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Holograph letters addressed to Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'). The writers include Owen Jones, Carnarvon, 1829 (a payment due from Owen Hughes, encloses 30/-); [Rev.] D[avid] Williams, Llandwrog Rectory and Bodelwyddan Rectory, 1843-62 (32) (information concerning Miss Lloyd, an appointment with Mr Simpson, the application of Thomas Owen for admission to the Training College, the success of pupils recommended by the writer, William Price's complaints, the death of the recipient's child and of the writer's brother-in-law, requests for Welsh translations, a visit from one of the writer's venerated uncle's old schoolmasters, the illness of the recipient's son, the relationship between the writer and the recipient, the writer's visit to Hengwrtuchaf in Merioneth, the writer's pedigree, an explanation of the writer's wearing of an academic hood and a stole, a request to the recipient to bring his medals to an exhibition, lectures by the writer, the recipient's secession from 'our venerable Church', the death of the recipient's wife, the writer's removal to Bodelwyddan, the marriage of the writer's daughter, instructions to present tea to 'Dafydd the Clochydd' and his wife and to Nelly 'our old servant', a discourteous act by a tenant, the writer's possession of a bell, a gift for the recipient's son, the writer's proposed visit to the 'Poetess Meinwen Elwy', correspondence between the recipient and the writer's daughter, the death of the recipient's son), Margt. A Williams (daughter of D. Williams), Llandwrog Rectory and Bôd Elwyddan Parsonage, 1860-2 (5) (the acceptance by the writer's father of the incumbency of Bodelwyddan, the illness of the recipient's son, the writer's visit to Llandwrog, the writer's marriage to Mr [Edmund Thomas] Watts, incumbent of Dyserth, personal), Dan Vawdrey, Clynog and Plasgwynant, Beddgelert, 1843 (4) (a gift of a number of The Protestant and the offer of a loan of other numbers at Plasgwynant, a request for a loan of a book, the engagement of a servant woman, the rescue of a vessel off the coast), J[ames] H[enry] Cotton, Deanery, Bangor, 1845 (recommending the character of the Reverend E. L. Davies), Edwd. Edwards, Penrhos [Holyhead], 1844-52 (14) (the payment of arrears of rent and other matters arising from the writer's agency of the Penrhos estate, Clynnog tithe apportionment, a request for an 'englyn' in return for a gift of an address on 'Draining', the publication of Y Traethodydd, regret on account of the 'Welsh Missionaries' and the possible disruption of the 'Calvinistic Body', the recipient's wish that sectarianism be renounced, a new Sunday School method adopted by the recipient, the industrial development of the Holyhead district, the writer's wish to see the separation of Church and State, preparations for the Madog Eisteddfod, the writer's wish to see E[llis] Owen [of Cefnymeusydd], the forthcoming parliamentary election), M. Hughes [of Clynnog Vicarage] from Gogarth, 1848 (4) (the illness of the writer's husband and his consequent absence from his parish), [Rev.] Lewis Hughes, Gogarth, 1848 (the writer's illness and his consequent departure from Clynnog, the writer's visit to Aberystwyth, thanks for hymns, the writer's rather gracious reception by the Bishop, visits to the writer by 'Bob y Garn', a request to the writer from the Dean [J. H. Cotton] for a contribution towards the repair of St Beuno's Chapel, unfavourable comments on the writer's successor [Robert Williams] at Clynnog, personal), [Rev.] Hugh Owen, secretary, Eisteddfod Aberffraw (1849), from Trefeilir, Aberffraw, 1848-50 (12) (the Aberffraw eisteddfod and the controversy arising from the adjudications in the 'awdl' competition), [Rev.] R[obert] Phillips, Bettws [yn Rhos] Vicarage, near Abergele, 1836-50 (9) (requests for hymns for harvest and Sunday School services and for publication in the writer's anthology, the writer's health), J. Williams, Tynewydd, undated (the writer's ancestry), Robert Simpson, Plas Bodewryd, near Amlwch, [18]52 (requesting the recipient to arrange appointments at Aber and Clynnog), [Joseph Charles Edwards] ('Iorwerth Ddu o Von'), Keyingham Parsonage, near Hull, 