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Notes on Welsh place names by Meredith J. Hughes, arranged alphabetically, with extracts from Welsh poetry.

Poetry and hymns by 'Rhuddenfab'.

Original hymns and poems and some translations.

Hymns and secular poems, including some 'englynion'.

Notebook of Daniel Evans containing arithmetical problems and exercises; farming and other accounts and memoranda, 1810-1833, including details of the Militia Society established at Pencarreg, 1810 (ff. 71, 72 recto-verso) and a survey of farms in the parish of Pencarreg, 1816 (ff. 73 verso-4 verso); recipes; and Welsh poetry and accounts in the hand of Evan Evans.

An account by Robert John Griffith, Y Fron, Nant Peris, co. Caernarfon, of his voyage to Melbourne, 26 September - 3 November 1913, together with a few accounts, 1911 (ff. 1 verso-2, 69 verso) and transcripts of poetry.

Great Exhibition Almanack .... 1851, used by Thomas Owens, mariner, of Bryngwallter, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, to record entries concerning his voyages; extracts from the log of the SS Great Britain on voyages from Melbourne to Liverpool (inverted text ff. 29 verso-31, 54 verso-6); transcripts of carols and other verse, including 'Hanes ail fordaith y Brig Albion i'r America' (ff. 2-16; see also NLW MSS 9383A, 21965A); and miscellaneous notes and accounts.

A photostat facsimile of MS 183 in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. The original manuscript is a volume written, for the most part, at Lleweni, Denbighshire, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and containing, among other things, autograph poems by a number of bards to members of the Salusbury family of Lleweni, these poems having been entered in the volume by the bards themselves on their periodical 'clera' visits.
Among the poems are 'cywyddau' and 'awdlau', some of them written to 'Sion Salusburi Escwiair wŷr ac aer Sr. Shion Salusburi Marchog vrddol o Leweni a Siamberlen Gwynedd' and dated 1593, 1607, and 1608, by Simwnt Fychan, Sion Mawddwy, Sion Tudur, Huw Machno, Wiliam Cynwal, Sion Phylip, Robert Ifan, Gruffudd Hafren, Edward Urien, Gruffudd Phylip, Sion Cain, Sion Evans, R[oger] Kyffin, Tomos Penllyn, Robert Llyn, Rhisiart Phylip, Huw Pennant, Rhys Cain, Rees ap John, and William Mathe. Among the prose contents are the following: '... note of weights taken out of the Method of Phisicke'; 'Certaine [medicinal] receites for my Honorable good friende Sr John Salusbury Knight', followed by miscellaneous culinary, household, and medicinal recipes; copies of letters from Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of Wales, and his wife to their son, (Sir) Philip Sidney, of 'A Letter of the Lord Keapers to the Earle of Essex, Earle Marshall of Englande', of 'The Earle Marshall his answere to the Lorde Keaper', of a letter of Sir Walter Raleigh, and of a letter of King Charles I (from Ludlow Castle, September 4, 1625); and a copy of the general pardon granted by James I, July 24, 1603.

Miscellaneous papers in Welsh and English, 1822-[c.1950], mainly of Merthyr Tudful interest, accumulated by Elias Thomas, comprising poems and essays by his great-grandfather Rowland Thomas ('Idris Ddu'), his grandfather, William R. Thomas, and others, including an essay on the origin of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks by Rowland Thomas, with a translation of the same by Thomas Stephens (1821-75) of Merthyr; draft letters, articles and notes by Thomas Stephens; printed rules, 1846, of 'Cymdeithas Cadarn Graig y Cymry', Merthyr; and miscellaneous notes and press cuttings.

A volume which belonged in 1791 to Evan Thomas, who is said to have been superintendent of the Penrhyn Quarry, Caernarvonshire, and afterwards to Michal Prichard and others. It contains 'Carol plygain', 'Cerdd Newydd o Gwynfan y Bardd au Berwig wedi Colli ei Wallt mewn Clefyd ...' by David Jones, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, 'Carol yw ganu ar agoriad y Melinydd ...' by Gryffydd Williams, etc.

'Cywyddau' by Huw Morus, Edmwnd Prys, Sion Tudur, Edward Morus, and Wiliam Cynwal; englynion, short stanzas, and extracts from 'cywyddau'.

A collection, by David Davies, of poems in Welsh and English.

A commonplace book containing poetry in English and Welsh composed and transcribed by David Davies; copies of correspondence, testimonials, etc., 1862-1875.

Transcripts of 'cywyddau' etc., by Bedo Hafesb, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llewelyn, and others, together with translations of some poems; a list, compiled by Robert Stephens, of poems by Bedo Hafesb; and letters to Gwrtheyrn from Robert Stephens.

'Traethawd ar Farddoniaeth Arwyddfeirddiol Cymru', awarded a prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod, 1845.

'Cofiant, ynghyd a gweithiau barddonol, y deweddar Mr. [James] Watkin Davies (Watcyn Rhys y Gwaudd), Ystradfellte', written by 'Eryr' for the Pontneddfechan eisteddfod, 1910, with transcripts of additional poems and some letters relating to the poet.

Adjudications on essays and poems submitted for competition at the Ebenezer, Aberafan, eisteddfod, 1856.

A small notebook (32 pp.) containing an essay on searching the scriptures ('Tyraethawd [sic] ar chwilio yr ysgrythyrau') partly in the form of a dialogue between 'T.C.II.' and T.g.f.', with some hymn stanzas, a prayer and lines in the 'cywydd' metre, by Robert Jones., Criccieth.

Exercise book, [c. 1903]-[c. 1904], of Gwen John containing notes on art history and related subjects together with transcripts of verse and prose in English, Welsh and Romani.

Sermons written by Benjamin Jones (1756-1823), Congregational minister, Pwllheli, and preached at various places in Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, etc.; poems, including 'Can Sion Llywelin ar y chwain y Gwybed ar Clêr', 'Can ar yr Athrawon sy'n mynd allan ir Byd', and 'Annerch caredigol im Brodyr sydd yn mynd dan enw Methodist'; 'Catalogue of Books at Abergavenny and Elsewhere'; etc.