Item 873. - [Edward Williams], Flimston, to Owen Jones, esq., No. 148 Upper Thames Street, London,

A request for a copy of one of Cuhelyn's Odes from the Macclesfield MSS. Cuhelyn lived in the ninth century and he and other poets of that period must be particularly noticed in the little work which the writer intends for publication next winter (in November). Englynion Hugarfel. As soon as he has finished the Agriculture business he will prepare his Defence of Turner's Vindication for the press, and it shall be the last employment of his pen on anything concerning Welsh Literature, in Britain at least. He has settled with a West India merchant at Bristol to take him and his family in October or November to Jamaica; thence as soon as convenient he will go to some part of America. If they will come he believes he will be able to take with him Mr Owen and his family. He greatly laments that the first volume of the Archaiology was so precipitantly put to the press. Mr Thos Jones of Bath. The writer has some thoughts of taking two or three thousands of his books to Bristol in hopes he may be able to sell them. He is preparing to make his will. His intentions with regard to his MSS. He has an occasion to write a letter in a few days to a cousin of his, Mrs Cartwright, and he wishes for her to have it unknown to Mr Cartwright or any of the family; will the addressee be pleased to take it in and send one of his men with it to her?