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Wm Williams, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tidvil. Reminding him of his promise to write a Welsh inscription to be put on a silver snuff-box that was presented to the writer on his leaving Wales. He has annexed for TW's perusal an 'englyn' sent him for that purpose by one of his old friends - it was composed, he believes, by Mr Williams of the Swan. He has also annexed an inscription which is merely to convey an idea of what he wishes to say.

Wm Williams, Cowbridge Free School, to Ab Iolo, Merthyr Tydvil. The name 'Caerex' (a field). There is still a stone of some note within the turnpike-gate of the East which the writer remembers used to be annually whitewashed by the neighbours and to which the Corporation in their perambulation always used to walk, but he does not know whether it is a part of the cromlech to which the addressee alludes. There is no vestige to the best of his knowledge of the 'Twr y Bontfaen'.

Wm Thos FitzGerald, Upper Seymour Street, to Mr Edward Williams (The Welch Bard), Flimston near Cowbridge. Informing him with pleasure that the Committee of the Literary Fund have voted him ten guineas. Acknowledging receipt of his two Volumes and his ode to the Glamorgan Volunteers. He takes the liberty of saying that he very much prefers the addressee's poetry to his prose as the last contains opinions, both political and religious, that are directly in opposition to his own. A hint as regards a second edition of his Poems.

Thomas and Miles came to an agreement before the former went to America that the last survivor should have the whole. Thomas died in 17 days after arriving at Eddington, North Carolina, in Feb. last year. He is certain that Miles will die intestate, leaving his property in a very deranged state. The Chancery business between him (Miles) and his sister is yet undecided. Urging the addressee to come out himself or to appoint some substantial person or persons to act as his attorney. Naming two who are ready with the writer to give every assistance. A message for his own family. (For a copy of another letter from Wm Thomas see No. 639).

His surprise when he learnt that the addressee and his brother John never wrote to each other. He would advise him as a friend to keep up a friendly correspondence with all his brothers, but more particularly with John. Miles and John can muster from £15,000-£20,000 whenever they wish to dispose of their property. Contemporary events. Endorsed: 'William Thomas Jamaica. 1st Letter. 1803'.

Asking him to send the writer's shoes and buckle by Mr Gill, the Preacher. He believes he left them in the shop. Also his breeches from Richd Lewis the tailor's. On the dorse are some remarks on Wm Wms and his use or misuse of 'troellion ymadrodd', with an example from Caniadau ... y Môr o Wydr to illustrate the point.

He very willingly submits to the addressee's wish to be reconciled with him if the addressee will take under his protection the bearer, Mr Williams, a Welsh Bard, who quits his native country to visit America in hopes of finding out the colony of his countrymen that migrated under Prince Madoc.

Asking the addressee either to call at No. 12 Great Chapel-Street, Soho, or to let him know when and where he (Wm R.) can have the pleasure of seeing him before the next meeting of the subscribers to the literary fund . The writer is much at a loss how to act for want of seeing him and knowing what he has already condescended to do in the business. On the dorse is a draft of (?) part of the preface to Poems Lyric and Pastoral.

Mr Wm Owen, the writer's brother-in-law, wishes him to see the addressee on a business, and if the addressee can make it convenient to meet him this evening about 8 o'clock at the Horse and Groom at Cowbridge he will greatly oblige. On the back of the letter is a copy of an inscription on a stone now at Lanvaughan, the seat of Admiral Thomas, 'which stone was found in the ruins of Crugywheel chapel in the parish of Llanwenog, Cardigansh.'. This forms No. 22 in a series of inscriptions brought together by Taliesin Williams. The account of the inscription is not in the hand of EW but two Biblical quotations are.

The addressee's parcel containing the Triads and four letters came safe to hand. The bit of paper which came from him yesterday compels WO to send this without being able to answer the letters and without the (long-promised) parcel. He was sorry to find in one of EW's letters an enquiry whether EW had offended him. He is pleased at the manner EW unravels the difficulty respecting the anachronism of Einion Offeiriad and Edeyrn. He had a notion from some words dropped by Myvyr that the addressee must have had a letter from him since the arrival of his packet, but as it seems EW has had no such letter he has no doubt of his having it soon. The Welsh Mag. - Greal. A singularly strange piece of work that Old Nick [i.e. the devil] is now carrying on at a gentleman's house called Main in the parish of Meivod. He accordingly hinted to W. Mechain that he had heard some strange account from his parish - quoting the answer received. The Archaiology - EW's last collection of Triads will soon be put into the printer's hands. He is told that Bartholomon has made great progress in deciphering the Welsh Music. He thinks EW's Rambles through Wales would bring in some money if it is in such a state as to be put to the press. It seems that D. Ddu's Englynion have put him in a passion. Myvyr is a good deal troubled with the gout latterly. The small W[elsh] Dictionary. He has a young Bardd from Merthyr Tydvyl calling now and then, who has been about a month in London. His name is Tho. Williams. Endorsed: 'Wm Owen. Septr 3d 1805. Acknowledging the parcel of Triads and demanding 40£ of W. Mechain'.

