Election songs & broadsides, &c.,
- NLW MS 21402F.
- Ffeil
- 1789-1826.
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Election songs & broadsides, &c.,
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Letters (surnames Rees-Thomas) addressed mostly to Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo).
The correspondents include William Rees, Llandovery, 1837-1846 (Nos 626-684), W. J. Rees, Cascob, 1821-1841 (Nos 687-698a), Edward Lewis Richards, 1830-1843 (Nos 700-732), and [?John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquis of] Bute, 1829-1838 (Nos 741-744).
Rees, William, 1808-1873
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Letters (surnames Davies-Hall) addressed mostly to Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo).
The correspondents include Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), [1812]-1837 (Nos 130-135), David Davis, Neath, 1810-1841 (Nos 137-148), John Davis (Brychan), 1829-1841 (Nos 149-157), Lady Charlotte Guest, 1837-1843 (Nos 191-202), and Augusta Hall, 1834-1841 (Nos 206-250).
Davies, Walter, 1761-1849
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Various lists of Welsh words and their meanings, along with miscellaneous Welsh poetry.
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
An essay 'On the Discovery of America &c' (cf. Iolo A. Wiliams MS 104/1-2 [NLW MS 21394D]).
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Designs for monuments, etc., by Edward Williams (iolo Morganwg)
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
English poetry mainly by, or in the hand of, Iolo Morganwg.
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Welsh poetry mainly by, or in the hand of, Iolo Morganwg.
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Literary papers from various sources.
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Fifteen manuscript tune books belonging to Iolo Morganwg, including five volumes of hymn-tunes composed by him for his Welsh hymns or 'salmau', each entitled 'Salmyddiaeth Iolo Morganwg' or variants thereof (E2/1-5), together with several others containing at least some salmau (E2/8-12). Also included are volumes containing English hymns (E2/6, 11), Tribannau (E2/13) and Scottish airs (E2/15).
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
A bundle of loose sheets (E4/1) and five small booklets (E4/2) containing various drafts of introductions and glossaries for Iolo's hymns, or 'salmau', presumably intended for the two volumes of his Salmau'r Eglwys yn yr Anialwch (1812, 1834); together with two bundles containing drafts and fragments of Iolo's salmau (E4/3-4).
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Miscellaneous notes and papers of Iolo Morganwg, [18 cent., last ¼]-[1830s], on a variety of subjects, including (mainly Welsh) history (E8/1), religion (E8/2), Welsh and English literature, including Dr Johnson (E8/3), Bardism (E8/4) and biography and genealogy (E8/5); together with further bundles of miscellaneous notes and papers, retained in original order (E8/6-9), with subjects including politics, printing and Poems Lyric and Pastoral, 1784-[c. 1809] (E8/6), patriarchal religion, priestcraft and Lewis Morris (E8/7), poetry and monumental inscriptions (E8/8) and salmau (E8/9); and a case containing notes on Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum and at Jesus College, Oxford (E8/10).
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Miscellaneous papers of Iolo Morganwg, collected in seven bundles with little or no unity (E9/1-7). Included is a bundle of fragments found amongst the papers of his son Taliesin (E9/7).
Miscellaneous deeds and documents
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Miscellaneous papers collected by Iolo Morganwg (and a few by Taliesin ab Iolo), comprising: an account of 'The state of the cause concerning the president and Councell established in the Marches of Wales', [?1641] (E13/1); a copy of the declaration of Prince Rupert, Shropshire, 6 May 1644, concerning the intent of the Commission of Marshal Law given by him to Sir John Mennes in the counties of Carnarvonshire, Merioneth and Anglesey (E13/2); a grant of a barn or cowhouse called Ty Pen y Twyn in Ystradyvoducke [sic], Glamorgan, 20 January 1653/4 (E13/3); a catalogue of books from unidentified library, [?17 cent, second ½] (E13/4, incomplete); a volume of sermon notes and/or Biblical commentary, [?late 17 cent. x early 18 cent] (E13/5, incomplete); a confirmation by Friedrich Augustus, King of Poland, etc., of appointment of a 'Geleitsmann', Dresden, 30 October 1703 (E13/6); a notebook containing a manuscript copy, [c. 1746], of the pamphlet An Appeal from the Late David Morgan Esqr … (London, 1746, ESTC T59776) (E13/7); lease of a plot of ground in the parish of Rumpney [sic], Monmouthshire, 24 March 1752 (E13/8); a rental of 'Dunraven Estate for the year 1756', [?1756] (E13/9); a schedule of land tax in Glamorgan for the year 1662, with a table giving the rate of tax from 1688 to 1759, [?1759] (E13/10); part of a deposition, [?1760s], by the unnamed tenant of land once owned by the late Miles Llewellin (junior) of Llantrisant, Glamorgan, concerning an unspecified dispute (ff. 28-30 only) (E13/11); draft particulars of lands belonging to John Bedford to be made a mortgage of the Hon. Board of Ordnance, providing a furnace and tools, [?1780] (E13/12); copy of a deed relating to [?a Unitarian meeting house] in Neath, 1814 (E13/13); a [?proof] copy of a reprinting, by W. Williams, printer, Merthyr Tydfil, of William Cobbett's address 'To the Journeymen and Labourers of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland…', [?1816] (E13/14); and three copies, 1816-1824, of English translations of two charters relating to the town of Aberavon (dated 1350 and 1373) (E13/15-17).
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
English poems and fragments, drafts and notes, mainly in the hand of Taliesin Williams, comprising poems generally of a more substantial or complete nature (T8/1), a bundle of smaller notes and fragments (T8/2), a bundle of poems in a generally poor condition (T8/3), notebooks containing poetry (T8/4-5), and notebooks and loose papers containing drafts and notes for Taliesin's poem The Doom of Colyn Dolphyn (London, 1837) (T8/6-11).
Rhan oIolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers
Poetical compositions, 1824-1827, submitted for competition at 'Eisteddfod y Fottas' (the Boot Eisteddfod), held by Cymdeithas Cadair Merthyr Tydfil at the Boot Inn (Arwydd y Fottas), Merthyr Tydfil, together with some adjudications (T9/1, 2 folders). Also included are copies, 1823-1827, of posters advertising the eisteddfodau (T9/2).
Taliesin Williams was secretary to Cymdeithas Cadair Merthyr Tydfil. Some of the compositions were printed in Awenyddion Morganwg; neu, Farddoniaeth Cadair Merthyr Tudful (Merthyr Tydfil, [1826]).
Cymdeithas Cadair Merthyr Tydfil