to Bodelwyddan, the marriage of the writer's daughter, instructions to present tea to 'Dafydd the Clochydd' and his wife and to Nelly 'our old servant', a discourteous act by a tenant, the writer's possession of a bell, a gift for the recipient's son, the writer's proposed visit to the 'Poetess Meinwen Elwy', correspondence between the recipient and the writer's daughter, the death of the recipient's son), Margt. A Williams (daughter of D. Williams), Llandwrog Rectory and Bôd Elwyddan Parsonage, 1860-2 (5) (the acceptance by the writer's father of the incumbency of Bodelwyddan, the illness of the recipient's son, the writer's visit to Llandwrog, the writer's marriage to Mr [Edmund Thomas] Watts, incumbent of Dyserth, personal), Dan Vawdrey, Clynog and Plasgwynant, Beddgelert, 1843 (4) (a gift of a number of The Protestant and the offer of a loan of other numbers at Plasgwynant, a request for a loan of a book, the engagement of a servant woman, the rescue of a vessel off the coast), J[ames] H[enry] Cotton, Deanery, Bangor, 1845 (recommending the character of the Reverend E. L. Davies), Edwd. Edwards, Penrhos [Holyhead], 1844-52 (14) (the payment of arrears of rent and other matters arising from the writer's agency of the Penrhos estate, Clynnog tithe apportionment, a request for an 'englyn' in return for a gift of an address on 'Draining', the publication of Y Traethodydd, regret on account of the 'Welsh Missionaries' and the possible disruption of the 'Calvinistic Body', the recipient's wish that sectarianism be renounced, a new Sunday School method adopted by the recipient, the industrial development of the Holyhead district, the writer's wish to see the separation of Church and State, preparations for the Madog Eisteddfod, the writer's wish to see E[llis] Owen [of Cefnymeusydd], the forthcoming parliamentary election), M. Hughes [of Clynnog Vicarage] from Gogarth, 1848 (4) (the illness of the writer's husband and his consequent absence from his parish), [Rev.] Lewis Hughes, Gogarth, 1848 (the writer's illness and his consequent departure from Clynnog, the writer's visit to Aberystwyth, thanks for hymns, the writer's rather gracious reception by the Bishop, visits to the writer by 'Bob y Garn', a request to the writer from the Dean [J. H. Cotton] for a contribution towards the repair of St Beuno's Chapel, unfavourable comments on the writer's successor [Robert Williams] at Clynnog, personal), [Rev.] Hugh Owen, secretary, Eisteddfod Aberffraw (1849), from Trefeilir, Aberffraw, 1848-50 (12) (the Aberffraw eisteddfod and the controversy arising from the adjudications in the 'awdl' competition), [Rev.] R[obert] Phillips, Bettws [yn Rhos] Vicarage, near Abergele, 1836-50 (9) (requests for hymns for harvest and Sunday School services and for publication in the writer's anthology, the writer's health), J. Williams, Tynewydd, undated (the writer's ancestry), Robert Simpson, Plas Bodewryd, near Amlwch, [18]52 (requesting the recipient to arrange appointments at Aber and Clynnog), [Joseph Charles Edwards] ('Iorwerth Ddu o Von'), Keyingham Parsonage, near Hull, 1852 (thanks for 'englynion', the writer's lecture in London, the writer's Welsh servant), 'Thistle' (pseud.), 4 St. Andrews Place, Regents Park [London], 1853 (7) (subscriptions and contributions to The Bouquet edited by the writer), [Sir] Hugh Owen, Whitehall, 1853-8 (8) (the necessity of introducing some supplement to the public preaching of the Gospel in Wales', the appointment of the recipient to the Provisional Committee of the Normal College for North Wales, the recipient's tribute to the memory of John Jones of Talsarn, attempts to secure a situation for the recipient's boy) (together with a copy of a letter, 1859 [recte 