The addressee's four letters. The History of the Bards: he believes that he knows EW's fault, 'and it is the aiming at a perfection that is unattainable.' The same observation will apply to what he has in hand for the agricultural report. He wishes this business were well out of EW's hands, 'and which Myvyr makes such a piece of work about' [i.e. commotion ]. Projects announced by EW. He considers it a very curious circumstance that EW should have met with so valuable an elucidation of the difficulty hanging about Edeyrn. The Grammar. 'The song of Fanni Blodau Fair was not sent with its translation (or) else it would have appeared therewith.' Taliesin and Peggy. Joanna Southcott and her prophecies. The lists of names. Endorsed: 'Wm Owen. June 30th 1803. Joanna Southcot, Myvyr's Grumbling'.

The lists of names are to be sealed up on Jan. 1 (Old Style) - hoping Iolo Morganwg, his wife, and children will sign. Today WO is to attend the burial of his brother-in-law, Thomas G. Harper. Two letters directed to EW here and another to Mr Hooper with his shares of Lottery Tickets shall follow after instead of being enclosed as mentioned at the beginning.

In his last he hinted about the addressee's getting the £40, and yesterday came a letter from Gwallter Mechain informing Myvyr of his having been with EW and settled about the Agricultural Report. Myvyr finding that money must be very necessary to EW in his present bad state of health loses no time in furnishing him with a part of the £40 by sending the enclosed draft for £10. The rest shall come at different times, but the writer supposes Myvyr wants to see how soon he can have a parcel of papers from him for the Archaiology and the Grûal, yet this is nothing of a condition. He only hints at this from Myvyr's having frequently taken notice of EW's taking with him all the books wherein such articles might be found. But what he wants to press upon the addressee is that as Myvyr is throwing all the past into oblivion he also should come halfway. He wishes very much the addressee could make up a packet immediately on the receipt of this, as a mark of forgetting the past and of pleasing Myvyr. Among the papers EW sends might come y Barddas, etc. Endorsed: 'Mr Owen Sepr 18th 1805 in a Navy office Cover, with a 10£ drafft. [part of 40£ and mystery as usual].' On the wrapper in the autograph of Margaret (Peggy) Williams is a copy of a letter from ----, Spanish Town, Jamaica, to ----, 22 July 1805, advising him to send out a power for the purpose of looking after his children's right.

Last Saturday he received a letter from Mr Turner to drink tea with him, and he found it was with a view of asking him to send the addressee the enclosed £5 note 'as a token of his wish to contribute to your comfort and means of forwarding the History of the Bards.' Is very sorry that he (WO) has not got together the articles [i.e. things] that are to form the parcel he has promised to send. He was at the funeral of his sister-in- law in Bond Street yesterday and otherwise so taken up as not to have an opportunity to write to the addressee at any length. They have received an awdl on the Gwyneddigion Tostun from Caermarthen - a short account of it. They are now printing the Triads which the addressee sent them. Having finished the little Dictionary he is now beginning the Mabinogion, therefore if EW has Twysoges yr Elod or any other tale he would be glad to find such in the parcel so as to make up one volume of tales wherein Arthur has nothing to do. Endorsed: 'Mr Owen Octr 21 1805, With Mr Turner's 5£. [Soliciting Twysoges yr Elod and a parcel for the Archaiology]'.