1852 (thanks for 'englynion', the writer's lecture in London, the writer's Welsh servant), 'Thistle' (pseud.), 4 St. Andrews Place, Regents Park [London], 1853 (7) (subscriptions and contributions to The Bouquet edited by the writer), [Sir] Hugh Owen, Whitehall, 1853-8 (8) (the necessity of introducing some supplement to the public preaching of the Gospel in Wales', the appointment of the recipient to the Provisional Committee of the Normal College for North Wales, the recipient's tribute to the memory of John Jones of Talsarn, attempts to secure a situation for the recipient's boy) (together with a copy of a letter, 1859 [recte 1858], from S[amuel] Prout Newcombe to H. Owen, regretting his inability to provide an opening for the son of 'Eben Fardd'), Lady [Augusta] Hall of Llanover, 1854 (the Ffestiniog meeting was not an Eisteddfod, money should not be asked nominally for one object when it is really for another), Peter Maurice, New College [Oxford], and South Grove, Highgate, 1857-9 (14) (the publication of the writer's Choral Harmony and Supplement and the recipient's assistance with the Welsh portions), John Owen, Thrussington, Loughborough, 1858-61 and undated (10) (the writer's selection of hymns published under the title of Emynau ..., condolence, a subscription to a testimonial to the Reverend William Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog'] of Liverpool), Ed. Morgan, Syston Vicarage, near Leicester, etc., 1841-60 and undated (21) (the writer's memoirs of Howel Harris, of John Elias, and of William Williams of Pantycelyn, the possibility of the recipient's ordination in the Church of England, a present to the recipient of the Welsh works of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror, a subscription for the recipient's portrait, personal), Tho. Cambria Jones, St Asaph, 1859 (thanks for the recipient's 'happy translations' for publication, the writer's health, the recipient's appearance), W[illiam] Bulkeley Hughes [MP], London, 1857 (the vacant postmastership of Caernarvon), Georgiana Trower, Redbill, Reigate, and Bideford, [1859 and] undated (4) (an enclosed ballad, the writer's health, a contribution by the writer to the Cambrian Journal, condolence, news of friends, the writer's impressions of North Devon, the recipient's appreciation of the writer's letters, a gift of a 'little book' by the writer), [Sir] Llewelyn Turner, Parkia, Carnarvon, 1861 (2) (meetings of the [Caernarvon, 1862, National] Eisteddfod and the writer's views on the function of the eisteddfod), J[ohn] Williams Ellis ('Druid'), Glasfryn [Llangybi], [18]61 (the recipient's plan of a turnpike gate, a gift of a book), and [?] Hughes, undated (books borrowed from the recipient, the Nanhoron pedigree). On one of the fly-leaves is an incomplete list of scribes in the hand of J. H. Davies. The volume is lettered 'MSS Eminent Letters'.

A composite volume almost entirely in the autograph of Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') containing a few notes and pedigrees mainly of Caernarfonshire interest (Lleuar, Hafod boeth, Plas Llanwnda, notes copied from a Bible, 'Monument inscriptions in Llanfag'len', etc.); a diary of Eben Fardd for the greater part of 1838 (in four sections, January 1 - June 1, June 2 - July 21, July 26 - August 22, and October 27 - December 24 [end wanting]); two letters from Evan Evans ['Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'], Christleton, 1840 and undated, one to [Eben Fardd], the other to - Williams, and five letters from Thomas Thomas, Vicarage, Caernarfon, 1840, all to Eben Fardd (the possibility that Eben Fardd might prepare for holy orders); holograph copies of two letters from Ebenezer Thomas, Clynnog to the Reverend Hugh Owen, Trefeilir near Aberffraw, 1849 (the repercussions of the Aberffraw Eisteddfod); statistics and suggestions with regard to meetings of Sunday Schools in the Clynnog District (C.M.); an account of 'The Method of Analysing Mineral Waters' written and presented to Eben Fardd by John Pughe, Esq., Surgeon ['Ioan ap Hu Feddyg'], 'then of Cochybug, Clynnog, now of Aberdovey'; and further miscellaneous notes and pedigrees, concluding with Brondanwg and 'Ffynnon Digyw (Diguré), Coetyno and Clynnog Vawr.

