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Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
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Iolo Morganwg MSS

Manuscripts, [16 cent.]-[?1841], mostly collected or written by Iolo Morganwg. They include transcripts of Welsh poetry, pedigrees, grammars, and manuscripts belonging to Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, Lewis Morris, Gwallter Mechain, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Thomas Glyn Cothi, Richard Morris and others; literary papers of Iolo Morganwg, including hymns and psalm-tunes, English and Welsh poetry and Bardic papers; other papers including diaries, memorandum books and notebooks; and accounts of his father, Edward Williams, senior.

Notebooks, financial papers, monumental inscriptions

Notebooks together with financial and other papers of Iolo Morganwg, including notebooks containing memoranda, lists of books, accounts and notes, 1781-1802 (E7/1-5); unbound booklets containing mostly extracts from various printed sources, [?1810s] (E7/6-9); a bundle of small notebooks containing memoranda, diaries and manuscript 'almanacks', 1802-1817 (E7/10-16); three booklets, seemingly parts of one disbound volume, containing miscellaneous pencil notes (E7/17); a notebook showing diagrams of [?Neolithic circles], monumental inscriptions and notes on Welsh poets, [?1790s] (E7/18); drawings of monumental inscriptions by Iolo, mostly from Glamorgan churches, together with some notes (E7/19); an incomplete draft letter from Iolo to 'Nancy', 19 September 1826 (E7/20); a single leaf containing aphorisms attributed to Taliesin (E7/21); bills, receipts and other miscellaneous financial and related papers of Iolo Morganwg, 1782-1826 (E7/22); and financial papers of Iolo's maternal grandfather Edward Matthew, Llangrallo, including tax receipts and accounts, 1705-1736 (E7/23) and of Iolo's parents, 1740-1749 (E7/24).

Matthew, Edward, of Llangrallo