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- 1877-1908
Thirteen original awdlau and other poems, 1877-1908, by Coslett Coslett (Carnelian), Pontypridd.
Carnelian, 1834-1910
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Thirteen original awdlau and other poems, 1877-1908, by Coslett Coslett (Carnelian), Pontypridd.
Carnelian, 1834-1910
Part of Robert Jones Derfel MSS,
Manuscript and printed poems by R. J. Derfel, and other miscellaneous items, 1858-1913, including a photograph of him, 1902.
R. J. Derfel and others.
Part of Robert Jones Derfel MSS,
An album containing pasted-in cuttings from newspapers and journals and other miscellaneous material by, or relating to, R. J. Derfel, 1855-1904, including manuscript and printed poetry; letters and cards to R. J. Derfel, including a letter, n.d., from Eliseus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'); and programmes and leaflets.
R. J. Derfel and others.
Cyfansoddiadau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Wrecsam
Compositions submitted to the crown competition (MS 23052D), the chair competition (MS 23053D) and the other poetry competitions (MS 23054D) at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Wrecsam, 1933. MS 23052D includes a letter from J. Gwili Jenkins, one of the adjudicators (f. 1) and the winning pryddest by Simon B. Jones (ff. 2-12); MS 23053D includes letters from the three adjudicators, T. Gwynn Jones, R. Williams Parry and J. J. Williams, together with copies of the latter two's adjudications (ff. 1-25) and the winning awdl by Edgar Phillips ('Trefin') (ff. 26-34).
Phillips, Edgar, 1889-1962
Autograph poetry by Richard Jones ('Glan Ednant').
Jones, Richard, 1852-1927.
Original manuscripts and typescripts of articles, poems, reviews, correspondence, etc., published in Heddiw, vols. I-VI, 1936-1941.
Manuscripts, typescripts, and press cuttings of poetry, largely in free metres, by John Bryn Evans ('Peiran'), London. The compositions belong approximately to the period 1925-1936. Among the titles are 'Eisteddfod [Genedlaethol] Abertawe 1926', 'Pont ar Fynach (Devil's Bridge)', 'Y Rheidol', 'Yr Ystwyth', 'Nant Peiran', 'Eifion Wyn', 'Aberystwyth', 'Dr. T. Charles Williams', 'Hafod Uchtryd', 'Beriah Gwynfe Evans', 'Yr Athro David Jenkins, Mus. Bac.', 'R. S. Hughes', 'Teifi', 'Strata Florida (Ystrad Fflur)', 'Cadair Idris', 'Sir Ellis Griffith Bart.', 'Islwyn', 'Ceiriog', 'A Tribute to A. G. Prys-Jones', 'Y Prifathro y Dr. Thomas Rees, M.A.', 'In Memory of the late Rev. J. Cynddylan Jones, D.D.', etc.
Evans, John Bryn.
Albums of press cuttings (from the Central Glamorgan Gazette, Chronicle for South and Mid-Glamorgan, Barry Herald, etc.) compiled by 'Ioan Trithyd'. They consist largely of the compiler's own press contributions, in the form of poetry of local interest, 'Llith yr Hen Bacman', 'Llith Wmffra Llwyd', 'Ymweliad a Llanwrtyd', 'Hanes Llantrithyd ...', etc.
Morgan, John, 1830-1930
Part of Meillionog MSS,
Holograph poems, largely in free metre, by R. Elias ('Meillionog'), with critical observations in the hand of 'H. T. F.'. Among the titles are 'Y Bwrdd Fynydd. Table Mountain'; 'Y Gwelliant (Cymdeithas fodolai yn Glandwr, Abertawe, o gylch 1850, i leihau yfed a phuro iaith ac ymadrodd yr aelodau)'; 'Llinellau ar Cadeiriad [sic] Miss Boyd Yn Cape Town. 1921'; 'Duchan Gerdd. Y Chwedleuwr. Eisteddfod Jo[hannes]burg Mai 1908'; 'Cadeiriad Bardd Buddugol Eisteddfod Cape Town 1922'; etc.
Meillionog and others.
Part of Meillionog MSS,
Typescript copies of poems in strict and free metres by R. Elias ('Meillionog'), together with a few emendations in the author's hand. Among the titles are 'Eisteddfod Johannesburg, Mai, 1908. Pryddest - "Cydymdeimlad"'; 'Pryddest - "Paradwys"'; 'Gwymp [sic] Victoria. Y Victoria Falls'; 'Englyn[ion] i Madam C. Novello Davies'; 'I Syr William Thorne' (with an English translation); 'Cyfarchiad I Mr. a Mrs. Gwilym Cleaton Jones, a'u mab bychan Ioan Prisiart, Mowbray' (1908); and 'Cadeiriad Bardd Buddugol Eisteddfod Cape Town, 1922'.
Meillionog.
