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An account of his route homewards from the place they parted at Ewenni. He has just received a letter from Mr O. Jones requesting a note of hand upon a proper stamp for £50; he really cannot help being surprised at the request. Requesting the addressee to forward by post his remaining packet as soon as possible. He wishes he would write a little copiously on the properties of lime. His respects to the addressee's family and to Mr Thomas of St Athan, also to Mr John Williams and Mrs Williams, his hospitable hosts at St Athan. Has the addressee heard anything further from Southcott's Tyroes?.

The promised Report. Begging of him to lose no time in sending him the papers.

Walter Davies, Manavon, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Schoolmaster, Merthyr Tudful. He hopes to hear by the bearer that the obstacle to the publication of the Cyfrinach y Beirdd has been removed. When he was in the Vale of Glamorgan in 1811 he remembers giving the addressee a copy of 'Awdl Amaethyddiaeth'. He now finds that he has forgotten it, and more, that he kept no copy of it - he has preserved a copy of his other awdlau. If the addressee can lay his hand upon it, will he lend it to him to copy?

The addressee's silence since they parted at Carmarthen in July 1819. He wrote a long letter to Taliesin soon after the Eisteddfod at Carmarthen, but received no answer. The approaching Powys Eisteddfod at Wrexham on Sept. 13-14 which the addressee is invited to attend. Sketching out EW's line of road to Wrexham. See letter from Walter Davies to Taliesin Williams, 17 Jan. 1820.

Opportunies of conveying a letter to and from Cowbridge. The North Wales Report is now in the press and that of S. Wales must immediately follow. Queries referring to alterations for the better or for the worse that may have occurred since 1802 and 1805. Iolo Morganwg has written some agricultural notes on the dorse. Torn.

W[alter] D[avies], Manafon, W[elsh]pool, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Gilestone, Cowbridge. It is now a long time since the writer left Glamorgan Requesting the addressee, after consulting his father, to answer the following questions (concerning agriculture, etc., in Glamorgan). See letters from Walter Davies to Iolo Morganwg.

Walter Davies, Manafon, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebeland, Merthyr. Thanking him for his letter and also for his promise to try to ferret out poor Mynyddig's lost 'cywydd'. Reference to the attack upon the addressee's Cardiff Awdl. Colyn Dolphin - names of subscribers. The addressee intends kidnapping Sion Davydd Rhys - may he succeed. The writer undertook a similar performance with regard to Owain Glyndwr and succeeded though he met with some opposition. The poems of Lewys Glynn Cothi. 'Fanny blooming Fair' and 'Ffanni blodau'r ffair'. The orthography of Tegid and the addressee - they are both wrong.

Walter Davies, Manafon, Welsh Pool, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Schoolmaster, Merthyr Tudful. The Carmarthen Committee. Resolutions of a meeting held at Wrexham on Oct. 6 last (Cymmrodorion Society of Powys); the subjects for competition at the Wrexham Eisteddfod in August, etc. The writer has agreed with a Wrexham printer to publish his edition of the works of Huw Morus. Telling the addressee not to let the Englynion i D. ab Edmwnt go out of his hands. Has he seen an Amseroni for 1820? - how the author styles himself. On the back of the letter is part of a reply (in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg) beginning, 'My father has several pieces by Hugh Morys that have never been printed ...'. See letters from Walter Davies to Iolo Morganwg.

Asking the addressee to answer by return of post, and if he can send the papers promised too, so much the better. Myfyr and Meirion have had lately a violent squabble with some Venedotians with D. Ddu o Eryri at their head, about the Greal. The writer has been told (by a Salopian) of a letter to Myfyr from the addressee in March last which gave the poor man great uneasiness. He wishes with all his heart he could make them both as good friends as they formerly were (i.e. EW and Myfyr). He wishes the addressee had occasion to come this way, and stop (stay) a week, or as long as he pleases.

He is much pleased with the quantity and quality of the addressee's last full sheet. He is now returning from a short trip into co. Card. Mr Johnes of Havod. A few questions - about a beverage called 'Ebilon', threshing machines, and new improvements at Merthyr Tudful since last year. The letter is franked by T. Johnes.

