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Letters and circulars, 1886-1900, relating to 'Cymdeithas y Brythonwys' ('The Cambro-Briton Society'), London, most of them being addressed to John Burrell. Among the numerous correspondents are Judge Ivor Bowen [d. 1934], Morgan Davies, W[illiam] Cadwaladr Davies [1849-1905], Sir Owen M[organ] Edwards [1858-1920], T[homas] E[dward] Ellis [1859-1899], Sir E. Vincent Evans [1851-1934], Sir Ellis Jones Griffith [1860-1926], J. Elias Hughes, Sir Lewis Morris [1833-1907], Sir T. Isambard Owen, T. Woodward Owen, Sir John H. Puleston [1829-1908], Lewis W. Roberts, R[obert] D[avies] Roberts [1874-1940], T[homas] F[rancis] Roberts [1860-1919], Sir W. Bowen Rowlands, D[avid] A[lfred] Thomas (afterwards viscount Rhondda) [1856-1918], W[illiam] ['Glanffrwd'] Thomas [1843-1890] and Sir Thomas Marchant Williams [1845-1914]. There is also a group of letters dealing with inquiries from the Reverend John Owen, Mold and others relating to the number of Welsh people resident in London who were or were not associated with places of worship.

General correspondence, 1907-1908, of David Lloyd George including letters from Alfred Perceval Graves (1), Marie Corelli (1), William Abraham MP ('Mabon') (1), Wilfred Laurier (1), Lord Murray of Elibank (1), Lord Tweedmouth (1), Andrew Bonar Law (1), Ellis Jones Griffith MP (1), Andrew Carnegie (3), Ellis W. Davies MP (1), and Herbert J. Gladstone MP (1). There are also six letters from a young lady friend, Gladys Gardner, 1908.

The file comprises an album kept by O. M. Edwards while he was an undergraduate student at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. It contains a large number of autographs, poems and cuttings, various notes, and several letters addressed to Edwards. The correspondents include J. Mortimer Angus, Lewis Edwards, Y Bala, Thomas Charles Edwards (2), Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, John Edward Lloyd and John H. Puleston. There is also a stray letter written by O. M. Edwards.

Some letters discuss the work of the Montgomeryshire Liberal Association. Includes a letter from Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith MP.

Clive Easton; Martin Eaglestone; Dorothy Edmondes; William Rees Edmunds; Sue Essex; Kevin Etheridge; D. H. Owen Elliott; Sir George Elliot; Tom Ellis; Ellis Jones Griffith; Felicity Elphick; Marilyn Elson; Alun Emlyn Jones; John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones; Bob English; Glyn Erasmus; Islwyn Ffowc Elis; and Meg Elis.

Charles Edwards, Y Ffydd Ddiffuant ..., ed. by P. Williams (6th ed., Dolgellau, [1822]), with a few manuscript notes and with nine additional tipped-in pages containing a list of eighty-six Welsh books beginning with 'Salisbury's Testament', 1567, and a list of 'Books I have not got & which I should like to have' (with annotations by J[ohn] J[ones, 'Pyll Glan Conwy'], 1845-1857).

However William Maurice speeds where he is, Thomas Owen knows he is missed at home, for as the proverb says 'the eye of the mr fatteth the horse'. It would be a comfort to William Maurice's friends and neighbours if he spent his latter days among them in tranquillity of mind, out of contention and litigiousness. Does not doubt that William Maurice will embrace this course when due occasion is offered. Meanwhile let him ply his business courageously, unswayed by his enemies; let him spare no cost - 'crede mihi res est ingenissa dare'. William Maurice lately suffered a 'foyle' before the Council; it could not be otherwise since William Maurice's course was unwise and done in heat. William Maurice must pay £31.13.4 by 20 March next to falsify Justice Barker's report of his careless payments. [?Mores] and the other two fellows would have stood by it still if Thomas Owen and Richard Gruff' of Tregarneth had not been there - they had to stay for three days. William Maurice's solicitor Gruff' Jones played the part of an honest man, and would have done better under any other attorney than John Powell, 'who is like to goe down the weather'. Requests William Maurice at his leisure to talk with the Lord Mayor's son on Thomas Owen's behalf, for the Mayor will perhaps be busy, condoling with him for his wife's decease, which Thomas Owen hears he takes heavily. Let William Maurice ask them to deal well with Thomas Owen, reminding the Mayor how Mr Williams the goldsmith escaped Thomas Owen by the Mayor's failure to pass the assurance to Williams, which caused Thomas Owen much trouble and expense. If necessary, would try to come up to deal with them upon reasonable notice from William Maurice, especially if William Maurice finds them willing to give him fully what he should have had from Mr Williams as 'he', Thomas Owen's brother, his cousin John Wynne Bodvyan, now in London, and his cousin Humfrey Jones can say. Spoke to Mr Middleton about it last summer, when the latter was in the country. Because of Thomas Owen's 'arrearages' to the Mayor and others, cannot live at Plas Du long 'in any good fashion', because of his last 'lawying' with Mr Williams, of which he hopes the Mayor will have some feeling. Has no stock to furnish his grounds, and is driven to find all necessaries from his corn. Has lately been subject, like William Maurice, to 'sundry casualties' from 'combrous neigbours without any color of right or truth', which costs backward a man of mean estate.

