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Descriptions of Llanover manuscripts,

A notebook in the hand of D. Silvan Evans containing descriptive observations on, and some extracts from, manuscripts of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') at Llanover Court, Monmouthshire (now in the National Library of Wales, NLW MSS 13061-184). At the beginning of the volume is an index in the hand of J. H. Davies. Inset, in the hand of D. Silvan Evans, is a list of some Llanover manuscripts said to have been examined in some detail ('gyda rhyw faint o fanylder'), 21-26 June 1875.

Deunydd amrywiol

Miscellanea, including a draft of a letter from Richard Parry (Gwalchmai) (1803-1897) to Daniel Silvan Evans (1818-1903) about adjudications given at a London eisteddfod, papers relating to the Congregational church, Llandudno, a biographical note on Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) (1795-1855), etc.

Emynau Ieuan Lleyn ac eraill,

A small notebook containing hymn stanzas partly in the autograph of D. Silvan Evans and partly in another hand [? that of John Henry (Silvan) Evans, son of D. Silvan Evans]. The hymns attributed to [Evan Pritchard] 'Ieuan Lleyn' are 'Nesau mae'r dydd - O ddedwydd wawr!' and 'Gweithredoedd Rhagluniaeth' ('Mor amlwg rhyfeddol weithredoedd ....'); in the case of the remainder the author's name is not given.

Geiriadur Cenhedlaethol Cymraeg a Saesneg ...,

An imperfect interleaved copy of W. Owen Pughe, Geiriadur Cenhedlaethol Cymraeg a Saesneg. A National Dictionary of the Welsh Language [3rd ed., by Robert John Pryse, Denbigh, 1866], with copious annotations and additions, mainly in the hand of Robert Roberts ('Y Sgolor Mawr') and occasionally in the hand of D. Silvan Evans.

General letters to O. M. Edwards

The file includes letters from A. H. D. Acland (3), Bishop A. G. Edwards, D. Silvan Evans (4), Thomas Gee, J. Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'), Michael D. Jones, Daniel Owen (4), H. Isambard Owen, J. Herbert Roberts (Lord Clwyd), W. Llewelyn Williams

Acland, Arthur Herbert Dyke, 1847-1926

General letters to O. M. Edwards

The file includes letters from E. V. Arnold, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), D. Silvan Evans, John M. Howell, Aberaeron, Thomas Levi, Aberystwyth (2), J Herbert Lewis, H. Isambard Owen, Bishop John Owen (2), R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos'), D. Lleufer Thomas.

Ellis, Thomas Edward, 1859-1899

General letters to O. M. Edwards

The file includes letters from J. Gwynoro Davies (1), 1884, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), 1884, D. Silvan Evans, 1885, and Sir Henry Jones, 1884.

Davies, J. Gwynoro (John Gwynoro), 1855-1935

Gramadeg Saesneg,

A short grammar of the English language written in Welsh by 'Glasryw'. The title is wanting but the second part is described as 'Byr Rammadeg o'r Iaith Saesoneg. Yn fwy enwedig lle y gwahana hi oddiwrth Yr Iaith Gymreig'. There are sections dealing in turn with phonology, accidence, and syntax. The work was intended for competition and opens with an explanatory address to the adjudicators ('At y Barnwyr'). Beginning at the end, in the hand of Daniel Silvan Evans, is an alphabetical list of Welsh synonyms ('Cyfystyron yr Iaith Gymraeg') and the names of subscribers to the writer's proposed A Dictionary of the Welsh Language [Carmarthen, 1887-1906].

