- NLW MS 936C
- Ffeil
- [1841] x [1875]
An address on the antiquities of Merthyr Tydfil and neighbourhood, with a note on Arthen, son of Brychan Brycheiniog.
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).
Material relating to Glamorgan
Miscellaneous material, including press cuttings, collected for a history of Glamorgan.
Reviews and other press notices of the second edition (1876) of The Literature of the Kymry.
Archaeological notes and papers
Miscellaneous notes and papers mainly relating to archaeological matters in Wales and Ireland.
Transcripts, [c. 1850] (watermark 1848), of poems by Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, printed in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, I (London, 1801).
An essay entitled 'Prophwydoliaeth'.
Miscellaneous notes, extracts and statistics relating to the Saxon element in Britain.
A collection consisting mainly of essays and literary extracts by Stephens. Some of the works were submitted as competitive pieces at eisteddfodau.
Stephens, Thomas, 1821-1875
The original manuscript of Stephens's Welsh version and English translation of 'Y Gododin' of Aneurin Gwawdrydd [6th century], with an introduction and explanatory notes, as submitted for competition at the Cymreigyddion y Fenni eisteddfod held at Abergavenny, 1853, together with adjudications and emendations in the hand of Dr Meyer; 'englynion'; letters; and press cuttings.
Breton verses, in the form of a dialogue between Breton people and Welsh people, sung at a meeting of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society by Count Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué [1815-1895], with a Welsh translation by Stephens.
'The History of the Town and Castle of Cardiff', written for the Cardiff eisteddfod, 1851; press cuttings; and maps of the railways and docks at Cardiff.
'Traethawd yn cynnwys Hanes ymbleidiadau pendefigion Cymru yn y Rhyfeloedd cartrefol rhwng teuluoedd York a Lancaster'.
A draft of an essay entitled 'History of the Bards' which contains an account of the bards of Britain from the earliest times to the sixth century and which was awarded a prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod, 1853.
A translation by Stephens of a treatise on the position occupied by Welsh among languages of Celtic origin.
Letters, 1840-1860, mainly to Stephens from the 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni' circle of writers and poets and also others, including Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué, Albert Schulz ('San Marte'), John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'), Robert John Pryse ('Gweirydd ap Rhys') and E. A. Freeman; and a few circular letters, etc.
A copy of Archaeologia Cambrensis, April 1876, containing a review of the second edition (1876) of The Literature of the Kymry.
A memorandum book kept by Stephens, [c. 1840]-1851, containing miscellaneous notes and accounts, including notes of the meetings of the Merthyr Tydfil Board of Guardians and Monsieur Henri Martin's address at the Aberdare eisteddfod, 1851.
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Merthyr Tydfil Subscription Library, of which Stephens was secretary, and to the Merthyr Tydfil eisteddfod, 1856; a letter from William Roberts ('Nefydd') to Stephens, 1859; addresses to Lord Dynevor and William Crawshay; press cuttings.