A composite volume largely in the autograph of Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') containing pedigrees (John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') has marked some items, e.g. Llwynhelyg, Cwningaer, Robert ab Gwilym Ddu, John Wynn Morris of Wmwlch & Tyddyn Mawr); lines of verse (?incomplete) beginning 'My friend and I, on one autumnal morn ...' containing a reference to visiting John Thomas ('Siôn Wyn o Eifion'); the beginning of a translation of 'Awdl Elusengarwch' (Dewi Wyn [o Eifion]) under the title 'Charity'; a copy of a letter, 1854, from Ebenezer Thomas to the Reverend M. Rice Morgan, Pengwern, near Swansea (a claim for postage expenses in connection with the Treforys Eisteddfod); 'Englynion Wrth ganfod Eben Fardd. Awst 20 1853' by 'Maccwy' [?Robert Roberts, 'Macwy Môn']; diary entries, 2 May - 10 September 1858, relating to the illness and death of Elizabeth, youngest daughter of 'Eben Fardd'; a letter, 1852, from William Evans, Llandwrog to Ebenezer Thomas, sending a copy of some lines of verse by the writer entitled 'Hail, Clynnog Fawr'; a note concerning Goronwy Owen and his descendants in America based on letters in Yr Herald Cymraeg, 10 July 1858; accounts in connection with 'Y Seat Ganu', 1859-62; notes for essays or addresses (e.g. 'Ystyriaethau ar ddydd diolchgarwch am y cynhauaf yn 1856 (Medi 30)'); notes on temperance; a transcript by E. Vardd [sic] of the comments in the Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald, 12 January 1856, on his lecture at the Hope Hall, Liverpool on January 2; observations on, 'Church Discipline' and a note concerning a [C.M.] Mo[nthly] Meeting at Brynaera, 7 September 1845; an adjudication (beginning wanting) of the poetical compositions submitted for competition at a [Merthyr] Eisteddfod, [Christmas Day, 1850] (see Seren Gomer, 1851, p. 45); and an adjudication of the poetical compositions at the Denbigh Eisteddfod, 1860. Interpersed are items of poetry by Eben Fardd, some in the form of press-cuttings, together with some loose papers (e.g. a copy of a letter to the editor of the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, [1849], and a list of 'Friends and correspondents') and printed matter (e.g. circulars relating to a proposed testimonial to [David Williams] 'Alaw Goch', and to the Aberffraw Eisteddfod of 1849). The volume also contains one or two entries in the hand of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd').

