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'Cywydd Marwnad y parchedig Mr. Evan Llwyd or Fron'; 'cerddi' and 'englynion' by Ellis ap Ellis, Arthur Jones, Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant'), Huw Morus, John Prichard Prys, and John Davies ('Sion Dafydd Las'); poems submitted for competition at a Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant eisteddfod; triads; a list of subscriptions 'to alleviate the present distressed Situation of the Widow and Five Children of the late John Humphreys Parry ...'; and notes and memoranda by Walter Davies and D. Silvan Evans.

Fifty-five holograph and autograph letters and postcards (surnames P-W), 1879-1938, addressed to the Rev. C. Tawelfryn Thomas. Frequent references to the Rev. Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) in the correspondence relate mostly to Thomas's biography, Cofiant Darluniadol Mewn Rhyddiaeth a Chân i'r Diweddar Barch. Evan Jones... (Dolgellau, 1909).
The correspondents are [the Rev.] B[enjamin] Phillips, Temple Bar, Talsarn, [18]98 (information re the Rev. M[oses] Rees [1796-1856, Congregational minister]); Tho[ma]s Price, Ffaldybrenin, Llandeilo, 1886 (the MSS. of Mr. Hughes, Groeswen); [the Rev. Evan Rees] (Dyfed), Cardiff, 1881-[19]15 (3) (a preaching engagement, an enquiry re verses by [the Rev. William Williams] 'yr hen Bantycelyn', the death of [William Williams] (Ap Caledfryn) in 1915); [the Rev. Jonathan] Machreth [Rees], Penygroes and London, 1889-1903 (3) (personal, a meeting at Rhyl ? relating to the Independent College, Bala (1889), preaching engagements, an offer to lecture at Y Groeswen, mention of ? ministerial acquaintances); [Sarah Jane Rees] (Cranogwen), Llangranog, [19]08 (personal); [the Rev.] Thomas Rees, Abertawy, 1882 (statistics of membership of [Congregational] churches in Wales); [Principal] T[homas] Rees, Bala-Bangor Independent College, Bangor, 1912-15 (2) (collections for the college); [the Rev.] J. Alun Roberts, Carnarvon and Trefriw, 1882 (4) (preaching engagements); J[oh]n H. Roberts, Casnewydd ar Wysg, [19]07 (a lecture by recipient); [the Rev.] Ll[oyd] B[ryniog] Roberts, Caernarfon, 1888 (personal, news of acquaintances); [the Rev. Richard] Gwylfa [Roberts], Porthdinorwic, 1896 (personal, preaching engagements); Principal T[homas] F[rancis] Roberts, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1906-07 (2) (personal); [Robert David Rowland] (Anthropos), Caernarfon, 1880 (personal); [the Rev.] E[dward] Stephen [Tanymarian], [18]82-4 (3) (preaching engagements, enclosing an englyn, comments on an unspecified book, the publication of sermons, etc.); Alfred Thomas, London, 1908 (2) (a search for copies of the periodicals The Standard of Freedom and The Pathway, an article or chapter (in English) the writer was contributing to recipient's proposed biography of Ieuan Gwynedd); Alfred Thomas [MP for East Glamorganshire, aft. baron Pontypridd], London, 1901 (wishing recipient luck in a School Board election, recipient's aid to the writer in his first parliamentary election); [Sir] D[aniel] Lleufer Thomas, Whitchurch and Swansea, 1932-5 (2) (personal, material given by recipient to the [National] Library [of Wales], suggestions re more such material); Dewi Thomas, Torquay, [19]32 (personal, forwarding a copy of [James] Rendel Harris, The Guiding Hand of God); [Edward Thomas] (Cochfarf), [undated] (extracts from George Eyre Evans, Cardiganshire… its Antiquities… [(Aberystwyth, 1903)] relating to Zoar Congregational Church, Llanbadarn, and [the Rev.] Azariah Shadrach [1774-1844, Congregational minister]); [the Rev.] John Thomas, Merthyr, 1890 (preaching engagements); [the Rev.] J[ohn] Evelyn Thomas, Bournemouth, [190]9 (personal, recipient's book on Ieuan Gwynedd, reference to 'the Disestab[lishment] question'); Tho[ma]s Thomas, Pontypridd, 1879 (3) (preparations for ordaining recipient as minister [of Groes Wen and associated Congregational Churches], news of the churches, comments on the controversy relating to the Independent College, Bala); Thomas Thomas [?the same as in the preceding letters], Trecynon, 1904-05 (3) (personal, the religious revival in Trecynon, a proposed visit to Groes Wen by revivalists from Trecynon); D. J. Williams, County School, Bethesda, [19]38 (the writer's attempt to compile a list of former students of Bala-Bangor [Independent College]); [Eliseus Williams] (Eifion Wyn), Porthmadog, [18]97-[19]08 and [undated] (7) (personal, preaching engagements, enclosing a draft of six stanzas in memory of Ieuan [Gwynedd]); [the Rev.] J[ohn] J[ames] Williams, Pentre, [undated] (enclosing englynion [relating to Ieuan Gwynedd]); [the Rev. John Owen Williams] (Pedrog), Liverpool, 1894 (inclination not to accept a call to Tabernacle [Congregational] Church, Ynysybwl); [the Rev. Rowland Williams] (Hwfa Môn), Bryn Hwfa, 1885 (a ?lecturing engagement at Y Groeswen); [the Rev. Watkin Hezekiah Williams] (Watcyn Wyn), Ammanford, 1896-1904 (2) (personal, a preaching engagement, enclosing englynion to the graveyard at Groes Wen (1896), and four stanzas (missing) composed in seeing a certain portrait of Ieuan Gwynedd); W[illiam] Williams, Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council, Cardiff, 1908 (information relating to Ieuan Gwynedd); and J. Wilson [London], 1893 (Joseph Chamberlain's attitude to the [Welsh Church] Suspensory Bill).