A scrapbook, compiled by J. W. Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog, and unbound leaves containing holographs, transcripts, and press cuttings of poetry in free and strict metres, 1893-1903 and 1918?, by William (Gwilym) Morgan, quarryman, of Blaenau Ffestiniog, together with adjudications by [Sir] J[ohn] Morris Jones (press cuttings), [Howell Elvet Lewis] ('Elfed') (transcript), etc. MS. 11064 also contains testimonials, 1901, to William Morgan and Mrs Morgan from Robert Roberts, J. P., surgeon, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Reverend W[illiam] P[ari] Hughes, Dolgellau, and Wm. Davies, Junior, Managing Partner, The Diphwys Casson Slate Quarries Company, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the first (and presumably the other two) in support of their candidature for the posts of master and matron of Pwllheli Workhouse; and a holograph letter, 1936, from [Humphrey Jones] ('Bryfdir'), Rhiwbryfdir, to [J. W. Jones], enclosing copies of 'in memoriam' verses to Gwilym Morgan. Included in MS. 11065 is a holograph letter, 1899, from Robert Roberts, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to Gwilym Morgan, with observations on 'englynion' in English by the recipient.
Jones, J. W
Pryddestau T. D. Gwernogle Evans,
Poems, 1907-1930, submitted for competition at various local eisteddfodau, by T. D. Gwernogle Evans.
Evans, T. Gwernogle (Thomas Gwernogle), 1853-1940.
Part of Miscellaneous letters and papers
Copïau, [1920au], mewn llaw anhysbys, o chwe englyn gan Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), sydd yn ddetholiad o'r gerdd 'Addef ac Ymbil' a gyhoeddwyd yn Y Traethodydd, 60 (1905), 89-90 (f. 1 recto-verso). = Copies, [1920s], in an unknown hand, of six englynion by Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), being a selection from the poem entitled 'Addef ac Ymbil', published in Y Traethodydd, 60 (1905), 89-90 (f. 1 recto-verso).
Cynhwysir hefyd y ddau englyn ar garreg ei fedd yn Llan Ffestiniog, sef un o'i waith ei hun, a'r llall o waith Eifion Wyn (f. 1 verso). = Also included are the two englynion inscribed on Elfyn's tombstone at Llan Ffestiniog, one of his own composition, and the other by Eifion Wyn (f. 1 verso).
Elfyn, 1858-1919
Part of Miscellaneous letters and papers
Cerdd gan Crwys yn dwyn y teitl 'Dim Gwaith', wedi ei dyddio 6 Chwefror 1932, ac yn ôl bob tebyg heb ei chyhoeddi. = A poem by Crwys entitled 'Dim Gwaith' ('No Work'), dated 6 February 1932 and apparently unpublished.
Crwys, 1875-1968
Notebook, 1914-1916, kept by Nursing Sergeant Davies of 'C' section of the 130th (St John) Field Ambulance unit, attached to the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army. It includes a diary, November 1914-June 1916 (ff. 1-12), describing duties in Britain before embarkation for France on 3 December 1915, and subsequent activities on the Western Front prior to the Battle of Mametz Wood.
A draft application for an army commission (ff. 45, 46 verso) suggests that Sergeant Davies was a native of Carmarthenshire and a former miner. The notebook also contains medicinal recipes (ff. 13-14, 44 verso, 45-6), ration tables (ff. 8 verso-9, 14), and poetry in both English and Welsh (ff. 22 verso-23, 31-44, 49-53). An additional folio, tipped into the volume (f. 16a), contains further diary entries, October 1916, and suggests the existence of a second volume, subsequently lost.
Part of Miscellaneous letters and papers
An apparently unpublished poem, entitled 'Pwy?' and dated 17 June 1908, by John T. Jôb, being a leaf from the autograph book of Ellen Anne Roberts (later Mrs Emrys Lewis of Creunant, Glamorgan), then of Carneddi, Bethesda, where Jôb was minister of the local chapel and a close neighbour.
Jôb, John T. (John Thomas), 1867-1938.
Part of Miscellaneous letters and papers
A letter, 18 May 1901, in Welsh, from the poet, Ben Bowen, Kimberley, South Africa, to his sister, Ann, and brother-in-law, Jonathan Thomas, including two englynion by Bowen.
Parts of the letter, including the englynion, are published in Ben Bowen yn Neheudir Affrica, ed. by Myfyr Hefin (Llanelli, 1928), pp. 23-24.
Bowen, Ben, 1878-1903
Part of Miscellaneous letters and papers
Postcard, 1939, containing a verse in Welsh, entitled 'In tempore belli', in the hand of T. Gwynn Jones, sent to his neighbours and close friends, Mr and Mrs William Williams, Aberystwyth.
Jones, T. Gwynn (Thomas Gwynn), 1871-1949
Hanes Eglwys Annibynnol Mynydd-bach,
A typescript draft, with manuscript corrections and additions, of an address, dated August 1916, on the history of Mynydd-bach Congregational church, Swansea, author unknown, and including verses by Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) entitled 'Fy Mynyddbach'.
A scrap-book compiled by Laura Pughe (née Parry, 'Meillionen Gwynedd', 1835-1936), Helygog, Brithdir, co. Merioneth, containing poetry, 1856-1936, addressed to herself, her husband Robert Pughe (d. 1882), and their family, including poetry by Morris Davies ('Meurig Ebrill'), Howell Elvet Lewis ('Elfed') and John Owen Williams ('Pedrog'), together with press cuttings and other related items.
Pughe, Laura, 1835-1936