- NLW MS 2725B.
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- [1840x1852] /
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Press cuttings of articles, including 'Sketches in Wales', and letters, etc. contributed by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd') to various newspapers.
Jones, Evan, 1820-1852
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Press cuttings of articles, including 'Sketches in Wales', and letters, etc. contributed by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd') to various newspapers.
Jones, Evan, 1820-1852
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
A series of questions by Robert Oliver Rees relating to Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd') and his stay at Tredegar as Congregational minister, 1845-1848, with replies sent by William Williams, Abercarn, 1872.
Rees, Robert Oliver, 1819-1881
John Calvin a Michael Servetus
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Notes on John Calvin and Michael Servetus by Robert Oliver Rees.
Robert Oliver Rees.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Extracts made by Edward Griffith from the manuscript journal for 1722-1734 of John Kelsal, Quaker, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire and Dolgun, near Dolgellau.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Miscellaneous correspondence, including letters from Lewis Williams, Llanfachreth to William Williams, schoolmaster, Towyn and to 'Cymdeithasfa fisol y Methodistiaid yn y Bala', from Robert Roberts, Cynfal Bach, Maentwrog 'at flaunoriaid y Capel Methodistiaid Tanygrisiau', from W[illiam] W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne to Angharad Llwyd, from Lewis Edwards, Bala to William Williams, Dolgelley, from Rachel Jones (widow of 'Ieuan Gwynedd'), Ellis Owen (Cefnymeusydd), John Owen (Thrussington), Robert Owen (Pennal), John Price (Oxford) and W[illiam] W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne to Robert Oliver Rees, from Thomas Edward Ellis, Edward Hughes (Wrexham), T[homas] M[orris] Jones ('Gwenallt'), Joseph Latchmore, R. Owen (Oxford), Daniel Pickard and John Vaughan (Nannau) to Edward Griffith, etc.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Letters, including a draft or copy of a letter, 1844, from Robert Oliver Rees to Mrs William Lewis, wife of a Calvinistic Methodist missionary at Cherrapoonjee, India, and an incomplete letter, 1871, from [? Hugh Roberts] a missionary on the Khasia Hills, India to Robert Oliver Rees, in which he refers to Thomas Jones.
Rees, Robert Oliver, 1819-1881
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
'Cywyddau' and other poems by John Vaughan, Wiliam Phylip, Siôn Phylip, Sion Dafydd ap Siencyn, Edwart ap Rhys, Raff ap Robert, Dafydd Nanmor, Gruff[u]dd Gr[y]g, Simwnt Fychan, Richard Phylip, Siôn Tudur, Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen, Rhys Cain, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Wiliam Llŷn, Syr David Owen, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Thomas Prys, Siôn Mowddwy, Wiliam Cynwal, Edmwnd Prys, Siôn Cain, Ellis Wynne, Ellis Rowland, Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Ffowc Prys, Iolo Goch, Dafydd Epynt, etc.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Pedigrees, mainly of North Wales families; a list of uncommon Welsh words taken from John Davies, Mallwyd: Dictionarium ... (London, 1632); a vocabulary of some 'hard' Latin words; 'cywyddau' and other poems by Rowland Williams, Rhys Meigen, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Rowland Vaughan, Siôn Cent, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Wiliam Phylip, Owen Gruffydd, Edmwnd Prys, Robin Ddu, Siôn Phylip, Sion Tudur, Gruffudd Phylip, Maredudd ap Rhys, Gutun Owain, Iolo Goch, Morus Berwyn, Ffowc Prys, Owain Gwynedd, Roger [C]yffin, Siôn Brwynog, Syr Owain ap Gwilym, Wiliam Llŷn, Huw Arwystli, Richard Phylip, Dafydd Nanmor, [If]an Llwyd ('o wain Eingian'), Hywel Cilan, Edwart Urien, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Rhys Cain, Lewis Trefnant, Matthew Brwmffild, James Dwnn, Ieuan Dew Brydydd, Heilyn Fardd, Huw Machno, Guto'r Glyn, etc. ; a description of Britain based on the early chronicles; the triads of Dyfnwal Moelmud; etc.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
A transcript by David Richards ('Dafydd Ionawr') of a letter sent 23 July 1767 from Brunswick, Virginia by Goronwy Owen to Richard Morris, London, and also of the elegy on Lewis Morris which accompanied it; a sketch, made for W[illiam] W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne, 1839, of the seal of the Corporation of Harlech, 1559.
