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.
A letter drawing their attention to the ill usage he has suffered at the hands of Mr Job James, a surgeon and apothecary of Merthyr, who undertook to print the work on the principles of Welsh Poetry & Bardism. Copy. Incomplete.
A Note (draft from Tom o'Bedlam, 'a whimsical fellow', to Mrs Yearsly asking her for a little of her milk 'in hopes that it will operate like the waters of Helicon'. It is in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg and ends 'will wait this evening for the much-longed for milk - and to present Mr Meyler's compliments'. On the dorse is a copy of the title of the Rev. John Walters' Dictionary, 'Sold by J. Owen No. 168 Piccadilly', with some notes relating to the slave-trade.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe-land, Merthyr. His return to Glyneath after three months' absence. An invitation. Asking him to bring with him a copy of the list of subscribers with the amount of their respective subscriptions to the Merthyr Literary Society.
W. to Mr Taliesin Williams. Asking him to try (by letter) to induce Waring to print and distribute more of those papers. 'One shilling societies shd be formed in each Town in the County.' Desiring him to speak to Saunders and other ministers on the subject.
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?.
A few lines to accompany the short account of his father [William Gambold] which the addressee desired to have. The writer's severe illness. Wishing him success in his public-spirited undertaking.
Is very much surprised that the addressee does not give them the satisfaction of knowing how he is. However he supposes it was the addressee's laziness, not his ill-nature, that is the cause of it. On the dorse and above the letter are some stanzas written apparently at a later date but in an (?) older hand. EW has written 'Maeseglwys Psh Llangyvelach' and 'Dafydd or Nant' in the margin. Unfinished.
W. Williams to J. B. Bruce, esq., Dyffrin. He sends by the bearer Mrs Hall's letters, Williams's dissertation, a leaf of Lewis Glyn-Cothi, and Burke's Commoners. It would be right to put the Bishop in possession of what has been hitherto moved with regard to the MSS. They must beat up for other recruits of weight for their campaign. With all due reference to M. Rio he cannot see there will be any harm in mustering forces even in his (M. Rio's) absence. Marked: 'No. 1.'.
Congratulating him on the abolition of the slave trade. Discusses publishing a translation of Young's Farmer's Calendar. Five reasons for wishing the addressee to come to this neighbourhood to live, the fifth being because he is very desirous of engaging Taliesin as a writing-master in his school . They have at length resolved to build a meeting-house (at Neath). Mr Thomas Rees of Gelligron left Wales and is succeeded at Gellionnen by Mr Oliver of Aberdâr; the former's appointment in London.
J. S. Buckingham, 16 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, to Mr Julieson Williams, Merthyr Tydvil. Asking a favour. Will esteem himself greatly obliged if the addressee will address the few extra notes (which are being sent under separate cover) to any friends of his living at a distance and return them to him (JSB) by post, when he will frank them to the parties with a Prospectus of his Review in each.
W. Williams to J. B. Bruce, esq., Dyffrin. Since writing his former note he has been favoured with the addressee's letter. He has been thinking since the addressee left of the plan of their furnishing Mr Snow with gleanings of their readings in works relating to Wales (for the Guardian). Restoring the Bishop's letter with many thanks. Marked: 'No. 2.'.
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.
The extraordinary bareness of the addressee's country in ash and elm. The reason - the practice of making bandies for bandy matches with young ash and elm. Requesting him to communicate this to the public. Endorsed by EW: 'On young Elm Trees'.
W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Could the addressee not manage in the Easter vacation to go with Mr B. Pryce to Coedriglan? He has written to Rees of Llandovery about publishing a translation of the Myvyrian. The connection of Iestyn's family with Caerleon. He is told there are strict rules in a late Merlin respecting future adjudications at Abergavenny, so some good has been effected by grumbling. The addressee's derivation of Milgi is no doubt correct. He finds that the greal and san greal are different things. Stôl y Wyddones. Would like to see the essay or essays written on Glyneath in competition with the addressee's. Has he received his Coelbren? - he wrote about it immediately. Torn.