Miscellaneous verse items in Welsh and English including [?holograph] copies of englynion and a cywydd by Ioan Anwyl, Pontypridd, two free-metre stanzas entitled 'Yr Ysgol Newydd a'r Castell Hen' [?Caerffili] by C. Tawelfryn Thomas, and 'Englynion i Ardalydd Môn' by [?William Williams (Gwilym Caledfryn), Dinbych]; a typescript copy of englynion entitled 'Anerch awen yn [oed]fa anrhegu y Parch. Tawelfryn Thomas ar ei ymddiswyddiad o fod yn weinidog Eglwys y Groeswen', [1926]; and a copy of the words of an English song entitled 'My Little Welsh Home', the words and music of which had been written by W. S. Gwynn Williams.

Miscellaneous prose and verse submitted for publication in The Rhyl Advertiser and other papers, adjudications, etc., the contributors including Meredith J. Hughes, Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'), John Williams ('Glanmor'), Richard Williams, (Celynog, Newtown), Morris Williams ('Nicander'), Samuel Roberts ('S.R.'), etc.

Commonplace book, 1876-1893, of the Rev. Dr William Hopkyn Rees, a missionary in the North China, LMS, mission field, containing Welsh and English verse; sermon and other notes; quotations and maxims; and personal memoranda.

Moore's Vox Stellarum; or ... Almanack ... for the year 1818 with manuscript entries by Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) of preaching and other ministerial engagements, January 1818-January 1819, maxims and other extracts from printed sources, household accounts, and other memoranda. Also included are epitaphs and other verse by Thomas Evans (ff. 30 verso, 47 verso).

Ten letters, 1877-1884, in English and Welsh, to David Edwards, farmer, of Gilfach Glyd, Ynysybwl, Glamorgan, from Thomas Thomas (Twm Ddwywaith), farmer, of Cefn Pennar Ycha, Aberdare, dealing with personal matters and including englynion, tribannau and other poetry in Welsh, mostly by Thomas (ff. 3-20); together with one letter to Edwards from [Henry Austin Bruce], Lord Aberdare, 11 August 1877, thanking him for translating an englyn into English (f. 1).
Also included are verses in English in an unidentified hand (f. 21), and a covering letter, 4 May 1953, from the donor (f. ii recto-verso).

