Dangos 12839 canlyniad

A copy of an Inscription to Edward Prichard, rector of Flimston, (d. 22 June 1742) and Margaret, his wife (buried 19 March 1707/8), with a note by E. W. On the dorse are some Welsh stanzas (crossed out).

The wording of an inscription marking the burial-place of Margaret, wife of the Revd John Edwardes, rector of an unspecified parish, and daughter of the Revd William Willis, late rector of the came parish (d. 27 Feb. 1809, aged 34). (Not in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg.)

A letter to Mr Urban answering the observations of Philistor in (?) The Gentleman's Magazine for June and July. Reference to Mr Evans's Collection [i.e. ? Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764)]. The writer maintains that the difference between the Welsh dialects is not as great as between the dialects of any two English counties, even the adjoining ones of Kent and Middlesex where he has at several times resided many years of his life. He is by birth a Southwalian, but has resided a considerable time in N. Wales, in every county of it, and he dares (to) assert that he knows something of the matter. The N. & S. Walians never experience the least difficulty in conversing with each other. 'The difficulty of translating Taliesin &c. arises from the great number of obsolete words not understood in any part of Wales with regard to the structure of his Language it is purely according to the Silurian, an old Welsh Bard of the 15th century says that Taliesin was born in Tir Iarll.' In the autograph of E. W. In the margin are the words 'on Pinkerton'. Torn.

An extract headed 'North Briton. No. 66. a Letter signed I. M.', and beginning, 'Mr Macpherson calls the letter a dull performance. ...... Mr M. says that he is known to the world as the Translator of Ossian's Poems ...'.

An account (by E. W.) of the Welsh versification and music, begun at No. 1 Star Court, Chancery Lane and added to at a later date (after 1812). Reference to violations of the Bardic vow.

'Tribanau' (crossed out) attributed to 'Gwilym Dafydd o Aber Cwm y Fuwch ym Morganwg.' The first two are wanting. On the reverse side of part of the sheet is a note beginning, 'Dafydd ap Gwilym has been idiotically ...-- termed the Welsh Ovid ...'. Torn.

Observations by Iolo Morganwg on departing from nature in poetry by the use of ancient mythology. In his view, 'the Language that brings our ideas nearest to nature is doubtless the best, and nothing can be more evident than that, in many instances, the learned languages lead us out of the road of nature, let this be instanced in Poetry ...'.

A note by E. W. explaining why he notices none otherwise than by their proper names only. (Mention of Owen Jones, Wm Owen, etc.)

A note (crossed out) under Suddas-Judas: 'William Owen, a chydag ef Owen Myfyr, a ellir yn gyfiawn eu cymharu a Suddas, pob un, megis a chyfarch teg a chusan, yn bradychu.' This is followed by a list of 24 (?) MSS, concluding, 'and if you had continued your cunning a little, Twrog, and a most interesting MS, the Y[n]iales, with the whole of the Barddas of Llywelyn Sion Trïoedd Bonedd &c. would have been sent you.'

Plans or outlines of poems. No. 20 is headed 'Ode to Midnight, by E. W.', while No. 22 contains an outline (in English) headed, 'Cwynfan Cybydd ar ei wely angau' and extracts 'from Langhorne'. No. 23 in endorsed, 'For 2d. Edition of my Poems'.