Holograph letters and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc. The writers include Anne Vaughan, Corsygedol, to her brother Collonell Hugh Wynne, Bodscallan near Conway, [16]72 (a dispute with Mr. Jones of Wrexam over a right of way); Humphrey Jones to John Jones, 1673-1681 (4), and to [his step-daughter] Mary Jones, [16]86 (James Payne's portion, a debt due from Tho. Humphreys, and other money matters, a tenant for the ferry at Conway; the receipt of the writer's rent, the troubles of 'poor Dicke' [Richard Jones of Llanenddwyn]); J[onathan] Edwardes [archdeacon of Londonderry], Newtown Limavady, to his nephew [John] Jones, [16]79 (news of the writer's family); Charles Price, Machynlleth, to [John Jones] 1683 (Humffrey Jones's estate) (endorsed with a letter from Thomas Griffith, Llanciling, [16]83); Ann Major, London, to her aunt Mrs. Mary Jones, Brynnyfunon in Wrexham, 1684 (news of the writer's family); Jo. Jones to [his father-in-law Humphrey Jones], [16]84, and from Wrexham, etc., to his wife Mary Jones, Brin y ffynnon, etc., 1686-1690 (9) (an account of the possession of Penamnen, the likely ruin of the Taltreithin estate, personal, concerns in Mallwyd, Sir Richard Middleton's death, hangings in the Wrexham area, news of friends, money matters, the writer's term of office as sheriff [of Denbighshire], elections of 1690, Merioneth sessions); Roger Sontley, Wrexham, to Mr. 'Debity' Jones, Aldermanbury, London, 1689 (legal, news of actions in Ireland); Mary (Marry) Jones to her [step-]father Humphrey Jones, Aldermanbury, London, [16]86, and to [her husband John Jones], undated (2) (the recipient's concerns, losses caused by Tho. Jones, a visit to Sir W[illiam] W[illiams]); Wm. Williams to [ ] Jones, 1688 (arrears of rent) (fragment); F[ranics] Prichard, Jesus Coll[ege, Oxford], to John Jones, [16]88 (Oxford University news); Vrsula Mathewes, Blodwell, to her aunt Mary Jones, Cheapside, London [1689/90] (personal, the elections) (together with a postscript by the recipient's niece F[rances] Edwards); Thomas ?Speed, London, to John Jones, 169[ ] (the passing of Sir J. Fenwick's Act, Hugh Nanny's appointment as Vice-Admiral of North Wales, the negotiation of a treaty, a proclamation concerning hammered money) (mutilated); E. Wynne to John Jones, [16]92 (a transaction with the recipient's uncle) (endorsed with a note by John Jones); O[wen] P[richard] to John Jones, 1693 (money matters, alms money belonging to Beaumaris School, Dyffryn [Ardudwy] and Mallwyd rents, the employment of a miner); [Sir] Wi[lliam] Williams [1st bart.], Greys Inn, to Mr. Sergeant Rutland, [16]95 (the sealing of cousin Jones's deed); George Wooller, Chester, to John Jones, [16]95 (Mrs. Anne Jones's poor and low condition); Jo. Nicholas, Hook Norton, etc., to John Jones, 1696-1709 (2) (an invitation, family news); Richard Vaughan, Dolegwin, [16]99 (the writings belonging to Vchlawrcoed, etc., the recipient's rights to Talwrn); Charles King, Oxon., to John Jones, 1705 (the sale of the recipient's books, life in Oxford); U. Bridgeman, Blod[well], to her uncle John Jones, 1710 (legal); and John Williams, London, to John Jones, 1714/15 (lottery tickets). The miscellaneous papers include the certificate, 1663, by John Taylor, clerk of the parish of Woolwich, of the marriage of John Jones and Mary Paine on 9 February, 1662/3 (mutilated); rentals and memoranda, 1665-1696 and undated, relating to estates in Mallwyd, Montgomeryshire, and in Dyffryn [Ardudwy], Merioneth; the instrument, 17 April, 1696, of the appointment of John Jones, esquire, to be deputy lieutenant of the county of Merioneth (seal wanting); a sheet containing particulars of the location and measurements of parcels of land, 1701; lists of title-deeds, temp. Edward VI-1695 and undated, relating to land in Ardidwy, Merioneth; the will of John Jones of the township of Dudliston, co. Salop, esquire, 24 February, 1714/15 (cancelled 17 April, 1717); a poem, undated, by John Carless entitled 'To His Ever Honoured Patron Mr. Humphry Jones of Aldermanbury. And one of the Common Counsell of this Great Matropolis'; instructions, undated, to Owen Prichard concerning deeds and writings [of John Jones]; a list of manors in the lordshp of Bromfield and Yale, with an estimate of the profits of their courts, 11-14 Charles [II] (1659-1662); an account of the reprises due to the purchasers of Bromfield and Yale [after 1653]; and a list, undated, of the hundreds, parishes, and parts of parishes in the lordship of Englefeild.

