W. Williams to [Taliesin Williams]. He hopes to see the addressee here and in restored health on the evening preceding Christmas Day. In a letter Sir Thomas Philipps says he is about to publish through his private press a volume of Glamorgan pedigrees. Remarking at the long delay in the appearance of Mr Meyer's essay. Mentioning a little volume of poems of considerable merit just published by a (Scottish) weaver of the name of Thom.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr. Mr Hayward of Neath will sell (if he can) 12 copies of Colyn Dolphyn without making any deduction. Telling the addressee to send Mr H. a dozen immediately, carriage paid. His belief, if the spirits of the departed have any cognizance, etc., 'that the distinguished spirit of Iolo would hover gladdened round his son when occupied in arranging what his hand had written.' Discusses the life of Iestyn.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Is ashamed to say there is not one of the addressee's interesting questions that he is able to answer. Place-names, old customs, etc. He has written all he knows about the De Avens and will begin with Einon, but he wants Yorke's tribes and Roberts's Mona Antiqua. Does the addressee think he can come here before sending his essay in to the judge?
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Has the addressee had an opportunity of speaking to Mr Edward Thomas about coming here? Mr Evans of Cardiff has written wishing him to ask the addressee for some charter in his possession respecting Landaff. Would the following be of any use to the addressee respecting 'Dydd Calan'? Discusses the notes to their poems as an appendix to the life of Iestyn.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. He will be most happy to see the addressee on the day he mentions. A tradition concerning Maescwnrig and Maesgwyn, and an addition to it (concerning Maeslwnc). Near Sovlen castle is a place called 'hên gogofau'. On May 22 he will be happy to attend the meeting at Merthyr. He wrote last night to Lady Hall about the conduct of the Abergavenny Committee in withholding the addressee's treatise after their promise.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Tegid did not know till last week that any prize was offered on the Wars of the Roses - how was the advertisement so long delayed? Has the addressee received his Coelbren from Abergavenny? He perceives by some questions in his (letter) just received that the addressee has not had time to read two long sheets he sent about six weeks ago. A conjecture of his own which he omitted (in the papers). 'Blaengwrach chapel has nothing remarkable in the way of monuments.' The names of the Bards who have contributed to the Greal. Mynydd Soflen. The addressee should leave off dandy-pockets: has he lost also the paper on which were written the eight reasons for inferring that Cromwell was one of this family? Did he obtain any definite answer from Mr Traherne? As soon as his brother returns he will send another copy of the pedigree.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Asking him to use his influence with the Silurian to publish the foregoing, if possible as a paragraph - the addressee has seen by the London papers that a deputation from Liverpool has waited on Lord Melbourne on behalf of the Archdeacon, and the writer hears another in London is preparing to do so. He had a letter from the Archdeacon this morning - in his answer he told him who Cyngar is. Poets' wishes and the writer's own.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Acknowledging the addressee's kind letter and the printed programme. His object in again troubling him is occasioned by a passage in the addressee's letter which speaks of an intention of exposing Cawrdaf, and real regard towards him (TW) dictates it. 'Ab Iolo's name must be linked with his native county and the country of Iolo Morgannwg ...'. 'No one as yet who has written on Welsh subjects has ever referred to their Brethren on the continent.' Tegid rejoices to hear of the addressee's intention to write - suggesting that the addressee should write to Tegid a week before starting for London.
Thanking the addressee for three books received last night. Asking whether certain things (specified) would do to publish for the Society. He hopes it is a translation of his Coelbren that the addressee is publishing, for in a second volume of Britannia after the Romans recently out, called the Neo-Druidic Heresy, the thing is called in question and challenged. A capital opportunity to come forth suddenly with a reply to its assailants: the anonymous author is also disposed to under-rate the addressee's father. Observations concerning the author, whoever he is. The addressee has of late put forth his energies, has arranged and bound his MSS, etc., and here is an opportunity of entering the arena of literary fame.