Owen, Goronwy, 1723-1769?
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Transcripts of letters, 1816-1818, written to relatives in Merionethshire by David Jones (Albany, New York), John Richards (Johnsburgh, New York), Hugh and Catherine Thomas (Trenton, Oneida) and W. Thomas (Utica), and a transcript of part of a letter from David Richard, with notes by Dr Henry Owen, Llwyngwril and Dolgelley.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Papers relating to Mary Jones, Llanfihangel y Pennant, Merionethshire and her journey on foot to Bala in 1800 to obtain a Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles, who was afterwards one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society. They include the original manuscript and draft copies of Robert Oliver Rees: Mary Jones, y Gymraes fechan heb yr un Beibl, a sefydliad y Feibl Gymdeithas ... (Dolgellau, 1879), press cuttings containing reviews and correspondence relating to the work and to the truth of the story, a short biographical note on Mary Jones, and letters, including two from D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh to Edward Griffith, 1909.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
An account book kept by Lewis Oliver, 'Treasurer to the Trustees of the Turnpike Roads in the Dolgelley and Mowddwy districts', 1836-1852.
Lewis Oliver.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Miscellaneous notes by Edward Griffith, including extracts from the seventeenth century memorandum book of Lewis Owen, Peniarth and from Pant Philip and other deeds, also from addresses given at religious meetings, together with notes on Calvinistic Methodism in the Dolgelley and Bala districts, on the Merionethshire Quakers and their pedigrees, etc.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Oliver Rees, including papers relating to the visit of the Cambrian Archaeological Association to Dolgellau, 1850, fragments in Breton, etc.
Robert Oliver Rees and others.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Miscellanea, mainly in the hand of Edward Griffith, and including pedigrees of families in the Dolgelley district; an abstract of the will of David ap Tuder Owen of Mallwyd and the Inner Temple, 27 August 1577; an appeal by Congregational ministers in Monmouthshire - Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd') and Moses Ellis being among the signatories - to ministers of Welsh churches in the United States of America urging them to endeavour to avert war between Britain and the United States over the Oregon boundary question; an essay on the agriculture of Merionethshire submitted for competition at the Dolgelley New Year's Day Eisteddfod, 1878; etc.
Edward Griffith and others.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Notes by Edward Griffith on the Chatham Street, Liverpool Welsh Calvinistic church controversy, also on Cadwaladr Jones ('yr Hen Weinidog'), Evan Herbert, etc., together with extracts from deeds relating to property in Dolgelley.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Notes by Edward Griffith on seventeenth century landowners in the Dolgellau district, the social and religious history of Dolgellau, etc.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Papers of Lewis Williams, Llanfachreth, one of Thomas Charles's itinerant schoolmasters. They include lists of pupils attending his school at Dolgelley, 1815 and 1817, a copy of the rules and regulations of a school which he kept at Dolgelley, 1822, and lists of books supplied for these and other Sunday and day schools in Merionethshire; letters to Lewis Williams from Joshua Bywater (Barmouth), 1812, and Edward Pugh (Dolgelley), 1821, and to Edward Griffith from D. Charles Evans (Menai Bridge), 1886; notes by Robert Oliver Rees; papers relating to Evan Owen, Pant Phillip, including his certificate of ordination, 1720; etc.
Lewis Williams and others.
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Press cuttings of letters, reviews, poetry, etc. contributed to various newspapers by Evan Jones '(Ieuan Gwynedd'), together with obituary notices, appreciations, etc.
'Ieuan Gwynedd' and others.
Pedigrees and parish registers,
Part of Edward Griffith manuscripts
Pedigrees of the families of Tudder of Cefnrowen, Dolgellau, of which Edward Griffith was the direct heir, and of Gruffydd ap Adda of Ddol Goch; the will, 1838, and codicil thereto, 1839, of William Pughe, rector of Mallwyd; transcripts from the parish registers of Dolgelley.