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A volume of manuscript notes with insets (mostly newspaper cuttings, a few letters, etc.) compiled by Ionawryn Williams [of Manchester and Bethesda], and consisting mainly of biographical data relating to Welshmen who had resided in or been connected with the city of Manchester or the neighbourhood in the nineteenth century, including such figures as Robert Jones Derfel, the Reverend William James , and John Jones ('Poet Jones'), etc. A few of the entries refer to the compiler's previously published work on Manchester Welshmen entitled [Geirlyfr bywgraffiadol yn cynhwys byr-hanes y Cymry mwyaf adnabyddus fuont yn preswylio yn Manceinion, Salford, 1896]. The volume also contains an account of attempts to form a Welsh [literary] society in Manchester in 1835. Amongst the insets is a long autograph letter from R[ichard] J[ones] Berwyn, Trerauson Chwbut [sic] [Patagonia], to Ionawryn Williams, [18]97 ( a reply to a request for information concerning Thomas Penant Evans ('Twmi Dimol'), who had been one of the emigrants who had sailed to Patagonia in the Mimosa in 1865), and a short holograph note from the same writer to [Ionawryn Williams], undated (giving a few autobiographical details).

Manuscripts and papers, 1862-[1892x1900], of or relating to Lewis Jones, pioneer of the Welsh colony in Patagonia. They comprise journals, 1862-1863, of Lewis Jones recording his exploratory visit to Patagonia; material relating to the imprisonment, 1882-1883, of Lewis Jones and R. J. Berwyn whilst attempting to defend the rights of Welsh settlers; an essay, poetry and plays by Lewis Jones; and correspondence, 1862-1892, mainly relating to the Welsh colony.

Photocopies of crew agreements and log sheets of the ship Mimosa from its maiden voyage in 1853 to the last one in 1872, and including the voyage which took emigrants to Patagonia in 1865. The donor is the author of Mimosa: the life & times of the ship that sailed to Patagonia and its companion volume Mimosa's voyages : official logs, crew lists and masters (Talybont, 2007).