Miscellanea, including incomplete adjudications by Owen Jones on essays on the antiquities of the vale of Conway ('Henafiaethau Dyffryn Conway'), the foundation of Maenan Abbey ('Sefydliad Mynachlog Maenan'), etc.; the Elementary Certificate of the Tonic Sol-fa College awarded to William Rowland Williams, 1889 (the signatures include that of David Jenkins, examiner); a typescript copy of a poem in Welsh on the secession of Edward Stephen ('Tanymarian') to the Tory Party in 1874, with an accompanying note by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, to the effect that the verses were printed on the back of a postcard addressed to W. J. Parry, Bethesda, in 1877; mounted cuttings from The North Wales Chronicle, 19 October, 1934, of a report by R. D. Roberts on 'Two Gold Half Nobles of Richard II ... found in Caernarvonshire' [the one at Llanfairfechan and the other at Gerlan, Bethesda], together with manuscript notes by the author; and a typescript copy of verses by A. S. Hamilton, Union Bay, British Columbia, entitled 'Little Dyvie' [i.e. David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.], printed in a Canadian newspaper during the Great War (1914-1918).

'Carolau', 'cerddi', etc., most of them composed and written c. 1844-1878 by Lewis Robart ('Llywelun Ddu Myirion'), who describes himself in 1844 as 'Gwasneuthudd yn y Gorllwyn'.

Transcripts by Ellis Pierce of poems by Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant'): 'Cân ar ddyfodiad y Brenhin George y Trydydd i'w 50 mlynedd o deyrnasiad'; 'Cân mewn dull o gyngor i feibion a merched ...'; 'Cerdd o gynghor i ferched ifaingc ..'; 'Cerdd yn erbyn godineb'; 'Hanes yr ymgyfarfod a fu rhwng y balch a'r diog'; 'Cerdd o gwynfaniad merch ...'; 'Cerdd o hanes fel y digwyddodd i'r Prydydd gael lletty (neu lodging) ddrwg ymhentre Helygain ...'; 'Cerdd mewn perthynas i'r Aur byrion ...'; 'Cerdd cyffes Owen Roberts ...'; 'Cerdd Trugaredd a Barn ...'; 'Cerdd Hanes un Ambros Guinet ...'; 'Cerdd o fflangell ysgorpionog i falchder y merched a'r meibion ...'; 'Cerdd Ymddiddan rhwng gwraig yr Hwsmon a gwraig y Shopwr ...'; 'Cân i ddeisyf ar J. R. o Hersedd ymofyn am lwyth glo i T. E., Nant ...'; 'Cân o ddiolchgarwch i Esq. Ellis o'r Cornist ... am lwyth glo ...'; 'Cerdd o anerchiad i Mr. Evan James, apothecary ...'; 'Cerdd Dduwiol ...'; 'Cerdd yn achos Tid Goed a ddyged ...'; 'Cerdd o achos Cig a gafwyd wedi ei guddio ...' by Jonathan Hughes; 'Cerdd i ateb y Gerdd o'r blaen ...'; 'Cerdd ar ddull tosturus gwynfan Siopwr ..' by John Thomas, Pentrefoelas; 'Cerdd i ateb y Siopwr ...'; and 'Cân Newydd'; and an incomplete transcript of Y Parchedig Gecryn Penchwiban neu Ddrych y Bugail Drwg (Caernarfon, 1835).

A notebook belonging to James Hughes (Iago Trichrug), Calvinistic Methodist preacher, scriptural commentator and poet, containing notes on infant baptism, poetry by Iago Trichrug, Peter Jones (Pedr Fardd) and Daniel Jones, Rhiwabon, etc.

Y mae'r casgliad yn cynnwys: llythyrau, 1909-1938, at 'Ioan Brothen', a llythyrau, 1950-1974, at Enid Jones; dyddiaduron Ioan Brothen, 1894, 1931-1940; llyfrau nodiadau a llyfrau lloffion, 1888-1940, yn cynnwys cerddi, englynion, penillion, torion o'r wasg, arysgrifau cerrig beddau; papurau amrywiol, 1823-1996; ac eitemau printiedig, 1922-1926. = The collection comprises: letters, 1909-1938, to 'Ioan Brothen, and letters, 1950-1974, to Enid Jones; diaries of Ioan Brothen, 1894, 1931-1940; notebooks and scrapbooks, 1888-1940, containing poems, englynion, verses, press cuttings, gravestone inscriptions; miscellaneous papers, 1823-1996; and printed items, 1922-1926.