W. Williams to [Taliesin Williams]. The circumstances which put them in mourning. The sequel to Brit.: after Rom. - when the addressee is about to write his preface he may make some cursory remarks on that as well as the preceding vol. His success in that will be a means of obtaining subscribers to the history of Glamorgan - he should begin soon, so as if possible to go to press in 1845. WW's sister has accidentally ascertained the high antiquity of one of the tunes copied by the addressee's father. Sir Saml Meyrick's desire to know something of the biography of Lewis Dwn. In reading Rhys goch's poems one is reminded of a singular custom which the addressee should mention in his history of Glam., 'that people of station were in the habit of meeting to carouse (ar y cruws) at small village taverns of at one in a secluded situation where they would remain for days'.
W. Williams to [Taliesin Williams]. As unpleasant rumours have reached this place of the disorderly state of the populace of Merthyr he would feel obliged if the addressee would inform him per return of post whether he thinks any outbreak is likely to take place. 'The system now adopted by the chartists seems to be, to attack insulated houses, it is therefore necessary that persons so situated should be on the alert'.
W. Williams to [Taliesin Williams]. Begging his acceptance of two hares. He hopes the addressee's health is improved. The best way for him to finish the labour he has in hand.
[W. Williams] to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe lands, Merthyr. The birth of a son at Aberpergwm. He would much prefer the addressee's private congratulation to any public notice being taken of the event. An announcement for insertion in the Guardian.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. What he thinks Ysbidinongil means. Is sorry he cannot leave Mrs Williams so soon or he would have been happy to have met the addressee at Llanover. Lady Hall and Mr Bunsen are with WW for having the Myvyrian translated, Mr Price opposed - Rees of Landovery is also with them. He wishes, when there (? at Llanover) that the addressee would take an opportunity of advocating their plan. Is glad the addressee is relieved from the Secretaryship of the Club - nothing ought to interfere with his history for the next four years except his professional avocations. Iestyn's sons . Telling the addressee when at Abergavenny to claim his debt from the Society.
W. Williams to [Taliesin Williams]. Is rejoiced to hear the addressee is so much better - he always observes that when the addressee changes the air, a change for the better immediately ensues. The low and confined situation of the addressee's house - telling him to try to move to a better situation. Mrs Williams desires him to request the addressee's company here on Saturday before Whitsunday. He wishes exceedingly to know the names of the Druidical cylchau, or cycles. Asking him to try to persuade his friend Mr Evans of Caerphilly to insert in a notebook all the information he has collected about that vicinity. The persecuted Edward's retreat.
W. Williams to [Taliesin Williams]. After a considerable absence from home he last night found the addressee's letter and enclosures. An invitation - the writer would then try to suggest anything which his most limited knowledge of heraldry enables him . 'It is a pity that our chroniclers personified Lleon gawr.' The Archdeacon has at the eleventh hour assented to WW's proposition of writing a history of the Celts, which he declined eight years ago.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams. He begins to suspect that many things which have been hitherto quietly acquiesced in with respect to Glamorgan history, will on further enquiry be shaken - an example. How he was unable to go to Swansea to David Jenkin's sale - he hopes the MSS will not be dispersed and go out of the county. He received a day or two ago a letter from Abergavenny in which complaint was made that the Coelbren has been retained long over the stipulated time - could not his son help him in copying it?.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Commending the addressee's essay and his style in Welsh. Criticism of the North Wales style. A note for translation into Gwenthwyssaeg. Mention of Blaengwrach chapel.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr. [...]. He thinks it would not be amiss [if the addressee] were to look at Rees's topography of Glamorgan[shire] before he finishes - the rational conjecture is that Iestyn was descended from Caractacus. Can the addressee tell him whether it is in the laws of Howel or where that severe penalties are imposed on the Arwyddfardd for falsification or negligence.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Wellington Street, Merthyr. By this day's mail he returns Turner's Vindication with best thanks. He has forwarded Mr Price's excellent remarks on Mic Dinbych to the Archdeacon - it is the best thing he (WW) has seen from Mr Price's pen. When the addressee has time to state his reasons he will be glad to transmit them (? to the Archdeacon).