The last of seven volumes of about six hundred letters mainly addressed to Thomas Gee and relating to a variety of subjects particularly in the fields of education, temperance reform, religious movements, and political questions. -- The principal correspondents are Mary Jones, Denbigh, 1837; Thomas Gwynn Jones, 1911-13; Morgan Lloyd, 1884; Sir G. Osborne Morgan, 1897; William Morris, 1837; Sir J. H. Puleston, 1882; Henry Rees, 1866; William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), 1866; Lord Rendel, 1909; J. Bryn Roberts, 1898; G. W. Taylor, 1887-9; N. Walters, Mayfair, 1834; R. G. White, Dublin, 1837; Henry Williams, 1837; and J. Carvell Williams, 1869-72.

The fourth of seven volumes of about six hundred letters mainly addressed to Thomas Gee and relating to a variety of subjects particularly in the fields of education, temperance reform, religious movements, and political questions. -- The principal correspondents are W. Rathbone, 1883-8; William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), 1866; Andrew Reid, 1890; Stuart Rendel, afterwards Baron Rendel, 1884-94; John Rhys, 1887; Henry Richard, 1865-86; Evan M. Richards, 1869-74; John Roberts, Liverpool and Abergele, 1869-72; J. Bryn Roberts, 1885; J. Herbert Roberts, 1891-8; H. Sandwith, 1865-77; A. Simner, 1883-9; and Thomas Stephens, Merthyr, 1887.

Twenty-nine letters, April-May 1896, discussing the proposed establishment of a Welsh (or Cymric) Institute as a meeting place for the Welsh in London. The letters are addressed to T. J. Evans as editor of the London Kelt (Celt Llundain), in which some were subsequently published.
The correspondents (listed on f. 59) include A. C. Humphreys-Owen (ff. 26-27), J. E. Morris (ff. 32-33), Sir Lewis Morris (ff. 34-35), Isambard Owen (ff. 36-37), J. Bryn Roberts (ff. 48-49), J. Herbert Roberts (f. 50), Sir John Williams (f. 55), W. Llewelyn Williams (ff. 56-58) and other prominent London Welshmen and Welsh MPs.