A collection of poems composed or translated by John Davies, 1822-1867, with an index by John Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro').

A volume, 1911, containing press cuttings and transcripts from printed sources, by O. Llew Owain, of nineteenth-century Welsh ballads and other popular verse.

A collection of poems, 'pryddestau', 'englynion' and other forms by John Lewis, 1860-1864. Many of the poems were successfully entered for competition at local 'eisteddfodau', e.g. at Bridgend, Brecon, Blaenpennal, Llangwyryfon, Tredegar, Aberystwyth ('Rheilffordd Glannau Cymru', 1864), Ebbw Vale, Aberaeron, Talybont, Abermeurig, Llanilar, Rhymney and Cilcennin.

The apprenticeship indenture of Thomas Gee (senior) to William Collister Jones and Thomas Crane, printers, Chester, 14 Jan. 1796; a copy of a letter from Abel Simner to John Cartwright, 1837, concerning Thomas Gee's adoption as a Calvinistic Methodist preacher; a copy-book containing a list of visitors at Fron Cottage, and of presents received, October 1842; a note of hand by leading Methodists at Denbigh for their contribution towards building a British School, 1849; a Welsh poem beginning 'Oes neb a ystyr wrth fy nghwyn'; a note relating to a canvass for James Maurice at Denbigh, 1857; a resolution of thanks by Flintshire Monthly Meeting to Thomas Gee for his evidence before the Parliamentary Education Committee, 1867; letters relating to elections in Brecknockshire and Denbighshire, [?1868]; a list of employees of Thomas Gee; addresses by the Abergele district of Sunday Schools to Thomas Gee, 1873 and 1891; circulars relating to the Liberation Society, 1883-1887; circulars and papers relating to the Welsh National Testimonial to Thomas Gee, 1896-1897; notes of an address by Thomas Gee on the Sunday School; a fragment of an autobiography containing an account of an apparition, 1757; lists of persons who were present at the funeral of Thomas Gee; reminiscences of Thomas Gee; press cuttings; and fragments of correspondence.

A collection of 'englynion', 'cywyddau', carols, hymns and other poems by Lewis William, Liverpool, 1810-1816. The collection includes items by Evan James ('Ieuan ab Iago'), 1781, John Rees, Hugh Hughes ['Huw ap Huw' or 'Y Bardd Coch o Fôn'], Robert Lewis, 1782, 'Roberts, Ty du', D. Saunders and Lewis Edwards, Quaker, and a large number of hymns taken from printed and oral sources.

A transcript by John Dan[ie]l Jones, Hawen Hall, Rhydlewis, from Y Diwygiwr, January, 1836, of 'Cofiant y diweddar Mr. John Lloyd Morgan: Myfyriwr Yngholeg Homerton, Llundain' by [the Reverend] John] Lloyd, [Congregational] minister at Henllan [Amgoed] and in memoriam verses by 'Glantowy' [John Thomas, printer, Llanelly]; notes of sermons heard by D. M[organ] Lewis at Cambridge, 1873; an account book of contributions to the Relief Fund Association [c. 1874]; a press cutting containing an account of a Band of Hope tea and procession at Felindre, Pembrokeshire, 1882, together with a manuscript copy of verses composed for the occasion in praise of the Reverend Evan Lewis, minister of Brynberian and Felindre Congregational Churches; notes of lectures on 'Pwyll Prince of Dyfed' ('Mabinogion Class') by Mr. (aft. Professor Sir) J[ohn] Morris Jones [at University College of North Wales, Bangor], 1891; an address in a debate on 'Whether the discovery of the mariners compass, or the invention of printing has been most conducive to the welfare of society'; an address on the Government of the Christian Church; a printed card bearing 'Lines written in a lady's album by Rev. Robert Moffat, D.D.', with the author's signature; copious extracts by D. Morgan Lewis from miscellaneous printed sources; etc.

Draft poems by Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn').

Draft poems by Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn').