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His father says that if the addressee does not pay through fair means he will make him pay through foul means. Inside are quotations from the New Testament endorsed 'Ar Waed Crist gan Sion Thomas'.

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to J. B. Bruce, esq., Dyffrin, Aberdare. Asking him to settle with Mr Traherne when the meeting shall take place - the sooner they meet the better. The writer's repeated attempts to bring the addressee and Mr Snow here have been vain - an anecdote about Francis the late Emperor of Austria. He thinks if a subscription were set on foot for Gwladwr's plan, and limited to ten shillings, the amount would be considerable. When the addressee comes here he will show him a most interesting pamphlet published by the Edinburgh Royal Society: 'it is Williams's work, where he shews clearly that the language of Italy was cymraeg, before Rome was a village.'.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe lands, Merthyr. Their prospects with regard to a subscription for printing Welsh MSS are brightening - a society should be formed without delay and a prospectus published. The addressee should set about making a catalogue of all he has - urging him to begin forthwith for his own satisfaction and to try to get through it by Christmas. Discusses preparing materials for the publication of the 15 poems.

Sending the warrant for the discharge of the Blessing, and asking for the corn accounts and the culm entries. On the dorse in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg are 6 lines of religious verse in Welsh.

Two stanzas and a correction for insertion in the Almanac (Printed in Llên Cymru, iii, 119).

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe Land, Merthyr. Requesting him to ask the Editor of the Silurian to insert this (detached). Can they have a few lines from the addressee's energetic pen inserted in the Guardian next Saturday on the same subject - what to say. Asking him not to let his (WW's) name transpire - there is not a moment to be lost. 'Rees of Llandovery is to write in the Carmarthen papers.'.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Asking him to use his influence with the Silurian to publish the foregoing, if possible as a paragraph - the addressee has seen by the London papers that a deputation from Liverpool has waited on Lord Melbourne on behalf of the Archdeacon, and the writer hears another in London is preparing to do so. He had a letter from the Archdeacon this morning - in his answer he told him who Cyngar is. Poets' wishes and the writer's own.

Mr Worrall having the gout in his hand orders him to acknowledge the receipt of the addressee's letter and to say that instructions are sent by this post to Mr Lewis Attorney of Cardiff. On the same sheet Iolo Morganwg has written what he terms 'Pendemonium Bulletin', announcing the arrival of William Pitt. 'Given at our Royal Pallace of Pendemonium ... By order of his Infernal Majesty, Belzebub'.

As Mr Evans did not come to these parts when the writer was expecting him he has taken the opportunity of sending word by Mr Edward Williams, who happened to call on the way to Anglesey, about the state of health of the addressee's wife.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Acknowledging the addressee's kind letter and the printed programme. His object in again troubling him is occasioned by a passage in the addressee's letter which speaks of an intention of exposing Cawrdaf, and real regard towards him (TW) dictates it. 'Ab Iolo's name must be linked with his native county and the country of Iolo Morgannwg ...'. 'No one as yet who has written on Welsh subjects has ever referred to their Brethren on the continent.' Tegid rejoices to hear of the addressee's intention to write - suggesting that the addressee should write to Tegid a week before starting for London.

Thanking him for the particulars about the paring-plough. He knows no person he can recommend as bailiff. 'It would have given me sincere Pleasure in assisting Miss Johnes in so favourite a Pursuit; but in this Neighbourhood eating Fruit are scarce'. The outlines of a plan for supplying the writer's native county with orchards. Endorsed by Iolo Morganwg: 'On the Culture of Apples in Cardiganshire'.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. If May 29 will suit the convenience of the members of the Cymreigyddion Society he will do himself the honour of waiting on them. Is convinced assistance has been given in the notes to the Mabinogion; he has the greatest reliance on what the addressee says as to the dialect being Silurian - his own humble opinion as to those productions. The addressee's treasures seem inexhaustible - he mentions in his letter four poems (specified) which the writer never saw or heard of. Reference to the addressee's promise of his company at Christmas.

He had nothing very particular to communicate to her father though he felt a desire to see him to tell him something (about Ynis gay meeting-house) and to know of his progress in translating Belsham's work. He intends to be at Cowbridge this day fortnight and would be glad to meet her father should he be at home. On the dorse in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg towards the end of his life are some introductory remarks to a small book to be called Awenyddion Morganwg a Gwent.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Commending the addressee's essay and his style in Welsh. Criticism of the North Wales style. A note for translation into Gwenthwyssaeg. Mention of Blaengwrach chapel.

He would have answered the addressee's letter of April 23 before now had he not expected the pleasure of seeing EW at Neath in about a fortnight after it was written. Was truly sorry to hear that the addressee had been so long afflicted with illness. The addressee's Psalms - as much as he has read of them he thinks very good and most heartily wishes to see them published. The best mode of publishing them. Mr Lloyd of Kilybebyll and several other gentlemen earnestly wish (that) the addressee, with the assistance of his son, would translate and publish by subscription Young's Farmer's Calendar.

Edward S. Byam, 1 Montpellier Spa Buildings, Cheltenham, to Talliesin Williams, esq., Merthyr Tidvil. Requesting his acceptance of a pedigree pertaining to the family to which the writer belongs. A query. Enclosure.

His deplorable condition owing to his wife's intrigues against him.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Heraldry. The following are the poems addressed to this family which the writer has. Asking whether he is not glad that he has taken the bull by the horns and at last brought his chaos of papers into some order? He has sent to know if there are any MSS at Eagle's bush. Various queries.

He has reason to think that his applications in favour of their Old Bard have been considered by some as acting a decided political part. He therefore thought it prudent to refrain from interesting himself in the manner he could have wished.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Mr B. Pryce has gone to the Isle of Wight. Replying to the addressee's questions (concerning placenames, etc.). Mr T. Jenkins of Dowlais was here today - he showed the writer his essay on the Castles. What WW thinks is the reason why Iestyn's sons by his first wife went to Caerleon. The addressee says Morlais Castle was built by Einon - this surprises him.