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Amrywiaeth o gasgliad William John Roberts (Gwilym Cowlyd)

  • NLW MS 8539E
  • File
  • [1848] x [1904]

A file entitled 'Amryw o Gasgliad Gwilym Cowlyd'. It includes lists of books received by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ['Gwilym Cowlyd']; draft correspondence; notes; a transcript of the programme of the 1903 prayer week at Llanrwst; a collecting book for the Jubilee Celebrations at Llanrwst, 1887; a catalogue of a sale of books and manuscripts, etc. at Cowlyd House, Llanrwst, 1897; a copy of an agreement for the lease of a printing press to John Lloyd Roberts, Llanddoged, 1891; and a poster of 'The Institutional Gorsedd ... and Bardic Anniversary' held on the banks of Llyn Geirionydd, 1899.

Gwilym Cowlyd, 1828-1904

Amrywiaeth,

Miscellaneous papers and fragments from the collections of W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), and W[illiam] Hobley, including lists of contents of a manuscript containing Welsh poetry compiled by Lewis Morris; 'Cyfrinach y Beirdd'; vaticinations by Merthyn Ddu and Molengol Abad y Werddon; notes on Llanberis and Margaret verch Evan of Penllyn addressed to Dl. Gregory, Dol Badarn Castle Inn; a transcript of Rhesymau ysgrythyrol yn profi mae dyledswydd pob math o wrandawyr yw cyfranu yn ol eu gallu at gynhalaaeth cysyrus ei gweinidogion (Thomas Gouge, 1693); prospectus of Beibl Teuluaidd, Mawrth 5 1827; 'Cywydd o glod i E. Sharpe, ysw., am ei ymdrech diflino er ffurfiad Rheilffordd o Gonwy i Llanrwst'; a list of books at Penrhyn Aberffraw; copies of letters relating to the 1863 Eisteddfod at Swansea and to an eisteddfod to be held at Wrexham; an offprint from the Cambridge Tribune, 23 September 1899, containing an account of the installation of Elizabeth Driver as a bard of the 'warranted gorsedd' on the banks of Llyn Geirionydd; notes on the career of Henry Jonathan, Caernarvon; a letter by R. Gwilym Jones from Shaistaganj, India, 1925; an appeal by Samuel Roberts ('S.R.') to H. Humphreys, Caernarvon, for a subscription towards his Postal Reforms testimonial; and a County Council election address by John Blackwell, Llanrwst, 1888, printed by W. J. Roberts.

Gwilym Cowlyd, William Hobley and others.