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A volume made up of fourteen letters, 1819-1851, from John Jones (Tegid or Ioan Tegid, 1792-1852), Oxford and later Nevern, to various correspondents. The details are as follows: six letters, 1819-1826, to the Rev. Thomas Richards, Berriew (the education of the addressee's brother and of E. Evans [probably 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'], a 'cywydd' on the death of Mrs Bosanquet, literary matters, adverse criticism from the bishop of Llandaff [William van Mildert] of a proof-sheet of the edition of the Welsh Prayer Book which the writer had undertaken to superintend); four letters, 1820-1824, to the Rev. David Richards, Llansilin (the education of the addressee's younger brother [Lewis], literary matters, the addressee's marriage, etc.); one letter, 1839, to Miss Angharad Lloyd [sic] (the Liber Landavensis is now in the press, he has completed his Welsh version of Isaiah direct from the Hebrew); one letter, 1846, to Owen Williams, Waenfawr (literary matters, criticism of the addressee's proposed 'Vocabulary'); one letter, 1851, to [Ebenezer Thomas] Eben Fardd (re. adjudicating the 'pryddestau' on 'Golygfa Moses &c'); and one letter, 1850, to the Rev. Richard Richards [Meifod] (he is glad to hear of the addressee's success, a proposed monument to Bishop William Morgan and the Rev. Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) at Llanrhaiadr yn Mochnant, plans for a commentary in Welsh on the Epistle to the Galatians etc.). Also included in the volume are extracts, 1845, from a manuscript of Rowland Hugh 'o'r Graienyn ger y Bala' ('Brawd Nain Ioan Tegid o du ei fam oedd Rowland Hugh'), transcripts of two letters, the originals of which are to be found in Peniarth MS 11, viz. a letter, 1847, from [John Jones] Tegid, Nevern to the Lady Charlotte E. Guest and a letter, 1860, from Tho[ma]s Stephens, Merthyr Tydfil to W. W. E. Wynne, Esq., and an outline of 'Tegid's Feet [shoes] drawn at the Vicarage Darowen at the request of ?M. D. Jones, Darowen, 1836'.
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English, Welsh.
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Preferred citation: 533E.
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- Jones, John, 1792-1852 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Richards, Thomas, 1785-1855 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Richards, Thomas, 1785-1855 -- Family (Subject)
- Van Mildert, William, 1765-1836 (Subject)
- Ieuan Glan Geirionydd, 1795-1855 (Subject)
- Richards, David, 1783-1826 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Richards, Lewis, 1799-1860 (Subject)
- Richards, David, 1783-1826 -- Marriage (Subject)
- Davies, Walter, 1761-1849 (Subject)
- Morgan, William, 1545-1604 (Subject)
- Jones, John, 1792-1852 -- Family (Subject)
- Richards, Thomas, 1785-1855 (Subject)
- Richards, David, 1783-1826 (Subject)
- Llwyd, Angharad (Subject)
- Williams, O. (Owen), 1790-1874 (Subject)
- Eben Fardd, 1802-1863 (Subject)
- Richards, Richard, 1780-1860 (Subject)
- Huw, Rolant, 1714-1802 (Subject)
- Stephens, Thomas, 1821-1875 (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1820-1885 (Subject)
- Guest, Charlotte, Lady, 1812-1895 (Subject)