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A scrapbook, compiled by J. W. Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog, and unbound leaves containing holographs, transcripts, and press cuttings of poetry in free and strict metres, 1893-1903 and 1918?, by William (Gwilym) Morgan, quarryman, of Blaenau Ffestiniog, together with adjudications by [Sir] J[ohn] Morris Jones (press cuttings), [Howell Elvet Lewis] ('Elfed') (transcript), etc. MS. 11064 also contains testimonials, 1901, to William Morgan and Mrs Morgan from Robert Roberts, J. P., surgeon, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Reverend W[illiam] P[ari] Hughes, Dolgellau, and Wm. Davies, Junior, Managing Partner, The Diphwys Casson Slate Quarries Company, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the first (and presumably the other two) in support of their candidature for the posts of master and matron of Pwllheli Workhouse; and a holograph letter, 1936, from [Humphrey Jones] ('Bryfdir'), Rhiwbryfdir, to [J. W. Jones], enclosing copies of 'in memoriam' verses to Gwilym Morgan. Included in MS. 11065 is a holograph letter, 1899, from Robert Roberts, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to Gwilym Morgan, with observations on 'englynion' in English by the recipient.

Fifteen notebooks containing 'Cyfrif o'm Goruchwyliaeth' or records of visits to Welsh patients at Liverpool hospitals and elsewhere, 1896-1913, by the Reverend John Evans (1847-1921), Calvinistic Methodist Town Missionary, of Beaconsfield Street, Princes Road, Liverpool. Mounted or stitched into the volumes are a large number of relevant letters and postcards addressed to John Evans, among the correspondents being J. J. Roberts ('Iolo Caernarfon'), Portmadoc, 1897-[9], Griffith Ellis, Bootle, 1898-1908, Rosina Davies, Treherbert, 1898, [Evan Rees] ('Dyfed'), Cardiff, 1902, W. Pari Huws, Dolgellau, 1904, Thomas Levi, Aberystwyth, 1904, The Religious Tract Society, 1904-7, [J. O. Williams] ('Pedrog'), 1906-11, etc.