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Holograph copies of articles, etc., by T[homas] Gwynn Jones [professor of Welsh Literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth], published in Y Darian, 1919-1926, including a series of articles entitled 'Iwerddon' (18, 25 Medi, 2, 9, 16 Hydref 1919, subsequently published as a booklet (50 pp.) under the same title, Aberdar, 1919); a series of articles entitled 'I Leddfu Gofid' (26 Mai, 9, 16, 23, 30 Mehefin, 7 Gorffennaf 1921, subsequently published as a booklet (63 pp.) under the title Peth Nas Lleddir, Aberdar, 1921); an essay entitled 'Colofnau Mwg' ( 16 Rhagfyr 1926, subsequently published in the author's Beirniadaeth a Myfyrdod, Wrecsam, 1935, pp.119-27); reviews of Saunders Lewis: A School of Welsh Augustans, Wrexham, 1924 (29 Mai 1924), and of Kate Roberts: O Gors y Bryniau. Naw Stori Fer, Wrecsam, 1925 (7 Mai 1925); a letter headed 'Tafodiaith', in reply to a correspondent's observations in Y Darian, 4 Mehefin 1925, on comments by T. Gwynn Jones in his review of O Gors y Bryniau (see above) on the author's use of dialect (11 Mehefin 1925); and adjudications on 'englynion' submitted in a literary competition organised by Y Darian (28 Rhagfyr 1922), on the 'rhieingerddi' and 'myfyrdraethau' submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1923 (16 Awst 1923; for the adjudication on the 'rhieingerddi', see also Cofnodion a Chyfansoddiadau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1923 . . . Barddoniaeth a Beirniadaethau, pp.95-6), on the chair poems and 'englynion' submitted at the Cardiff and District Welsh Societies Eisteddfod, 1925 (2, 9 Ebrill 1925), and on the short stories submitted in a competition organised by Y Darian, 1925 (26 Tachwedd 1925). Most of these items are listed in A Bibliography of Thomas Gwynn Jones. Reprinted from The Bibliography of Denbighshire, Part 3, Wrexham, 1938. See also the supplement to this work, published in Denbighshire Historical Society Transactions, vol. 5, 1956, pp. 131-49.

A scrap-book of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') containing cuttings from Welsh and Welsh American newspapers, with occasional manuscript annotations by the compiler. The titles include 'Llenoriaeth Geltaidd' by [John Peters] 'Ioan Pedr', 'Cyfraith a Chyfreithwyr yr Hen Gymry', 'Prydain yn yr Hen Amser', 'Beirniadaeth Feiblaidd' by L. E. Lewis, Lisle, New York, 'Llosgi Llyfrau' by 'Thalamus', New Straitsville, Ohio, 'Gwahanfodaeth y Genedl Gymreig' by W. Morris ('Rhosynog'), Treorci, 'Y Mabinogion', 'Y Llyfr Gweddi Cyffredin' by [John Jones] 'Tegid', Oxford, 'Eisteddfod Salt Lake City. Beirniadaeth Pryddestau y Gadair .....' by T. C. Edwards ('Cynonfardd'), 'Bedyddwyr Cymru: eu dyled i'w haneswyr' by E. T. Jones, Llanelli, 'Hanes yr Hen Eglwys Brydeinig' translated by Herbert Jones, 'Noson gyda'r Llyfr Emynau' by E. M. Evans ('Morfryn'), Liverpool, 'Geiriau Saesneg diarfer wedi aros yn y Gymraeg' by J. Hammond, Scranton, 'Gwerin-eiriau Sir Gaernarfon', etc., by [Owen Griffith Owen] 'Alafon' (1907), 'Llen Gwerin Sir Fon' by [Morien Môn Huws] 'Morien', 'Gwerin-eiriau Sir Gaernarfon' by [James Spinther James] 'Spinther', 'Myrddin Fardd a Llenyddiaeth Lleyn' by J[ohn] Daniel [rector of Llandudwen] (1907), 'Pererindod i Lanilltyd Fawr (Llantwit Major)' by 'Caron', 'Y modd y daethym o hyd i fedd Goronwy Owen o Fon' by David Lloyd, Maine, 'Taith i Glynnog' by 'Llwyd y Gwrych', 'Taliesin Benbeirdd' by [Ellis Pierce] 'Ellis o'r Nant', 'Poblogrwydd Ysbrydegaeth, a barn dynion mawr ar y pwnc' by Joseph Roberts, DD [of New York, etc.].

Miscellaneous notes by Ellis Pierce, including a draft adjudication on a collection of Caernarvonshire dialect vocabulary and character sketches.