Includes letters from P. M. C. Kermode (3), Alexander MacBain, Frederic Seebohm (3), J. E. Rogers (2), J. H. Davies, John Young Evans (3), John Hobson Matthews, William C. Borlase (3), J. Fisher (3, enclosing 3 letters from Watcyn Wyn), Howel Walters, Betha Hills-Johnes (3), D. Long Price (2), Thomas Davies (2), Alan Stepney-Gulston, Henry Austin Bruce, G. O. Morgan (2), James R. Thursfield, John Owen (4), D. B. Monro, Emilia F. S. Dilke, E. B. Cowell, Isaac Foulkes ('Llyfrbryf'), E. K. Jones (2), G. Hartwell Jones, Augusta Hall (dictated), W. P. Ker, J. Hugh Edwards, Francis J. Jayne (3), Alfred G. Edwards (4), Charles Plummer, John Jones ('Ivon'), Thomas Powel, Watkin Williams ('Watcyn Wyn') (3), Thomas Levi, John Owen (3), W. A. Craigie (3), W. R. Morfill (2), J. W. Mackail, J. Romilly Allen (3, enclosing a letter from Edward Owen), Malcolm MacFarlane, George Kenyon, Henry Owen (2), J. Herbert Lewis, Samuel Smith, J. Lloyd Morgan, W. Rathbone, J. Herbert Roberts, A. C. Humphreys-Owen, D. A. Thomas, J. Bryn Roberts, D. R. Thomas, Alexander Hugh Bruce, T. K. Cheyne, John Lloyd Warden Page, D. Rhys Jones (3), Edward Laws (4), Arthur J. Evans, William Jones (2), H. W. Williams (6), G. Bowen Jones (2), H. Morse Stephens, Charles Roeder (2), A. W. Moore, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke), Edward Stanley (3), W. Cadwaladr Davies, H. R. Reichel (2), Frank Harris, Llewellyn Thomas, John Beddoe, Theodor Mommsen (2), Rudolf Thurneysen, A. H. D. Acland, Elias Owen (2), Hugh Williams (2), Ivor James, J. Viriamu Jones, Llywarch Reynolds, and Isaac Taylor.

Understands that William Maurice has written to Hugh Davies requiring 30s. of Thomas Bodvell, which William Maurice alleges Thomas Bodvell passed his word to him for one John ap William ap Hugh, late constable of Dinllaen, which William Maurice utterly mistakes. It is true that Thomas Bodvell wrote to William Maurice entreating him to forbear with John ap William ap Hugh for as much of the mise as was unpaid in the constable's hands as long as possible, because he knew the constable to be out of money at the time. Similarly William Maurice had written to Thomas Bodvell on behalf of William Gruffith ap Rees of Llecheiddior, to bear with him for William Maurice's sake, which Thomas Bodvell did and is as yet unpaid. Procured the constable to pay 40s. because Thomas Bodvell had written to William Maurice on his behalf. If there is any more due to William Maurice remaining in the constable's hands the mare is sufficient of him to make satisfaction at William Maurice's demands.

Includes letters from D. Rhys Jones, J. Viriamu Jones, Henry Owen, W. A. Craigie (6), John Lloyd Warden Page (3), A. S. Green (enclosing a letter from Lord Dillon), Augusta Herbert, Llewellyn N. V. Lloyd-Mostyn (4), J. Romilly Allen (3), E. W. B. Nicholson (6), Rudolf Thurneysen, A. M. Fairbairn, Alfred G. Edwards (4), John R. Mowbray (9), John Owen (9), Francis J. Jayne (4), William Jones (2), Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (7), Edward B. Tylor, John T. D. Llewelyn, G. O. Morgan (3), A. C. Humphreys-Owen (3), William N. Bruce, W. Tudor Howell, J. Herbert Lewis, William Abraham ('Mabon'), J. Bryn Roberts, D. Brynmor Jones (2), Edward Jenkins, Frederick York Powell, Daniel Rees (2), Betha Hills-Johnes, Watkin Williams ('Watcyn Wyn'), H. W. Williams (5), James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, E. Sidney Hartland (2), Magnus Maclean (2), Malcolm Macfarlane, A. G. Boscawen (2), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Viscount Cranborne), John Hobson Matthews, Owen Owen, J. H. Rose, F. Victor Dickins, Frederick T. Elworthy (2), Charles Roeder (4), Lewis Morris, H. Augusta Mostyn, Edward Laws, S. A. D'Arcy, P. M. C. Kermode, John Griffiths, Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant'), Eduard Wölfflin, Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (3), R. Williams, John Williams, and C. H. Firth.

A printed copy, June 2015, of ‘Of myth and man: essaying the space-between in geomythological theory’, an unpublished study by Erin Kavanagh (UWTSD Masters dissertation) with special reference to the relationship between aspects of the Second Branch of the Mabinogi [Branwen uerch Lyr] and Cardigan Bay in the context of geomythology, science and archaeology.

Llythyrau, [1936]-[1968]. Ymhlith y gohebwyr mae Timothy Lewis (2), [D.] Myrddin Lloyd (3), D. Tecwyn Lloyd (6), Bob Lloyd ('Llwyd o'r Bryn') (6) [cyhoeddwyd llythyrau Bob Lloyd yn 1966 mewn cyfrol Diddordebau Llwyd o'r Bryn a olygwyd gan Trebor Lloyd Evans], a T. Alwyn Lloyd (1).