His doubt whether his last letter came to the addressee's hand. If Iorwerth Gwilym is in London this letter is for him too. Coelbren y Beirdd Alphabet. Observations and queries concerning antiquities on a hill called Craig Llanymynach on the boundary of co. Mont. and Shropshire, the locality of Sycharth, and the etymology of Machynlleth. A publication by R. P. Knight on the ancient worship of the god Priapus, etc. His own want of resolution. Mr Phillips of Lombard Street, George Yard, last week sent him a proof copy of the Quakers Epistle to correct.

Walter Dav[ies], Dolgellau, to Mr Edward Williams, Flimston, 'By favour of the Rev. Mr Williams of Cowbridge'. A note requesting him to transmit the papers respecting the Agriculture &c. of S. Wales. He will hope then to renew his correspondence with him after two years' taciturnity.

Acknowledging a letter. The addressee's health. He has heard of the Itinerary of Lluyd, and if the addressee can copy it for him without much inconvenience he will esteem it a great favour. A comparison with L[ewis] M[orris]. The Celtic Remains. When the addressee comes to Oxford he hopes he may have leisure to stop for some days; they will rummage Ed. Lluyd's papers. The Pembrokeshire Militia halted here yesterday. Asking him not to publish his opinion of LM & his Celt[ic] Rem[ain]s lest it cause an aversion to subscribers.

Walter Davies, All Souls, to Iorwerth Gwilym, Bardd wrth fraint a defod Beirdd Ynys Prydain, yn Llundain. He expects the addressee in Oxford about this time. A publication of the Tuscan Antiquities which he happened lately to see. In Anglesey they suppose Coelbren y Beirdd to be wholly invented by the addressee. If genuine it gives him applause and credit for the preservation, and if spurious it is not derogatory to his genius, for 'whoever invented it, he was no fool'. A query.

Walter Davies to [Taliesin Williams]. Could the addressee or some friend of his apply to Dr Williams [?of Cowbridge] with W. D.'s best compliments for the 'Cywydd i Ddyffryn Morganwg' which 'Mynyddig' wrote and sent in to the Cardiff Eisteddfod (instead of the English poem expected)? Asking to be informed at the same time whether Mynyddig's letter appeared in the Merthyr Guardian. The letter originally formed part of one addressed to Mr Thomas Powel, Saddler, Dowlais, near Merthyr Tudfyl.

The time has come that he is compelled to send up the Survey of South Wales, and he is particularly anxious to see the addressee before doing so . Where to meet. The letter was franked by [?Lord] Napier, Edinburgh, July 11.

Explaining his long silence. Relating to sending Col. Capper's pamphlet on management of wastes. Early last summer he wrote a long letter to Taliesin Williams under a frank by Geo. Sinclair, esq. As he has had no answer he is persuaded the letter miscarried. Various queries - geological, botanical, and agricultural. (See letter from Walter Davies to Taliesin Williams, April 1812).

Mr Williams of Cowbridge School tells him the South Wales report will be completed by the addressee by the beginning of October, which he (WD) devoutly hopes will prove to be truth. 'If so, Mr Malkin promises he will take care of the packet, and forward it, with another from himself, from London.' Asking the addressee to let him know when he means to visit the North, and whether he will favour him with a visit at his new residence at Llanwyddelan.

[Walter Davies] 'Gwallter Mechain', Castell Gwdrig yn Erging [Goodrich Castle], 'At Taliesin ab Ierwerth Gyda y Brawd barddonawl Ioan Tegid'. Asking him whether he remembered his promise a year or two ago to inquire for Mynyddig's cywydd.

How he left a letter for the addressee at the Post Office at Tenby. He did not arrive here (i.e. Fisgard [sic]) until Tuesday the 20th - expecting to find that the addressee had been here two or three days before. Hearing nothing of him he is distressed beyond measure. His intended course from hence to Havod. Directions for the addressee if he should follow him. Endorsed: 'Walter Davies yn Nyfed'.