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Williams, Robert, 1810-1881
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The Holy Greal,

A printed proof copy of Reverend Robert Williams (ed.): 'The Holy Greal', with manuscript notes.

Robert Williams transcripts, etc.,

Transcripts by Robert Williams from the Juvencus Glosses; a Latin-Welsh vocabulary, etc.; a manuscript of Williams's Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum, [?1865]; and Welsh proverbs with English translations and notes, 1836.

Robert Williams transcripts,

Papers of Robert Williams comprising a transcript of Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, a translation of 'Charlemagne'; notes on the Saint Greal and transcript of 'Y Grael'.

List of books,

Lists of books with prices, offered by D. Williams, London to the Reverend Robert Williams, Llangernyw and Conway. Most of the books are in Welsh or relate to Wales. There are notes, dated 1831-4, appended to three of the lists, relating to books available and books for which the addressee had enquired. A list of 212 Welsh books, published between 1802 and 1890, sent by [Charles Ashton] to [Daniel Silvan Evans], with a note appended (the above list contained all the books not purely theological out of about 600 books which the writer had recorded, he would like to see a copy of the 'Bardd Cwsg' edited by the addressee and also his note in Revue Celtique on Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry.).

Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum [etc.],

A copy of Robert Williams, Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum (Llandovery, 1865), with corrections, notes, preface, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments and a list of subscribers in manuscript.

Letters to Edward Breese

  • NLW MS 2302B
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Letters, 1872-80, to Edward Breese from Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), Thomas W. Hancock, Sir Lewis Morris, J.O. Halliwell [Phillips], Brinley Richards, and Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau).

Letters to D. Silvan Evans,

Seventeen letters, 1859-79, to D. Silvan Evans from the Reverend Robert Williams (1810-81), sixteen of which are written from Rhydycroesau (rectory), Oswestry and one from Culmington Rectory, Bromfield (the writer's Cornish dictionary, advice, words and their meanings, re translations for Mr Skene, 'these English Bishops', the 'Celtic Remains', the 'Greal', etc., the death of Henry Parry, r[ector] of Bylchau (mention of his father's library), interest in the addressee's preferment, he has been making a catalogue of the books in St Asaph cathedral library, reference to the death of Professor Evander Evans and Professor Ebel, the slowness of so many of his subscribers to pay, the writer's health, sympathy, his removal to Culmington).

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.

Geirfa,

A glossary of Welsh-English words in the hand of Robert Williams, perpetual curate of Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry. The work is signed 'Ty Deon Rhydychain, Hyd. 5, 1832' [i.e. the Deanery [Christ Church], Oxford, 5 October 1832].

Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'),

Copies of Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards translated into English ... (London,1764) and The Love of Our Country, A Poem ... (Carmarthen, 1772), both of them by Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'), and four letters, 1768-1787, from him to Thomas Pennant; a letter from Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau) to David Pennant; and prospectuses of printed publications by Evan Evans, Robert Williams, Thomas Lloyd Jones ('Gwenffrwd'), etc.

Evans, Evan, 1731-1788

Enwogion Cymru ...,

Manuscript of part of Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru; A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (Llandovery, 1852).

Enwogion Cymru ...

A copy, with marginal notes by Stephens, of Robert Williams: Enwogion Cymru, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (Llandovery, 1852); manuscript notes; press cuttings; a copy of Daniel Williams: Memoirs and Sketches of one hundred and eleven Eminent Men, Natives of the County of Cardigan ..., 1874.

Eminent Welshmen

An interleaved copy, with manuscript notes by the author, of Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (Llandovery, 1852).

Dyddiadur Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau,

A diary, January 1832 to 21 February 1847, of Robert Williams, perpetual curate of Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry from 1838 to 1879. Robert Williams served as curate of Llangernyw, Denbighshire from 1833 to 1836 and was appointed perpetual curate of Llangadwaladr in 1837. The diary, which is written in Welsh, contains references to events in his home district of Conway as well as to the areas where he served as a cleric. Beginning at the end of the volume there are poems by [John Jones] ('Tegid') (1828); a list of books entitled 'Llyvrau yn Ty Deon', 19 August 1832; accounts with booksellers, stationers, etc., 1832-9; extracts from Aristotle's Rhetoric; and lists of clothes ('Rhestr Dillad'), linen ('Lliain') and carpenter's tools ('Oferynau Saer').

Cornish dramas,

Transcripts of Cornish dramas (Meiriadog [Beunans Meriasek], etc.) by Robert Williams, [Rhydycroesau].

Cornish - English dictionary,

A holograph manuscript of the Reverend Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau near Oswestry, containing materials towards a portion (letters V, F-j, L-n, in this order) of his Lexicon Cornu - Britannicum (Llandovery ... London, 1865). The sections under letters V, H, L and N are dated respectively 7 September, 1 October, 8 October and 27 October 1835, but there are later additions which appear to be immediate drafts of the printed work.

Catalogue of Hengwrt manuscripts,

A printer's copy in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne of part of his 'Catalogue of the Hengwrt MSS. at Peniarth', which was published in Archaeologia Cambrensis 3rd series, vol. XV (1869), pp. 209-25, 352-78; 4th series, vol. I, pp. 73-100 (see Peniarth MSS 554-555); together with a letter, dated 21 July 1869, from W. W. E. Wynne to the editor of the Archaeologia Cambrensis (f. 73), and three letters, dated 7 May - 15 August 1869, from Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau, Oswestry to W. W. E. Wynne concerning the proof-reading of the text (ff. 74-6).

Wynne, William Watkin Edward, 1801-1880

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