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Notebooks and other volumes containing Welsh poetry, including drafts, fragments and notes, mostly by or in the hand of Taliesin ab Iolo (T6/1-22).
Seven volumes (T6/16-22) appear to been used by school pupils to copy out English poetry, later re-purposed by Taliesin for his own Welsh poetry.

Welsh poetry, including drafts, fragments and notes, mostly by or in the hand of Taliesin ab Iolo, comprising: loose poems which are either complete or relatively substantial (T7/1), with two further bundles of more fragmentary poems, drafts and notes (T7/2-3); three bundles of loose poetry retained in original order (T7/4-6); and items in hands other than that of Taliesin ab Iolo (T7/7).

Poetry by David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) and notes for his biography mainly by John Jones, Borthwnog, Llanelltyd, John Williams, Dyffryn and Robert Oliver Rees.

Poetical compositions, 1824-1827, submitted for competition at 'Eisteddfod y Fottas' (the Boot Eisteddfod), held by Cymdeithas Cadair Merthyr Tydfil at the Boot Inn (Arwydd y Fottas), Merthyr Tydfil, together with some adjudications (T9/1, 2 folders). Also included are copies, 1823-1827, of posters advertising the eisteddfodau (T9/2).
Taliesin Williams was secretary to Cymdeithas Cadair Merthyr Tydfil. Some of the compositions were printed in Awenyddion Morganwg; neu, Farddoniaeth Cadair Merthyr Tudful (Merthyr Tydfil, [1826]).

Poetry and prose pieces, mainly drafts, by John Ceiriog Hughes (ff. 5 verso-6 verso, 11 recto-verso, 25 verso, 27 verso-52), written in a volume previously used as a ledger, probably by a Yorkshire or Lancashire manufacturer or trader, 1833-1850, and containing particulars of financial and trade transactions and details of wages paid to weavers, 1834 (ff. 2 verso-30 verso).
Ceiriog subsequently repurposed the volume as a scrap book, pasting in numerous press cuttings and obscuring the original text. At NLW the cuttings were floated off and mounted in separate volumes (see NLW MSS 4552-3D).

Account book, 1840-1851, of [the Rev. Lewis Richards] of Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire.
The volume also contains a few memoranda, as well as an 'Englyn i Barlwr y Parchg L. Richards' by Ieuan Cadfan [?Evan Breece], dated 6 January 1844 (inside front cover), and a verse by [John] Black[we]ll (on front flyleaf).

Awdl y Gwanwyn, written by Morris Williams (Nicander) (1809-1874) and sent by him, with a letter, to Ellis Owen, Cefnymeusydd (1789-1868), 1841.

Manuscripts of, and relating to, J. Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog), including manuscript copies of four of his poems ('Ti wyddost beth ddywaid fy nghalon', 'Y Gwely o Gymru', 'Carol Nadolig' and 'Ymadawol Gân'); three Ceiriog letters, comprising two to his parents and one to his sister Jane; letters of Jane Hughes, comprising six to her brother Ceiriog, six to her mother or other members of the family and one to a Miss Roberts; three earlier letters from members of the family in America; manuscript and printed pedigrees; three photographs; etc.

A volume, [19 cent., third ¼], containing a copy of the poem Myfanwy Fychan by John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog) in the author's hand.

Transcripts by Robert Oliver Rees of poetry, letters, etc., by David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) and of poetry by others relating to him and his work.

A volume containing press-cuttings, consisting of adjudications, notes on old Welsh melodies, poems, etc., by Ceiriog; notes relating to Brinley Richards; accounts of various eisteddfodau, etc. There is one autograph poem entitled 'The train'. There are a few other papers including a telegram, 17 December 1855, asking Ceiriog to compose four lines for a memorial card from [?Roger] Edwards, Mold, a portion of a letter from Ceiriog to 'Alaw' and three autograph verses, [1860x1879].

A portfolio (T. J. & J. Smith's Improved Manifold Writer) containing two copy books of letters and poems by John Ceiriog Hughes, 1857-1860.

Miscellaneous papers kept by John Ceiriog Hughes comprising draft poetry, adjudications, correspondence, notes, and accounts; lawsuit papers, including a draft summons to Isaac Clarke, printer and publisher, of Ruthin, 1862, concerning inter alia the copyright of Oriau'r Bore; proof sheets of John Ceiriog Hughes's application and testimonials for an appointment as commercial traveller, 1871, and of the prospectus of the Mynyddog Memorial appeal, 1877; and a small poster advertising meetings of 'Cymdeithas Lenyddol Gymreig Manceinion', 1858, including lectures by John Hughes (Ceiriog) and William Williams (Creuddynfab).

A copy of John Ceiriog Hughes, Oriau'r Hwyr (Ruthin, [1860]), with press cuttings of reviews on blank leaves bound in at the end of the volume.