1858], from S[amuel] Prout Newcombe to H. Owen, regretting his inability to provide an opening for the son of 'Eben Fardd'), Lady [Augusta] Hall of Llanover, 1854 (the Ffestiniog meeting was not an Eisteddfod, money should not be asked nominally for one object when it is really for another), Peter Maurice, New College [Oxford], and South Grove, Highgate, 1857-9 (14) (the publication of the writer's Choral Harmony and Supplement and the recipient's assistance with the Welsh portions), John Owen, Thrussington, Loughborough, 1858-61 and undated (10) (the writer's selection of hymns published under the title of Emynau ..., condolence, a subscription to a testimonial to the Reverend William Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog'] of Liverpool), Ed. Morgan, Syston Vicarage, near Leicester, etc., 1841-60 and undated (21) (the writer's memoirs of Howel Harris, of John Elias, and of William Williams of Pantycelyn, the possibility of the recipient's ordination in the Church of England, a present to the recipient of the Welsh works of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror, a subscription for the recipient's portrait, personal), Tho. Cambria Jones, St Asaph, 1859 (thanks for the recipient's 'happy translations' for publication, the writer's health, the recipient's appearance), W[illiam] Bulkeley Hughes [MP], London, 1857 (the vacant postmastership of Caernarvon), Georgiana Trower, Redbill, Reigate, and Bideford, [1859 and] undated (4) (an enclosed ballad, the writer's health, a contribution by the writer to the Cambrian Journal, condolence, news of friends, the writer's impressions of North Devon, the recipient's appreciation of the writer's letters, a gift of a 'little book' by the writer), [Sir] Llewelyn Turner, Parkia, Carnarvon, 1861 (2) (meetings of the [Caernarvon, 1862, National] Eisteddfod and the writer's views on the function of the eisteddfod), J[ohn] Williams Ellis ('Druid'), Glasfryn [Llangybi], [18]61 (the recipient's plan of a turnpike gate, a gift of a book), and [?] Hughes, undated (books borrowed from the recipient, the Nanhoron pedigree). On one of the fly-leaves is an incomplete list of scribes in the hand of J. H. Davies. The volume is lettered 'MSS Eminent Letters'.

A scrap book compiled by ?John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') containing undated cuttings from Welsh and Welsh American newspapers, among those (identified on internal evidence) being Y Gweithiwr, Y Celt and Y Drych. Titles include 'Y Flwyddyn' (being an account of Welsh customs associated with feast days) partly signed by 'M.M.', 'Nodiadau Henafiaethol' by O[wen] Morgan ('Morien'), Pontypridd, 'Hynafiaeth Llanilltyd Fawr' by [David Watkin Jones] 'Dafydd Morganwg', 'Hynafiaethau Ceredigion' by John Rowlands ('Giraldus'), Cardiff , 'Yr Eisteddfod' by [Lewis Williams Lewis] 'Llew Llwyfo', 'Gwyddoniaeth, Moesoldeb a Chrefydd' by R. C. Roberts, Deerfield, N. Y., 'Llydaw a'r Llydawiaid' (being a report of a lecture delivered [in Liverpool] by E[dward] Thomas ('Cochfarf'), Cardiff), 'Beirniadaethau Eisteddfod Utica, N. Y.' 'Hirhoedledd' by the Reverend J. H. Jones, Rome, N. Y., 'Pa fodd y mae dyn yn byw, symud ac yn bod' ('Gan Feddyg o Pasadena, Calif.'), and 'Hanes y Bedyddwyr ym mhlwyf Gelligaer' by the Reverend R[ichard] Evans, Hengoed. Also included in the volume are the printed articles of incorporation of 'Cymdeithas Gymreigyddol Powys', 1861, and a printed circular appeal by the editor, Beriah Gwynfe Evans, on behalf of Cyfaill yr Aelwyd. Inset are cuttings, extracted from another scrap book, of articles (Llythyrau I-IV) on 'Griffith Williams, Esgob Ossary, a'i amserau' published by J[ohn] J[ones], rector of Llanllyfni, in Yr Herald Cymraeg, 1857.

