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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.

Wm Owen, No. 17 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square, London, to Iorwerth Gwilym [Mr Edwd Williams, Flimston, Cowbridge]. His fear that the addressee has applied himself to the intention mentioned in the first letter which he (WO) received. Hoping that this is not so, and also that he has done nothing to offend the addressee in any way. He sees that he is busy about to publish his English Poetry. O. Jones had asked him some time ago to give his name to Mr Nichols for two of the addressee's books and the writer himself wants two. He has sent some sheets as a pattern of the arrangement of the Dictionary which is now a heavy burden on his hands. Asking the addressee to notice any faults and to give his advice for improving it. Wrapper franked by W. Lewis.

Soliciting the addressee's vote and interest in his candidature for the vacant office of Secretary of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons. (Printed, except for the signature).

'Missent to Bridgend, supposed near Cowbridge'. It is a long time since either of them as much as wrote to the other. Now they missed each other the day Iorwerth started from London. The Cambrian Register. An extract from a letter from Walter Davies to O. Myvyr in which he asks where Ior. Gwilym is and bids OJ tell him if he is in London that Williams, formerly Librarian of Jesus College, Oxford, is now curate of Llandudno near Conway. WD also wishes to know (in order to assist Mr Yorke of Erddig) who are the descendants of the two royal tribes of S. Wales, etc. WO's surprise at being told by Mr Dyer and Roberts that the addressee's books were still in Star Court. He had the addressee's character lately from the mouth of an aristocrat - according to this he courts persecution. A new magazine called the Monthly, conducted by Dr Aikin. The wish of the proprietor, Mr Phillips, that Welsh matters should be discussed in it. Y Myvyr longs for a letter. Y Meddyg Du and Mr Dyer send their greetings. Franked by Nathl Jefferys.

He knows from the addressee's last letter that he is proceeding with the D. ab Gwilym - wishing to know when he will finish the work. The authorship of 'Y bilain o fabolaeth'- if the addressee thinks it is by DG it shall be printed in the Appendix. The arrangement and contents of the work. The addressee's request for the passage about 'cynghanedd' from Giraldus. He (WO) said that Gough was the author of Philistor's letters but that is not so. Asking him not to divulge the secret - Pinkerton is the man. Wishing to know how the Rev. Mr Walters is - can they expect another number of the Dictionary to be out soon? P. S. The addressee will see in the Gent. Magazine that he has answered Philistor under the name 'Owain o Feirion'. Sending 'Bras grynodeb o ragymadrodd at y darllenydd - y 'Ngwaith DG' and 'Byr Hanes am Dd. Gm.' It was after beginning this letter that he thought of sending these, otherwise he would have taken a larger sheet of paper.

He sets off for Dolgellau by next Wednesday's coach. What he will bring with him and what he wishes the addressee to bring.

Acknowledging a letter which he has been looking for ever since last December twelvemonth. The Jamaica news the addressee tells him. What EW says concerning wealth he likes much; the application of the results drawn from his "Unitarian religion" may be correct but it surprises the writer to find how very incorrect his inferences from "the religion of Joanna Southcott" are. The addressee's letter being addressed to him in Thames Street he read it to Mr O. Jones. The addressee's "Narrative". WO's opinion is that there have been faults on both sides, and that this same Narrative is a "wonderful infatuation". It gives him very great pleasure indeed to be informed of the forward state of several of the addressee's literary subjects. The Yniales raises his curiosity a good deal. During last autumn he translated a good deal of Joanna's explanation of the Bible into Welsh, 'which will shake your Unitarian structure about your ears. What say you to that Iolo!!?'. He has also compiled a short Grammar all in Welsh 'which will be printed by Mr Charles at Bala, for the use of the numerous schools raised by the Methodists; for they are the only people now that give currency to any books in Wales; and indeed the only readers of books in their mother tongue.' He (WO) has printed an edition of the said grammar while he has been now in London, 'but this is not to make its appearance before the common edition, lest a prejudice should be raised; as it is printed in the orthography of Coelbren y Beirdd as to principle, but the roman letters as to form.' He supposes that he will remain in London a fortnight or three weeks further; if he is not favoured with another epistle before he goes his direction must be Denbigh.

Acknowledging his letter enquiring for Mr E. Williams. He is now in Kent and according to advice from him he will be back on Thursday or Friday. There are several letters for him, three marked Oxford, and two of them, he supposes, must be the addressee's. Hoping the addresse thinks he acts best in not returning them with this, as EW returns so soon.

He has received her letter yesterday by which he is sorry to find her so uneasy about Mr Williams, but he hopes without reason. They have not heard from him here or from Mr Davies since Mr W. was with the addressee at home which is now a long while ago, and therefore it is not in his power to give her any satisfactory answer but he hopes she has heard from him before this comes to her.

A letter endorsed: 'Effects of Roman Literature denied, wants me at London .' Reference also to EW's answer to the communication made by Mr Marriot from his brothers: 'O Iolo, Iolo! to make such a sacrifice!'.