Understands that William Moris sent an 'atagement' [attachement] upon Henry Johnes and some of his tenants in Cardiganshire to the sheriff. Desires him to stay the atagement till Henry Johnes comes to speak with him which will be very shortly after the holidays, if he does not meet with him in London next term. At their meeting, will content William Moris for what shall be found due. Entreats William Moris's stay till then and he will find Henry Johnes very [...] to content him. His wife is ill and has kept her bed ever since a little after Christmas.

Araith Llwyd o'r Bryn, 'Cinio mawr Caerdydd,' a draddodwyd mewn cinio a gynhaliwyd i ddathlu fod gwartheg Cymru yn glir o'r diciâu. Mae araith Llwyd o'r Bryn yn ei law ei hun, ynghyd â chopi teipiedig a chyfieithiad, 'The cattle of Wales are free of tuberculosis'.

Received William Maurice's letter 'yesternight'; this morning has come to Bangor on business of his own and his cousin Brynkyr, and will spend the day there. On Friday or Saturday a commission is to be executed concerning William Jones, and at the beginning of next week sets out for London. Hopes therefore that William Maurice will not blame him for not coming to Eifionydd. Had time permitted, would have been very willing to end all suits between William Maurice and William Jones's cousin; knows it does not please William Maurice to be in suit, and neither is it to the ease and profit of William Jones's cousin. Will endeavour to end things between them as soon as possible.

William Maurice having 'appointed the field and made the challenge', will now not meet. In the 'parle' at Henry Rowlands's house, with Mr Jones and the other side, William Maurice was the first to provoke them to a compromise by sergeants and Henry Rowlands was pleased that William Maurice made that flourish while he limited the judgement and final order to Sir Edward Cooke as umpire. But at Caernarvon without Henry Rowlands's privity William Maurice subscribed to three sergeants in which he was overweighed by Mr Jones, who is better acquainted with sergeants; William Maurice was the more overseen since he did it without reference to Henry Rowlands. Is loth to drive the hatred to himself as a peace breaker in William Maurice's conformity. Both sides will never agree on the sergeants and the compromise will fall of itself. Touching the main cause, Mr Jones, though Henry Rowlands finds him inclined to the other side, makes it doubtful and does not brag at all of the issue, for the church is likely to be favoured in so unconscionable a matter. But Mr Lloyd, Henry Rowlands & William Maurice's friend by his cousin Brynkir's relation, makes it a clear case for 'him', which requires no great charge in law, in his belief that Mr Jones speaks for the other side out of favour and inclination to discourage Henry Rowlands and William Maurice more than out of judgment in law. The weakness of Henry Rowlands and William Maurice is that 'they' have full purses on a dead man's charge to follow the business whereas Henry Rowlands and William Maurice are poor and weak which 'they' observe well enough, and it makes 'them' confident. But William Maurice delivered great words before 'them' in Henry Rowlands's presence; it pleased Henry Rowlands that their heavy purses should not so easily carry the matter, and that William Maurice would spend himself therein before being wronged or overweighed. Of this Henry Rowlands is witness and does not doubt that William Maurice will do the same. William Maurice said he would be in London next term to manage the business himself; otherwise it was a great oversight to refer it to three sergeants and two counsellors. The journey in Henry Rowlands's opinion would be well worthwhile. For his part, Henry Rowlands is one and the same. If William Maurice sticks to 'him' and assists 'him' auxilio et consilio, will not forsake 'him'. But for Henry Rowlands to bestow the living and bear the charge of the suit is more than William Maurice thought fit. Therefore writes to William Maurice, in Henry Rowlands's cousin Brynkir's discouragement, to know his resolution, so that otherwise Henry Rowlands may ease 'him' and rid himself of the business with as much credit as he can. Let William Maurice look what he thinks good; Henry Rowlands is indifferent and inclinable, though it would have been more to their credit had it never been talked of. But it is but a money matter and William Maurice has spent money worse and more idly many times. Henry Rowlands wishes that William Maurice will be in London next term if required. Postscript: William Maurice forgot to send the tenth of Llanbeblig, namely 20s.4. William Jones goes to London on Thursday. Henry Rowlands is surprised that William Maurice did not write to Henry Rowlands what he requires of him; hopes William Maurice will now do so.