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Gilbert Turner letters to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter

Some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Gilbert Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, which include references to the novelist Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh language and literature, visits to North Wales, the writer's procurement of library books for the recipients and the preparation of typescript copies of Powys's Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948). Turner continued corresponding with Phyllis Playter after John Cowper Powys's death in 1963.

Turner, Gilbert

Iolo MSS (1848)

Drafts and notes in the hand of Taliesin Williams for the volume Iolo Manuscripts, A Selection of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, in prose and verse, from the collection made by the late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg,… with English translations and notes by his son, the late Taliesin Williams (Ab Iolo) of Merthyr Tydfil (Liverpool: Welsh MSS Society, 1848).
Included are manuscript drafts of the Welsh texts on pp. 3-328 passim (T4/1), drafts of the English translations on pp. 341-496 passim (T4/2), drafts for the footnotes on pp. 332-489 passim (T4/3), a draft of pp. 331-507 passim combining text and footnotes (T4/4), and notebooks containing notes and memoranda relating to the volume (T4/5-11). Also included is a bundle of draft texts, relating mostly to Welsh saints in a format similar to T4/1 but which were either omitted from the volume or intended for another book on Bonedd y Saint (T4/12).

Notes

Miscellaneous notes and papers of Iolo Morganwg, [18 cent., last ¼]-[1830s], on a variety of subjects, including (mainly Welsh) history (E8/1), religion (E8/2), Welsh and English literature, including Dr Johnson (E8/3), Bardism (E8/4) and biography and genealogy (E8/5); together with further bundles of miscellaneous notes and papers, retained in original order (E8/6-9), with subjects including politics, printing and Poems Lyric and Pastoral, 1784-[c. 1809] (E8/6), patriarchal religion, priestcraft and Lewis Morris (E8/7), poetry and monumental inscriptions (E8/8) and salmau (E8/9); and a case containing notes on Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum and at Jesus College, Oxford (E8/10).

Trysorfa Gwybodaeth, neu Eurgrawn Cymraeg

A copy of the first issue of Trysorfa Gwybodaeth, neu Eurgrawn Cymraeg, [?3 March] 1770, each of the four sections separately paginated [1]-8 (ff. 2-5, 10-13, 18-21, 26-29), and copies of the first three sections (the news sheet is missing) from the sixth issue, [?12 May] 1770, each paginated 41-48 (ff. 6-9, 14-17, 22-25).
Also included is a sheet, March 1770, advertising the publication of the fourteenth part of Bibl Cymraeg; Gyd a Sylwiadau ac Esponiadau ar bob Pennod, ed. by Peter Williams (1770, see Libri Walliae 369-372) (f. 1).

Rees, Josiah, 1744-1804

Mostyn Manuscripts

  • GB 0210 MSMOSTYN
  • Fonds
  • [late 12 cent.]-[early 20 cent.]

Manuscripts, [late 12 cent.]-[early 20 cent.], formerly part of the library of the Mostyn family of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, comprising transcripts and extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Dares Phrygius, Nennius, Gildas, David Jenkins (Judge Jenkins), Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, Lydgate's 'Life of Our Lady', Leland's Itinerary, 'Chroniques de France', historical manuscripts such as Brut y Tywysiogion and Brut y Brenhinoedd, Welsh romances and the Mabinogion; collections of mainly Welsh poetry, among them the seventeenth-century volumes Llyfr Coch Nannau and Llyfr Gwyn Corsygedol, containing poems by Dafydd ap Gwilym, Guto'r Glyn, Tudur Aled, Siôn Cent and others; genealogies, pedigrees and histories; official papers relating to Caernarvonshire; catalogues of the Mostyn and Gloddaeth libraries, 1692-1842; etc.

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Llythyrau

Letters, 1835-1840, from David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion') to Richard Humphreys (Faerdref) , Ellis Owen and James Spooner (Tremadog), together with drafts of letters by David Owen relating to Welsh literary matters.

Addresses

Addresses by Meredith J. Hughes on 'Myth and legend in the literature of Wales', 1914, and 'Democratic Theory and Institutions', 1919; a hymn 'Ymwel a mi o Arglwydd da', and a poem entitled 'Afon Alun', 1924.