Gwaith Ieuan Brydydd Hir - I,

A composite volume (256 pp.) probably put together by J. H. Davies containing material gathered by D. Silvan Evans for Gwaith y Parchedig Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'), with some additional items (typescript) transcribed by 'T. H. J.' The printed volume appeared in 1876 (Caernarfon: Argraffedig gan H. Humphreys); however, the work had been in progress for a number of years. Pages 1-150 are almost entirely in the autograph of D. Silvan Evans and date from 1853 while pp. 151-226 contain transcripts made in 1861 by 'W. H. M. [i.e. Captain W. H. Mounsey, Carlisle, whose help Silvan Evans acknowledges in the preface to the printed volume]. A sheet addressed to 'Mr John Pryse, Bookseller, Llanidloes' (p. 144) and a possible reference to him by W. H. M[ounsey] (p. 165) suggest a connection between D. Silvan Evans and John Pryse. It is known from Pryse's reprint [1862] of Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the ancient Welsh Bards ..., p. [212] that he intended to publish a volume of 'The Welsh Works of Ieuan Prydydd Hir, (Barddoniaeth, Pregethau, a Llythyrau)' to be edited by 'one of the most eminent Welsh Literateurs'; however, the intention does not seem to have materialised. J. H. Davies has written at the end of the text 'All printed' [referring to the 1876 volume]; this is the case except for pp. 249-251.

Gwaith William Llŷn,

A volume in the hand of D. Silvan Evans containing 'awdlau' and 'cywyddau' by Wiliam Lleyn. The transcripts were made c. 1869 and appear to be taken from more than one source, e.g. a manuscript of Paul Panton, 1779, and a manuscript of W. H. Mounsey based on a manuscript in the hand of [Owen Jones] 'Owen Myfyr'. At the end are 'Tri o'r Chwe Englyn a ddywedir i Ddafydd ab Gwilym wneuthur ar ei Glaf-wely' transcribed by D. Silvan Evans from a manuscript in the hand of ?D[avid] Ellis [Cricieth]. Beginning at the end are three pages of notes on 'Matter'.

Gweithiau Iolo Goch ...,

A copy of Charles Ashton: Gweithiau Iolo Goch gyda nodiadau hanesyddol a beirniadol (Croesoswallt, 1896), with annotations, some if not all by J. H. Davies. Inside the volume is a notebook probably in the autograph of Charles Ashton containing a list of the poems of Iolo Goch, with particulars of sources, etc., a shorter list in the autograph of D. Silvan Evans with a reference to a manuscript (then at Llanwrin, now Cwrtmawr MS 325) in the autograph of Wiliam Henri [sic] Mounsey, 1859, and a letter, [19]22, from Henry Lewis, Swansea to Principal [J. H.] Davies.

Hymns

Transcripts by Owen Jones from Volume One of a collection of Latin hymns edited by H. A. Daniel and published at Halle, 1841-1846, and of notes by D. Silvan Evans and Lewis Edwards, published in Bye-gones, 1879, relating to the authorship of the Welsh hymn beginning 'Myfi yw'r Adgyfodiad mawr'.

Letter to A. J. Balfour,

A copy, [1897], of a letter from J. Rathbone to the Rt Hon. A. J. Balfour, MP, appealing for a Civil List grant to Canon Silvan Evans for his services to the Welsh language; and a letter referring to the above to J. H. Evans, Esq., 1897.

Letters

Autograph letters from a large number of people to Thomas and others, mainly relating to archaeology, Welsh history, literature and ecclesiastical affairs. The correspondents include B. Beedham, William Buckland, W. Boyd Dawkins, Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), J. P. Earwaker, D. Silvan Evans, R. W. Eyton, E. A. Freeman, Margaret Gatty, Reginald Heber, Felicia Hemans, H. Longueville Jones, John Keble, Sir Theodore Martin, Sydney (Lady) Morgan, Lord Mostyn, Samuel Rogers, W. F. Skene, Sir Arthur Sullivan, John Williams ('Ab Ithel'), Morris Williams ('Nicander') and Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau); an English poem entitled 'The Sixth Centenary of Dante's Beatrice 1890' by T. Tudno Jones; and a number of 'cut-out' autographs.

Letters

Letters, 1850-94, to Chancellor Thomas Briscoe, Holyhead, from William Briscoe (Nutfield), Daniel Silvan Evans, Evan Lewis (Llanllechid), Daniel Lewis Lloyd (bishop of Bangor), Thaddeus O'Maloney (Trinity College, Dublin), Bartholomew Price (Pembroke College, Oxford), John Price (Bangor), Llewellyn Thomas (Vice-Principal of Jesus Collie, Oxford), John Williams ('Ab Ithel'), and Morris Williams ('Nicander').

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