The addressee's silence. He believes that it is between two and three months since he sent the maps in a parcel with the telegraph coach, enclosing a short letter, numbers of the Greal, &c. Soon afterwards Mr Richard Rees told him the agreeable news of a plan concerted by the addressee's friends 'of which Mr Malkin was to be the ostensible agent in London; and which I hope before now that they have been able to accomplish; and which will render the odd quarrel between Myvyr and you of less consequence, in one respect, to my mind; though I lament greatly it should have ever taken place.' The third vol. of the Archaiology will be finished, he hopes, in about three months; the arrangement of the volume. A friend of Mr Williams of the Strand is on a tour through Wales to collect information, the writer believes, on popular superstitions and customs and is to call on the addressee; he desired WO to write a letter for him to carry to the addressee, by way of introducing himself, and Mr W. seemed anxious for the writer to do so. If EW should have any papers to send him they will be safely conveyed by the bearer of this. Endorsed: 'Wm Owen. Dal sylw!'.

'Your letter as a sign to prove whether I should turn out a Myvyrian toadeater or not came to hand so long since that probably you may have given a condemning sentence before this time.' Causes which may be the means of averting such a sentence - a call on Oct. 2 to Blaenau near Denbigh, where his old and distant relation, the Rev. Mr Pughe, resided. He died on Oct. 8, leaving the writer sole executor, &c., 'so that now I can either be in Wales or in London, to wait for the crisis in the grand period, which will terrify all you unbelievers.' He can also, he hopes, as things come round, be able to show his obligation to the addressee one way or other, and he hopes to be soon in Glamorgan, to answer his various inquiries in person, and which he is now obliged to put off, owing to the bustle he is in since the 29th ult., the day he arrived in town, leaving Sal & Nena at Blaenau, and he sets off tomorrow morning again for N. Wales, but not to make a long stay.

Wm Owen, Penton Street, Pentonville, London, to Mr Edward Williams, Marble Mason, Flimston near Cowbridge. Supposing that by this time EW has reached home he sends him some particulars for his consideration and opinion. He wishes EW would fulfil O. Myvyr's wish by drawing out a sketch of a preface to the first volume of poetry, the printing of which is just finished. The collection of Triads which EW lately sent - these are now printing, to fill the three half-sheets left for them. Wilford's discovery at Benares of an ancient Sanscrit book containing a description of Britain, earlier than the time of Cesar. Did EW copy the old music at Blaenau? Phillips of St Paul's Church Yard carries on a yearly volume of very extensive circulation called Public characters and wants much to have the addressee in it. The printing of Brut y Tywysogion is going on, therefore if the addressee has anything to furnish, asking him to send immediately. Telling him not to lose sight of arranging his proverbs.

Wm Owen, No. 40 Lamb's Conduit Street, London, to Mr Edward Williams, Marble Mason, Flimston near Cowbridge. He sees now that it would have been better if they had been in less of a hurry in printing Barddoniaeth D. ab Gwilym. They must put the 'cywyddau' sent by the addressee as an addition at the end of the book. The proposed arrangement of the work - O. Myfyr is assuming the responsibility of the cost of publication, without advance payment and without expecting gain. He is very sorry to hear the account given by the addressee of the unfriendliness of Y Myfyr and Y Ceiriog. Reassuring him on this point. A report - incorrect, the writer hopes - that the addressee was without his freedom for two years. The Rev. Mr Warrington has almost finished printing the History of Wales. It will contain two maps - thanking him for his assistance towards these. So Taliesin has appeared again? He will write again when sending the D. ap Gm, and so will leave some things in the addressee's letter unanswered until then. And the addressee was in London in 1785? - and without seeing Y Myfyr, &c. Endorsed: 'Llythyr Cyntaf neu ail William Owain.'

Wm Owen, No. 22 Penton Place, Pentonville, London, to Mr Edw. Williams, Marble-mason, Flimston, near Cowbridge. His pleasure at receiving the addressee's letter. 'The incident by which DG's remaining poems were prevented from being sent is curious'. The writer's Dictionary. The expectation of seeing the addressee at Christmas . Mr E. Jones and the Afallenau, etc. No particular news to communicate - a pamphlet is to make its appearance in a few days from the pen of a Dr J. Williams, an old Dissenting Minister, a native of S[outh] W[ales], to prove the existence of the Welsh or Madogian Indians in America. He himself has opened a correspondence with a gentleman of credit in America . ?Reference to his own marriage.

Wm Owen, No. 22 Penton Place, Pentonville, London, to Mr Ed. Williams, Marblemason, Flimston, near Cowbridge. Urging him to stay with him while he is in London. Edward Jones the harpist, who has returned from Wales restored to his usual health, wants the addressee to stay with him, but WO is the first to ask. Edward Jones's request concerning a MS illustrating the gamut of the ancient Welsh Notation and the addressee's original Welsh of the Afallenau.