Letters from David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), Llanystumdwy, Traeth Coch, Bettws St Garmon, Waunfawr, etc. to the following correspondents: John Roberts, [Siôn Lleyn], Pwllheli, 1791-1812 (7) ('Cyfrinach y Beirdd', criticism of an elegy by 'Siôn Lleyn', the unfriendly attacks of Siôn Wm Prichard, the work of Owen Jones ('Owain Myfyr'), etc.), David Owen ['Dewi Wyn o Eifion'], Gaerwen, Llanystumdwy, 1804-07, (3) ('Dosparth Morganwg - Speciments of Morganian Poetry', Dewi Wyn's elegy on Goronwy [Owen], Yr Eurgrawn), Richard Roberts, Harper at Cevn Mine near Pwllheli, 1804 (1) (writer's disagreement with some of the Gwyneddigion and other bardic matters), Thos. Edward[s], Cofiadur C[ymdeithas Y] G[wyneddigion], care of Mr. O. Jones, 148 Upper Thames Street, London, 1806 (1) (writer's disagreement with some of the Gwyneddigion), and one to an unnamed person, 1806 (an essay Dafydd Ddu has written on Welsh poesy); and miscellaneous letters as follows: J. Thomas [Siôn Wyn o Eifion'] to his uncle, J. Roberts [Sion Lleyn], Pen'rallt, Pwllheli, 1809 (his feelings on the subject of religion); D. Thomas, ['Dafydd Ddu Eryri'], Dolydd to John Thomas ['Siôn Wyn o Eifion'], Chwilog, 1821 (his inability to find the addressee's book and his intention to move to Llanrug); O. Williams ['Owain Gwyrfai'], Waunfawr to Ebanezer [sic] Thomas ['Eben Fardd'], Schoolmaster, Llanarmon, nr. Pwllheli, 1827 (2) (an invitation to Waunfawr to discuss matters concerning a school), a copy in the autograph of 'Eben Fardd' of a letter from Rob. Williams, Fron deg, to Js. Wyatt, Esq., Lime Grove, 1835 (recommending Eben Fardd as a writer and accountant if a vacancy occurs); Dafydd Llwyd, Llanystymdwy to Ebenezer Thomas ['Eben Fardd'], Llangybi [18]23 (a vacancy at Llanystumdwy School); a note from Owen Williams, [Towyn] to his friends at Capel isaf Celynog [sic] (his 'Holwyddoreg am Grist a'r Pab'), 'Cybi Eifion' [i.e. Ebenezer Thomas], Llangybi to John Thomas, ['Siôn Wyn o Eifion'], Chwilog, 1822 (Seren Gomer); E. Thomas to John Thomas, 1826 (how he went to Abererch the previous day to be confirmed); H[umphrey] Gwalchmai, Oswestry to [Ebenezer] Thomas, 1843 (the addressee's parcel); Ebenezer Thomas, Clynnog to R. Saunderson, Printer, Bala, 1835 (the addressee's wish to see an original composition by Eben Fardd together with a translation) (holograph copy); memoranda concerning the grant by Arvon and Lleyn & Eifionydd Monthly Meetings to Eben Fardd's school, 1857-8; a letter from Y Graig Monthly Meeting, Caernarvonshire to [Eben Fardd], 1852 (hoping that he will not leave Clynnog for Portmadoc and promising £30 p.a. for at least five years); Samuel Jones and Richard Thomas, Tydweiliog to Ebenezer Thomas, Schoolmaster, Clynog, 1828 (2) (urging him to come to Tydweiliog to keep a school); Edmund Francis, Carnarvon to David Lloyd, Shoemaker, Llanystymdwy, 1829 (referring to the completion of the translation of the Commission and to the seventh number of a certain publication); R. Jones, Llanllyfni to E. Thomas, 1850 (returning a book - is glad the addressee's honest conduct at the Aberffraw eisteddfod is receiving so much public acknowledgement); Ieuan Prisiart, Ty Mawr, Bryncroes to John Roberts, Bardd, Pen y mount, Pwlleli, undated (concerning poetry and eisteddfodau); John Roberts, Llanbrynmair to John Thomas, ['Siôn Wyn o Eifion'], Chwilog, 1815 (his inability to come to the meeting at Pwllheli and the addressee's loss of such a friend as Mrs Nanney), John Jones, Talysarn to Ebeneser Thomas, Clunog, 1840 (the unsuccessful efforts of Robert Owain and the writer to urge the elders of the various churches in those parts to join to hold a school), and to John Jones, Ffactori, Clunog, 1841 (a preaching invitation); David Jones, Caernarfon and Treborth to E. Thomas, Clynnog, 1858 and 1862 (2) (the grant to the addressee's school and the addressee's letter of resignation), and to an unnamed correspondent, undated; and Ellis James, Vaynol to [E. Thomas], 1860 (the resolution of the Llanrug Monthly Meeting if E. Thomas feels it is his duty to move to Pwllheli). It appears that an item in the autograph of John Elias was at one time to be found between letters 20 and 21. Some of the letters have been published in Adgof Uwch Anghof.

A composite volume almost entirely in the hand of John Jones (1796-1857), Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Tal-sarn, Caernarvonshire, containing notes of sermons and (?)addresses and some extracts from printed religious works e.g. William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'): Traethawd ar Grefydd Naturiol a Datguddiedig ... (Dinbych, 1841). One sermon is written partly on the dorse of a statement of account due from John Jones to Richard Jones [blacksmith], 1831.