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Williams, Robert, 1810-1881 Cornish language -- Dictionaries -- Celtic languages
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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).