Letters, etc. addressed mainly to John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), the correspondents being E[benezer] Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), Clynnog to John Thomas ('Sion Wyn o Eifion'), Chwilog, 1842 (the health of the addressee's sister, mention of the Memoir) and to the Reverend Hugh Owen, Treveilir, Aberffro [sic], 1849 (re adjudicating at the Aberffro Eisteddfod (holograph copies)), D. R. Daniel, London, 1920 (submitting a short article on 'Y Clochydd', etc.), [John Daniel] 'Rhab[anian]', Rheithordy Llandudwen, 1908 (he intends to visit the addressee), ? E. L. Davies [with Archdeacon Burney], undated (personal matters, asking the addressee to write giving an account of Clynnog and N[orth] Wales generally (beginning wanting)), T. Witton Davies, Bangor, 1916 (returning the card with the handwriting of Dic Aberdaron, the writer's own researches), John Edwards ('Meiriadog'), Llanfair, [18]63 and 1883 (the earlier one possibly to [Owen Jones ('Manoethwy')], addressed here as 'Myfyr Lleyn') (items of news, he knows nothing of Angharad Lloyd, reference to his 70th birthday), D. G. Goodwin, Uffington, Shrewsbury, 1904 (the addressee's new book), T. Hopwood, Treuddyn, [19]18 (the inscription on the memorial column to the Reverend W. Williams, 'Gwilym ap Gwilym Lleyn'), E. Gurnos Jones, Newport, [18]89 (postcard), John D. Jones, Llandudno, 1914 (the manuscript 'Notes upon Carnarvonshire' by Edmund Hyde Hall), [L. D. Jones], 'Llew Tegid', Bangor, [19]20 (sending two books or booklets, 'Yr Orgraff' and a book of stories), [Owen Jones ('Manoethwy')], Llundain, 1865 (observations on the addressee's essays on the parish of Llanystumdwy (incomplete)), Owen Jones, Trefriw and Llandudno, 1875 and [18]78 (2) (he does not remember seeing the addressee's letter, a certain manuscript), R. J. Jones, Aberdare, [1921] (an expression of good wishes, his own date of birth (postcard)), T. Tudno Jones, Llandudno, 1872 (re publishing a chair awdl), W. O. Jones, Lerpwl, 1913-20 (5) (Llais Rhyddid), [? M. T. Morris], 'Meurig Wyn', undated (sending a volume for presentation to an unnamed benefactor), T. F. Roberts, Aberystwyth, 1905 (Gleanings from God's Acre, reference to the National Library), T. Shankland, Bangor, 1913 (queries concerning William Elias), Richard Williams, Glasfryn, Festiniog [sic], undated (acknowledging a letter, mention of an old book (? manuscript)), W. W., undated (genealogical matters), [ ], 'Mynyddawc', undated (Adgof Uwch Anghof), part of an elegy on [? John Jones, Llanfair Caereinion] c. 1858, by 'Teithiwr Galarus' (beginning wanting), verses and scriptural notes written on the back of two letters to Thomas Jones, 1856 and 1863, from Owen Evans, Tynycoed and Rich[ar]d Jones, Pwllheli respectively (? estate matters), 'englynion' to 'Hafan St Tudwal (St Tudwell's Roads)' by 'Seithenyn', a note by 'G-d' ['William Thomas Edwards ('Gwilym Deudraeth')] concerning D. Sion Jâms, a fragment of a letter in the autograph of [? Morris Williams ('Nicander')], 'Marwnad er Coffadwriaeth am y diweddar Milwriad Wynne Garthewyn un o Destynau Eisteddfod Llanfairtalhaiarn y dydd cyntaf o Ionawr 1855' by 'Megido', and part of an article (see also Cwrtmawr MS 932D) on 'Hugh Hughes yr Arlunydd' in the autograph of J. Spinther James.

A collection of letters addressed to various persons by Thomas Edward Ellis, Westminster, 1886, enclosing a short political address, also letters by John Castell Evans, Devonport, 1867, Evan Jones, Tredegar ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), 1845, J. R. Jones, Y Garreg Fawr, 1808, John Mills, London, 1851, Robert Owen, Aberystwyth, 1876, J. R. Prys ('Golyddan'), 1858-1860, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), Chester, 1879, Edward Roberts ('Iorwerth Glan Aled'), Rhyl, 1851, Robert Roberts, 1835, Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), 1850, Owen Williams, Waunfawr, 1864, R. J. Williams, Aberystwyth, 1885; a letter by 'A Subscriber to the Aberffraw Eisteddfod', 1849, and a letter by Jane Edwards, Barmouth, 1909, relating to Athrawiaeth i Ddysgu Ysgrifenu, 1683.

