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- 1872-1894 (Creation)
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A group of poetry and miscellaneous papers from the collection of, and partly in the autograph, of David Griffith (Clwydfardd). They include englynon by Clwydfardd, e.g. 'Ar ymweliad ei rasusolaf Fawrhydi Tywysog Cymru an gwyl Genedlaethol yn Nghaernarfon Gorphenaf [1894]'; 'Ir diweddar barchedig Edward Anwyl Cadeirydd y Dalaith Ogleddol', etc.; englynion addressed to Clwydfardd by Richard Parry (Gwalchmai) and John Cadvan Davies (Cadvan) (1891); copies of the proclamations of meetings of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain at national and provincial eisteddfodau; a letter, [c. 1891], from Clwydfardd to B. Morris Lewis, Chelsea, giving particulars of nineteenth century national and other eisteddfodau; notes on the key to 'Coelbren y Beirdd', etc., by T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn); incomplete notes on the Epistle to the Hebrews; and an incomplete eulogy of the writing pen, 1872.
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Language of material
- Welsh
- English
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Welsh, English.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 268-9.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10910E.
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- Gorsedd y Beirdd (Subject)
- Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru (1894 : Caernarfon, Wales) (Subject)
- Edward VII, king of Great Britain, 1841-1910 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Anwyl, Edward, 1786-1857 (Subject)
- Griffith, David, 1800-1894 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Gwalchmai, 1803-1897 (Subject)
- Cadvan, 1846-1923 (Subject)
- Lewis, B. Morris, Chelsea (Subject)
- Thomas, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1839-1915 (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
November 2008.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.