- NLW MS 929C
- Ffeil
- 1840
An essay entitled 'Iestyn ap Gwrgant', which was awarded a prize at the Liverpool eisteddfod, 1840.
An essay entitled 'Iestyn ap Gwrgant', which was awarded a prize at the Liverpool eisteddfod, 1840.
Miscellaneous notes, essays and extracts from printed sources relating to oriental literature, the Scriptures, education, Jesus College (Oxford), printing, Prussian funeral ceremonies, the decimal system, etc.; a letter, 1856, from Dr William Price; an account of a tour in Brittany, 1829, by Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc'); a list of members and rules of 'The Cambrian Society'; maps; prospectuses of publications; etc.
Material collected for a history of the literature of Wales, including a draft of a portion of The Literature of the Kymry (1849).
Press cuttings containing obituary notices of Stephens.
Miscellaneous material relating to eisteddfodau, including an 'englyn' to 'Carnhuanawc' (Thomas Price), a prize poem by 'Talhaiarn' (John Jones) entitled 'Sali Smith', extracts from speeches at Carmarthen eisteddfod, 1823, and Cardiff eisteddfod, 1834, and adjudications by Stephens on essays submitted at eisteddfodau held at Aberafan and Aberdare.
'Madoc: An Essay on the Discovery of America ...'
The original manuscript of 'Madoc: An Essay on the Discovery of Amercia by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century', submitted for competition at the Llangollen eisteddfod, 1858, but not awarded the prize because, although adjudged the best essay in the competition, it did not support the belief that America had been discovered by Madog.
'Madoc: An Essay on the Discovery of America ..'
Notes, press cuttings and letters, 1858-1859, relating to the adjudication on Stephens's essay.
Some two hundred autograph letters, 1845-1876, to Stephens from a large number of individuals prominent in the life of Wales, including H[enry] A[ustin] Bruce, David Charles, Trefecca, Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), Lord Dynevor, Lewis Edwards, Bala, D. Silvan Evans, Thomas Gee, Lady Charlotte Guest, Lady Hall, David Howell (Llawdden), J. Spinther James, John Jones (Talhaiarn), W. Basil Jones and Henri Martin.
'The Names of Places in South Wales, to illustrate The History, Local Traditions, and Legendary lore of that part of the Principality, taken from the Note-Book of A Rambling Pedlar ...', with additional notes, press cuttings and a list of places mentioned in Liber Landavensis.
An essay entitled 'On the Question whether the Druids sacrificed human beings', written for a Cymreigyddion meeting at Swansea, 1841.
'An Essay on the evils arising from killing salmon out of season and when full of spawn', written for a competition organised at Merthyr Tydfil by Thomas Hennay, 1844, together with a Welsh translation, the rules relating to the competition and a copy of an Act relating to salmon fisheries passed by Parliament in May 1843.
An essay entitled 'Dyfodiad Fitzhamon i Forgannwg'.
Anerchiad ar addysg grefyddol i blant
'Anerchiad ar y lles a ddeillia i blant y dosbarthau gweithiol oddiwrth ddyfal ofaliad am eu haddysgiadau crefyddol ...' .
Barddoniaeth arwyddfarddol Cymru
'Traethawd ar Farddoniaeth Arwyddfeirddiol Cymru', awarded a prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod, 1845.
A prize essay at the Abergavenny eisteddfod, 1841, entitled 'Hanes Lleoedd Swydd Ceredigion i ba rai y perthyn neb rhyw Hengofion chwedleuol neu Hanesyddol neu enwau pa rai a arwyddocant eu bod yn Sefyllfaoedd neu rhyw Ddygwyddiadau nodedig', with a short adjudication by Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc').
'An address to the working classes on the benefits of education'.
'The Working Men of Wales ...'
An essay entitled 'The Working Men of Wales, compared with those of England, Scotland and Ireland', with an appendix of statistics relating to population, moral conditions, etc. in England and Wales, 1842-1843, and which was awarded a prize at the Porthmadog eisteddfod, 1852.
An address on the antiquities of Merthyr Tydfil and neighbourhood, with a note on Arthen, son of Brychan Brycheiniog.
Two volumes containing an essay entitled 'The History of Wales from the earliest period to The Present Time with an Introduction containing the history of The Migrations of the Kymry prior to their arrival in The Isle of Britain', awarded a prize at the Rhuddlan royal eisteddfod, 1850; and the draft of the introduction and a portion of the first chapter, with the adjudication, additional notes and a letter from Rowland Williams, one of the adjudicators.
Page-proofs of the second edition of Thomas Stephens: The Literature of the Kymry (London, 1876).