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- [1957]- 2006. (Creation)
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1 bocs.
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John Glyn Davies (1870-1953), a Celtic scholar, was born in Liverpool, the son of John Davies, a tea merchant, and his wife Gwen, the daughter of John Jones (1796-1857) of Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, a celebrated Methodist preacher. He received his education at the Liverpool Institute, and worked for two sailing boat companies before being employed in 1899 as librarian of the Welsh Library of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, which was intended to form the nucleus of a national library of Wales. He left in 1907 for Liverpool University's Celtic Department, where he was head of department from 1920 until his retirement in 1936. His published works include collections of songs for children, Cerddi Huw Puw (1923), Cerddi Robin Goch (1935) and Cerddi Portinllaen (1936), many of which are based on sailors' songs he had heard during his youth, and a posthumous book of poems, Cerddi Edern (1955). He assembled the Tanycastell collection of papers, books and paintings relating to his ancestral Davies and Jones families, particularly John Jones of Tal-y-sarn (1796-1857), and manuscripts of Welsh poetry, including the Henblas manuscript and Gwallter Mechain manuscripts.
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Mr Cledwyn Jones; Bangor; Rhodd; Mawrth 2009; 004635822.
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Papurau ymchwil, [1957]- 2006, a gasglwyd gan y rhoddwr Cledwyn Jones wrth baratoi ei gyfrol Mi wisga'i gap pig gloyw: John Glyn Davies, 1870-1953: shantis, caneuon plant a cherddi Edern (Caernarfon: Gwasg Pantycelyn, 2003), gan gynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth blant y bardd. = Research papers, [1957]- 2006, collected by the donor Cledwyn Jones whilst preparing his volume Mi wisga'i gap pig gloyw: John Glyn Davies, 1870-1953: shantis, caneuon plant a cherddi Edern (Caernarfon: Gwasg Pantycelyn, 2003), including letters from children of J. Glyn Davies.
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Disgwylir i ddarllenwyr sydd am ddefnyddio papurau modern yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru gydymffurfio â Deddf Gwarchod Data 1998 yng nghyd-destun unrhyw brosesu ganddynt o ddata personol a gasglwyd o gofnodion modern sydd ar gadw yn y Llyfrgell. Nodir y manylion yn yr wybodaeth a roddir wrth wneud cais am Docyn Darllen.
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Amodau hawlfraint arferol.
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- Welsh
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Cymraeg, Saesneg.
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Preferred citation: NLW ex 2614.
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