Thirty-two holograph letters, 1872-1898 and undated, some addressed to, and all, by inference, written to, the Rev[erend] Elias Owen. The writers include B[railsford] H[arty] Beedham, Bangor, Conway, and Kimbolton, 1872-1877 and undated (10) ( personal, the writer's visits to North Wales, and to sites of archaeological interest there, including Pen Gaer Helen, the cromlech at Bryn Celli du, the cromlechs at Presaddfed, and the chambered example at Trefigneth, hopes of ascending 'the Rivals, to that early British village' (1876), recipient's paper on the Llanllechid huts [see Elias Owen: 'Arvona Antiqua', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd series, vol. XII, pp. 215-28, vol. XIII, pp. 102-08, 4th series, vol. III, pp. 239-48], sketches required by the writer in connection with a 'further work on Abp. Williams' [the British Museum Catalogue lists two items by Beedham relating to Archbishop John Williams (1582-1650), viz. The Unpublished Correspondence between Archbishop Williams and the Marquis of Ormond (London, 1869), and Notices of Archbishop Williams (London, 1869). Neither of these is illustrated], letters of the said archbishop amongst the London Corporation muniments, references to Sir John Lubbock: Prehistoric Times . . . (2nd edition [1869 ])), Tho[ma]s Darlington, Aberystwyth and West Dulwich, 1897 (2) (thanks for 'the Folklore' [recipient's work Welsh Folk-Lore, a collection of the folk-tales and legends of North Wales (Oswestry and Wrexham, ? 1896)], forms in connection with Porthywaen and Llanyblodwel [schools], a promise to write to John [aft. Sir John] Rhys [ principal of Jesus College, Oxford], and Sir John Williams, the latter's influence with the Prince [of Wales] and the Royal Family, lack of opportunity to write to Sir John owing to the writer's illness and Sir John's attendance upon the Duchess of York during her accouchement, a recommendation that Llanyblodwel [school] be given a higher grant), T. W. Davies, North and South Wales Bank Limited, Welshpool, 1893-1894 (3) (information relating to [the Reverend Griffith] Edwards ('Gutyn Padarn') [ poet and antiquary], the medals Edwards had won at eisteddfodau, forwarding recipient a photograph of Edwards and a volume of his poems, etc. [Gwaith Prydyddawl . . ., hefyd traethawd ar ansawdd a dibenion barddoniaeth (Bala, 1846)], the writer's correspondence with a co-executor concerning 'Mr. Edwards works' [subsequently edited by recipient, and published as The Works of the Rev. Griffith Edwards, 'Gutyn Padarn' . . . ( London, 1895)]), William H[enry] Goss, Stoke on Trent, 1897-1898 (4) (personal, pleasure owing to the fact that 'the Jewitt and Review volumes' had pleased recipient [the first possibly W. H. Goss: The Life and Death of Llewellynn Jewitt . . . (London, 1889)], enquiring whether recipient had received a copy of the writer's 'Hebrew Captives of the Kings of Assyria', the writer's work on his proposed book on 'Primitive Man and his work', proverbs sent by recipient), Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), Madoc Printing Office, Tremadoc, 1896 (apologies for the fact that the Brython was out of print, except for a few copies of the 1860 volume and odd numbers for 1861-1862, drawing recipient's attention to 'the 2nd Edition of the Brython quarto in one Royal Octavo size, which we have in the press', forwarding prospectuses and a pamphlet, drawing attention to 'our list of School Books such as Rhodd Mam Eglwysig, Anerchiadau i Athrawon [? Robert Isaac Jones: Anerchiadau Caredig at Athrawon ac Athrawesau yr Ysgol Sabbothol yng Nghymru (Tremadog)], and Yr Eglwys yn gartre y Cristion [Y Parch E[dward] L[ewis] Lloyd: Yr Eglwys yn Gartref y Cristion (Tremadog)]', and to the writer's own volume on the antiquities of the neighbourhood of Tremadoc [Y Gestiana, sef Hanes Tre'r Gest . . . (Tremadog, ? 