A volume, 1860-1862, in the autograph of John Ceiriog Hughes, formerly bearing the title 'Ysgriblau Rhif 3', containing the following poems [titles or first lines]: 'Ryw frawd o Sais oedd Laurence Lowe'; 'Yn araf y cerddasom'; 'Ar y dolydd eang'; 'Calon Wladgar ydyw Calon Dyn'; 'Tua Thegid Dewch'; 'Ar Noson galan Gauaf'; 'Mae'r eira'n dod'; 'Mae llawer ffordd i lofruddio dyn'; 'Cath Modryb Mari'; 'Ymgom' - [Pobol Ty nesaf]; 'Wrth weled fy enw mewn argraff'; 'Aeth Owain Glyndwr ar ei daith'; Penillion; 'Bore ddoe pan oeddwn allan'; 'Mae gan i ac mae gan lawer'; 'Dywedwyd wrthyf gan gyfreithiwr'; 'Difyrwch gwyr Dyfi a gwyr Dinas Bran'; 'Clywais edliw ar y pentan'; 'Main a mwyn yw min menywod'; 'Bran y mor yw'r deryn dua'; 'Mae'r hen eisteddfod eto'n fyw'; 'Gwn am wraig yn Nghymru wen'; 'Mae Llyn Tegid meddynt hwy'; 'Mae dy wraig di mewn caledi'; 'Er i Lewis Morys Mon'; 'Anhawdd iawn yw penderfynu'; 'Iaith fy mam, wyf fi am'; 'Bum am bedair blwydd ar hugain'; 'Gadael y Tir'; 'Lili'r dwr a gar y llynoedd'; 'Hir bu'r bachau cig yn weigion'; 'Serch-hudol yw, pobpeth sy'n byw'; 'Calon drom a meddwl isel'; 'I gadw'r iaith Gymraeg yn bur'; 'Y postman sydd yn dyfod'; 'Alun Mabon'; 'Ffarwel iti Gymru fad'; 'Mae gennyf bedwar bachgen'; 'Roedd pedair geneth fechan'; 'Castell Conwy'; 'Hen frenin symyl oedd Morgan Hen'; 'Hir oes i'r Frenhines'; and 'Castell Caernarfon'; and a draft of a letter relating to the publishing of 'Alun Mabon' in Oriau'r Bore (Ruthin, 1862).

A group of papers of John Ceiriog Hughes and his family, 1860-[?1933], including some nineteen letters, 1860-1861 and undated, from Ceiriog to his wife Annie, shortly before and after their marriage (ff. 1-28); six letters and fragments written by Ceiriog, 1886-1887 and undated, including one, 22 January 1887, to his daughter Delia Ceiriog Evans and her husband, and one, 3 March 1887, to Richard Bennett (incomplete) (ff. 29-38); four letters from Annie Ceiriog Hughes, [1860x1861], three addressed to Ceiriog and one to her mother (ff. 39-47); miscellaneous correspondence addressed to Ceiriog (ff. 48-50), including an envelope from [Richard Davies (Mynyddog)], addressed in verse (postmark 15 February 1870) (f. 48) and fragments of letters containing the autographs of William Williams (Carw Coch), Trecynon, [John Jones] (Mathetes) and Thomas Jones (f. 50); miscellaneous items in Ceiriog's hand (ff. 51-53), including a holograph copy of the words to 'Anthem Tywysog Cymru' (f. 53, together with an explanatory letter from Delia, [?1932], f. 54); correspondence, 1905, between R. Williams, Celynog, the Rev. R. Peris Williams, Wrexham, and Mrs. [Annie] Ceiriog Hughes and Mrs. Delia Evans relating to the purchase of certain Ceiriog books and manuscripts from R. Peris Williams, together with a letter to Mrs. Evans from John Ballinger, 1906, and a copy of a letter, dated 14 September 1913, from A[nnie] Ceiriog Hughes to [Charles] Tudor Hughes, [Hughes & Son, Wrexham], concerning the same manuscripts (ff. 57-70); eisteddfod programmes and other ephemera, 1883-1886 (ff. 72-76); photographs of 'Nain Penybryn' [?Phoebe Hughes], Ceiriog, and Annie's grave (ff. 77-79); and cuttings of newspaper articles relating to Ceiriog, 1907-[?1933] (ff. 80-83).

A volume, 1860-1867, containing holograph poetry by T. Glwysfryn Hughes, together with a number of press cuttings of his poetry, published in Yr Herald Cymraeg, 1864-1867.

A volume containing poetry, [c. 1863], in Welsh, by Richard R. Williams, Llangollen.

A copy-book, [c. 1864], in the hand of William Thomas (Islwyn), containing adjudications in Welsh on four poetical competitions at an unspecified eisteddfod (ff. 3 verso-24 verso), including writing an epic elegy for John Robert Pryse (Golyddan) (ff. 3 verso-6).
There are also notes on epic poems (f. 1 recto-verso).

A collection of press cuttings of adjudications, poems, and obituary notices of John Ceiriog Hughes.