Item 373. - Wm Owen, Penton Street, Pentonville, to Mr Edward Williams, Flimston near Cowbridge,

The addressee's silence. He believes that it is between two and three months since he sent the maps in a parcel with the telegraph coach, enclosing a short letter, numbers of the Greal, &c. Soon afterwards Mr Richard Rees told him the agreeable news of a plan concerted by the addressee's friends 'of which Mr Malkin was to be the ostensible agent in London; and which I hope before now that they have been able to accomplish; and which will render the odd quarrel between Myvyr and you of less consequence, in one respect, to my mind; though I lament greatly it should have ever taken place.' The third vol. of the Archaiology will be finished, he hopes, in about three months; the arrangement of the volume. A friend of Mr Williams of the Strand is on a tour through Wales to collect information, the writer believes, on popular superstitions and customs and is to call on the addressee; he desired WO to write a letter for him to carry to the addressee, by way of introducing himself, and Mr W. seemed anxious for the writer to do so. If EW should have any papers to send him they will be safely conveyed by the bearer of this. Endorsed: 'Wm Owen. Dal sylw!'.