1892)]), [ the Honourable] Fanny [Mary Catherine] Bulkeley Owen, West Felton, Oswestry, [18]95 (thanking recipient for a book, thoughts of learning Welsh, forwarding an 'Ode to our Prince', the unanimity of all shades of opinion in 'joining in the Memorial', the writer's 'Mother's Union Litany', which had been translated [into Welsh], an offer to supply copies to Welsh speaking parishes), Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1892 (3) (the writer's change of address, a loan to recipient of two volumes of Antiquary, a reminder that 'similar traditions to those described by Mr. Gomme attach in Wales to the churches of Llangar, Corwen, and old St. David, Denbigh' [ See G. L. Gomme: 'Some Traditions and Superstitions connected with Buildings', The Antiquary, vol. III, pp. 8-113, and follow-up correspondence, ibid., vol. III, pp. 188-9, vol. IV, pp. 33-4, 85], the fear of the witch or dewines 'throughout this part of rural Wales', an example of this attitude amongst the writer's servants, the story of the fairies who removed the stones placed in position for building the church of St. David, Denbigh, the writer's wish to hear more of the game called ' chwareu twmpath', and of the mounds called 'twmpathau chwareu', a reference to nail parings as a love charm in [Ellis Wynne: Gweledigaetheu] y Bardd Cwsc), [the Reverend] H[enry] Parry [vicar of] Llanfairisgaer, [18]79 (2) (the location of ? Crug mound in the parish of Llanfairisgaer, mention of Crug house, the discovery of the 'shield of the Wynns of Crug', cut in stone in the wall of the parish church and plastered over, when the church was being restored five years previously, the geographical location of Isgwyrfae, mention of the remains of an old chapel in the area where Crug was situated, and of former arrangements concerning tithes in that portion of the parish), [Messrs] Elliot Stock, London, 1894 (matters relating to 'Mr. Edwards's papers' [? the recipient's edition of the works of the Reverend Griffith Edwards, published by Elliot Stock, London, 1895. See letters from T. W. Davies above]), Cha[rle]s Holland Warne, Brighton, 1888 (2) (notifying recipient that he was sending him a copy of [Charles Warne:] The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset . . . [(London, 1866)], acknowledging receipt of a copy of The Old Stone Crosses . . .), and Owen Williamson, Dwyran, Anglesey, 1895-1897 (3) (personal, the writer's ill health, some data re his schooling and teaching career, his book on New-borough [Hanes Niwbwrch (Lerpwl)], correspondence with recipient's brother, the Rev[erend] Elijah Owen, rector of Llangoed, a proposed 'historical novel on the modern progress of Newborough', the absence of literary men and archaeologists within reach of the writer, the lack of archaeological interest amongst the clergy of the rural deanery, profuse thanks to recipient for the gift of a book [? The Works of the Rev. Griffith Edwards ], mention of the writer's father R[obert] M[ona] Williamson ('Bardd Du Môn'), and two of his eisteddfodic compositions, viz., 'a marwnad to Sir Watkin [Williams-Wynn, 5th bart., of Wynnstay]', submitted for competition at an eisteddfod held at Liverpool, 1840, and 'Awdl y Greadigaeth', submitted at Aberffraw, 1848 [? recte 1849, and subsequently published under that title (Caernarfon, 1849)], an essay on 'Olion y Goresgyniad Gwyddelig yng Ngwynedd', which the writer had composed for an eisteddfod to be held at Llangefni, Easter 1897, his subsequent discovery that [William Basil Jones], late bishop of St. Davids, had written a book entitled Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd [(London, 1851)], his suspicion that someone, who had a copy of the bishop's work, had purposely made this topic the subject of the competition, enquiries whether recipient had a copy available, the publishing, in 1897, of a Welsh poem of over 3,000 lines on the wisdom of God, left in manuscript by the writer's father [Pryddest ar Ddoethineb Duw (Caernarfon [1897])]).