'Nefydd' Miscellanea

One of two volumes of 'Nefydd' miscellanea, including material relating to Welsh literature and bibliography, eisteddfod adjudications, etc.

'Nefydd' Miscellanea

One of two volumes of 'Nefydd' miscellanea, including material relating to Welsh literature and bibliography, eisteddfod adjudications, etc.

Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg

Cyhoeddiadau a phapurau ymchwil G. J. Williams, [1911x1963], ar lenyddiaeth Gymraeg, gan gynnwys deunydd perthynol i'r cyhoeddiad Gramadegau'r Penceirddiaid; nifer o ddarlithoedd ac erthyglau; ynghyd ag adysgrifau o lawysgrifau o wahanol ffynonellau a nodiadau amrywiol.

Torion papur

Torion papur, [1920x1963], yn ymwneud â Iolo Morganwg, llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, crefydd, diwylliant ac addysg yng Nghymru. Yn eu plith ceir un bwndel o dorion, 1954-1956, o ysgrifau 'Cartrefi Cymru' gan Bob Owen, Croesor, yn Y Cymro.

Owen, Bob, 1885-1962

Welsh literature and philology,

Drafts of articles relating to Welsh literature and history and to Celtic institutions; lists of Welsh words derived from English and of words common to both branches of the Celtic family; and a poem entitled 'Rhiangerdd Gwenfalwy o Gastell Caerphili' by 'Idwal Trefor', 1874.

Sir Edward Anwyl.

A miscellany,

A Latin vocabulary, notes for the study of the Mabinogion, extracts from printed sources, notes on 'Y Gogynfeirdd' and their vocabulary, etc.

Sir Edward Anwyl.

Papurau Glyn M. Ashton,

  • GB 0210 ASHTON
  • fonds
  • 1910x[1991] (crynhowyd [1930x1991]) /

Mae papurau Glyn M. Ashton a dderbyniwyd yn 1992 yn cynnwys ei bapurau ymchwil, ynghyd â nifer o ysgrifau ac adolygiadau, gweithiau llenyddol, sgriptiau radio, gohebiaeth a deunydd printiedig. -- Mae'r papurau a dderbyniwyd yn 2001 yn cynnwys nodiadau a drafftiau o'i erthyglau a'i ddarlithoedd; copïau o lawysgrifau; drafftiau o'i nofelau a'i ddramâu; gohebiaeth; ynghyd â chofnodion Pwyllgor Eisteddfod y Barri, 1968.

Ashton, Glyn M

Miscellanies

Two volumes of miscellaneous transcripts mainly in the hand of Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain, 1761-1849), relating to the antiquities, history, topography, language, and literature of Wales. They include catalogues of Welsh manuscripts; transcripts of manuscripts of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), of letters of Edward Lhuyd, Lewis Morris, Goronwy Owen, etc., of Strata Marcella abbey charters, of monumental inscriptions, of Evan Evans's transcripts of Richard Farrington's archaeological notes, etc.; notes on Llanerfyl, Llangadfan, and Garthbeibio, written by William Jones, Llangadfan, and sent by him, with letters, to Walter Davies; a letter, 1792, from Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) to Walter Davies; an extract, by Lewis Morris, from his Celtic Remains; Marwnad Lewis Morys ... by Goronwy Owen, in the autograph of Evan Evans; etc. Both volumes are indexed.

Evans, Evan, 1731-1788

The Free Church Commission,

Papers relating to the work of 'The Free Church Commission promoted by the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches', 1913-1914; notes entitled 'Nonconformists and Welsh Literature' and 'Adgofion am Genhadwyr'; etc.

Letters to Jonathan Reynolds

Nearly two hundred autograph letters, 1855-1891, relating mainly to Welsh literary matters, and especially to Glamorgan, 1855-1899, to Jonathan Reynolds ('Nathan Dyfed') from contemporary Welsh poets and authors; miscellaneous poems; printed broadsides; press cuttings; etc.

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