Item 307. - Wm Owen, No. 40 Lamb's Conduit Street, London, to Mr Edward Williams, Flimston,

Wm Owen, No. 40 Lamb's Conduit Street, London, to Mr Edward Williams, Marble Mason, Flimston near Cowbridge. He sees now that it would have been better if they had been in less of a hurry in printing Barddoniaeth D. ab Gwilym. They must put the 'cywyddau' sent by the addressee as an addition at the end of the book. The proposed arrangement of the work - O. Myfyr is assuming the responsibility of the cost of publication, without advance payment and without expecting gain. He is very sorry to hear the account given by the addressee of the unfriendliness of Y Myfyr and Y Ceiriog. Reassuring him on this point. A report - incorrect, the writer hopes - that the addressee was without his freedom for two years. The Rev. Mr Warrington has almost finished printing the History of Wales. It will contain two maps - thanking him for his assistance towards these. So Taliesin has appeared again? He will write again when sending the D. ap Gm, and so will leave some things in the addressee's letter unanswered until then. And the addressee was in London in 1785? - and without seeing Y Myfyr, &c. Endorsed: 'Llythyr Cyntaf neu ail William Owain.'