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Asking him to be a subscriber for a copy or two of [Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain]. If he could acquire a little by this publication he might possibly be enabled to open a little [?shop] in the bookselling and stationery way at Cowbridge where it is much wanted. Draft.

W. Williams to [Taliesin Williams]. Tomorrow the addressee will receive the three MSS which he lent the writer. Is extremely sorry to hear of his continued illness - advice. The name Lleision. Verses to the addressee and his lumbago.

He has presumed to send a statement of his present circumstances. Begging him not to mention this application to anyone in this county or in Wales. He hopes that the addressee will not long hence be returned MP for Glamorgan, in which case he would not wish that anything should be known that might by any means be construed into a bribe. He has enclosed a prospectus of a work which he has had in hand for many years. The persons through whom permission was obtained for him to dedicate Poems Lyric and Pastoral to his present Majesty, then Prince of Wales. These volumes have now been 20 years out of print but he cannot publish a second edition without going to London and for this he is not possessed of the means. Draft.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr. Is exceedingly sorry to hear that he has been indisposed. An invitation.

Thanking him for giving his name as an annual subscriber of half a guinea. (Notes and a sketch of a house on the dorse).

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Is ashamed to say there is not one of the addressee's interesting questions that he is able to answer. Place-names, old customs, etc. He has written all he knows about the De Avens and will begin with Einon, but he wants Yorke's tribes and Roberts's Mona Antiqua. Does the addressee think he can come here before sending his essay in to the judge?

Being last May in London he happened to see at the house of a friend two or three of the Rev. E. Davies's letters which the addressee has printed. In them he saw something that not a little surprised him. Still he had seen only a few of his letters - his eager wish to see the whole of them. How he applied to the addressee and was refused an answer - the cause of all this. The writer's political and religious views. He has however at last seen all or most of the letters and now through the medium of the press conveys to Mr Davies, the addressee, and the public at large his observations on them. The letter is written on a sheet containing a bill from L. Llewelyn to Mr Williams for various commodities to the value of £2.15.7 bought in 1796-1798. ?Draft.

W[illiam] W[illiams] to [?Taliesin Williams]. Circumstances have prevented his attending the meeting, where he intended to thank the addressee for the loan of the Gododin. The addressee might do considerable good to the cause if at Abergavenny he would make half as good a speech as he did formerly at Merthyr, and among other topics introduce remarks of the following tendency. Asking him not to mention or even allude to the name of the writer or anyone. His brother's return from Scotland.

The offer the writer made Mr Harding of the loan of all his MSS to Edward Davies. Mr Theophilus Jones plainly told him (EW) that his intend(ed) civility was ill-timed and might have been prejudicial to Ed. Reference to 'the old net ecclesiastic for catching livings, and preferments', etc. (See also letter No. 393, dorse). Draft. Incomplete.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe lands, Merthyr. He has just learnt that the Llandaff subject is to be abandoned and another substituted ('The influence of Welsh traditions &c. on German literature'). An occasion has presented itself for a declaration of his (WW's) sentiments on the last (?) Cymreigyddion. Two questions about writing the life of Iestyn and notices of the descendants of Cradock and Rhys. Asking him to send Cardiff Castle when he has time.

J. L. Knight Bruce to Sir Henry Ellis, British Museum. Introducing the bearer, Taliesin Williams.

'Cymdeithas Dwyfundodiaid yn Neheubarth Cymru' thrives, to the great annoyance of the mighty champions of orthodoxy; they have thought it necessary to form a grand confederacy against this rising sect. The Rev. W---- G----n. A meeting of Ministers at Gellionnen next Wednesday and Thursday - their earnest wish that he (EW) will attend on Thursday at least (at Gelligron). Mr Rees, son of Mr J. Rees.

He has been lately at Swansea where he met with a very respectable and learned gentleman who had attended the Eisteddfod at Brecon. EW had some conversation with him and more particularly on the merits of the several pieces of poetry that had appeared in competition for the premiums and medals. The gentleman observed that the best way of obviating accusations and complaints would be to print all the pieces that were sent (in). When EW observed that the expense would be considerable and the price of the book to the public very much enhanced, he said let specimens of each be printed and the whole (of) a few of them, e.g. the ode by 'Casnodyn' (= ? Wm Owen Pughe). What EW means by specimens. Whatever may be adopted he hopes the addressee will adhere inviolably to the orthography of the writer and let the public pass their own judgement on the merit (or) demerit of what comes before them. There is a monthly publication now published at Bala (Gwiliedydd) which amongst other articles reviews all new publications in the Welsh language, 'and this of all our Monthly or Periodical Publications is the best written and that by far'. The gentleman who recommended this plan pressed him to write to the addressee on the subject. P. S. The 'cywydd' of Wm Harry of Garw Dylau in Penderyn has a good deal of metrical merit and a pleasing simplicity of sentiment, etc. Draft.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebeland, Merthyr. Discusses Mr Edward Thomas. The subject of Iestyn seems attractive. The addressee should not lose one day in asking Mr Traherne's leave to see his documents regarding the early history of this county. Other suggestions. Mr David Jenkin has sent him his MSS and pedigrees for the history of Glamorgan - he (WW) is more convinced than ever that Cromwell sprang from this family. Moore's history of Ireland.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Has the addressee had an opportunity of speaking to Mr Edward Thomas about coming here? Mr Evans of Cardiff has written wishing him to ask the addressee for some charter in his possession respecting Landaff. Would the following be of any use to the addressee respecting 'Dydd Calan'? Discusses the notes to their poems as an appendix to the life of Iestyn.

'EW at Mr Taliesin Wms (my son) Mathematical and Commercial Accademy in this Town' [Merthyr] to ----, [?Merthyr]. He has presumed to send the addressee the Prospectus of an ancient and interesting work in MS in his possession, which under the patronage of the Powysian Literary Society and of their President, Sir W. W. Wynne, he is now conducting through the press. He cannot imagine that the addressee, although most probably no Welsh reader, is not a friend to Welsh Literature. Draft.

A note written at the request of Gwenllian Jones, the bearer, who has an occasion to consult a Magistrate. Copy.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. He has just received a letter from Sir Thomas Philipps, who wishes to have a list of the addressee's MSS, stating the subject, age, number of pages, and size of each volume. His own view that they are essentially Glamorgan, and if they get out of the addressee's hands the history of it will never appear. He has lately read Geraint ap Erbyn. Shall they fix on May next for the completion of the lineage of Gwent? Can he state to Sir T. Philipps that it is the addressee's intention to write a history of this county? He is anxious to lay before the public, either in a newspaper or periodical, a short history of the Myvyrian, of its contents, &c. - would be much obliged if the addressee would give him a skeleton of it.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Asking the addressee, when he has an opportunity, to give Mr White the enclosed prospectus. He was exceedingly pleased with the addressee's critique of Rhys Goch. Is very anxious that the addressee should publish a translation of his Coelbren. The numbers of the Myvyrian are very cheap when it is considered that the Welsh text is subjoined. Reference to questions asked in No. 1,042.

He has been driven as it were to the necessity of an application to the Literary Fund Society by an unprincipled fellow of a printer (Job James). Draft. Incomplete.