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W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Is much pleased with Gwron Cymreig received last night. Will the addressee please to announce at a convenient opportunity that he (WW) will give a prize of two guineas 'for the best essay in prose on the advantages of planting orchards in Glamorganshire'. He will soon send David Benwyn's poems for collation and (return) the two books lent him by the addressee.

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Asking the addressee to put his name down among the list of subscribers to the tower at the Maen Chwyf for £1 and (also) to give him his opinion of a letter signed Gwlad-garwr in the next Cambrian. Suggesting a plan (with regard to the County history).

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. He does not think it is fair that the Northwalians should play first fiddle in the MSS Society. He would like to see the addressee's essay on the Coelbren before it goes to Abergavenny - perhaps some notes might be added. Discusses appraising the addressee's MSS.

[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, Merthyr. Is rejoiced to find that the addressee is going to write on the Neath Vale subject. Thanking him for his congratulations - Mrs Williams and her little boy are going on well.

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. They will be delighted to see him on Saturday. He requires no solicitation to read the addressee's essay on the Coelbren, but from recent events (specified) he does not wish to place himself under obligation to the Aberg[avenn]y folks. He wrote the other day to Mr Walter Davies asking him here - does the addressee think he (TW) could persuade him to be present at the Merthyr Cymreigyddion? The Glynnedd Chieftains subject.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. He has lately returned home after an absence of two months - his wife and children are obliged to remain away as the scarlet fever prevails here. Is still persevering about bringing about a translation of the Myvyrian - the addressee knows that he (WW) started the MSS Society and he thinks it was in a considerable degree owing to him that Ab Iolo determined on his history of Glamorgan. Is he making any additions to the account of the Princes of Gwent? He (WW) would like to write a short account of the Myvyrian - asking the addressee to correct the following at his leisure.

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. Acknowledging receipt of two vols of MSS and Enderbie - Pezron did not come. He will return the books very soon - asking the addressee when he receives them to lend him, if not inconvenient, the large volume of his father's MSS concerning Siluria. He lately received a letter from Tegid, who is making surprising efforts to attain to literary distinction. The mistake which many men of talent make. Thursday evening: the arrival of Pezron.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. On Monday morning the addressee will receive his two vols of MSS, Pergwm and Gwrgant. 'In "Pergwm" Mrs Williams of Bridgend might have found very interesting materials for her novel about Ed. 2nd.' A query concerning 'Celtic remains.' The Liverpool Eisteddfod in June. Asking the addressee to send him with the next parcel the prize history of Iestyn by Evans of Cardiff if he has quite done with it. 'It is a good thing that Frost & Co. are at last off, three more ambitious fellows with more contemptible pretensions have seldom started on the road of glory'.

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 Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. The epitaphs - the above are very slight changes from what the addressee had the kindness to write. Acknowledging the two vols of MSS. He has heard the following as attributed to D. Nicolas. Tegid's englyn for Liverpool on the 'gafr'.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe-land, Merthyr. He has been reading the new publication 'History of the Celtic language' and hastens to afford the addressee a triumph over his adversaries respecting the Coelbren: a quotation verbatim. Suggesting that the addressee should write to the author, Mr L. Maclean, Argyle Street, Glasgow. The penny post is a great comfort, etc. Is happy to see that his 'agitating' about the Celtic Professorship has stirred them at Liverpool.

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. TW's kindness about the Silurian. He (TW) will see in the Cambrian an article on a Celtic Professorship - 'that would be the avenue of Welshmen to the mitre.' He appreciates his friendly hint to Mr Rees. He supposes Mr Thirlwal will be the new Bishop - 'the silence of the Welsh will, by the Ministers naturally be considered as an argument of their apathy on the subject.' But why is the addressee not at Llandrindod? The work projected by Mr Richards.

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. (Forwarded to Post Office, Abergavenny). According to the addressee's request he encloses £5, and hopes to see the history of Iestyn's ancestors, and descendants with regard to this branch, at the period the addressee mentions.

W. Williams, Aberpergwm, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. He feels convinced that no one can produce a history of Glamorgan but the addressee - he has therefore been endeavouring to forward it by infusing his sentiments into others. Requesting that the addressee will as soon as possible reflect maturely on the subject so as to be in a condition shortly to answer the following queries, as correctly as present circumstances will admit. Time is precious, particularly now, as Greenwood is going about, &c.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Wellington Street, Merthyr. The disappointment of all here at not seeing him. Hoping he will be well enough to come on Jan. 5 so as to pass nôs gwyl ystwyll here.

W. Williams to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe land, Merthyr. He will do as the addressee suggests, should any application be made to him from the Secretary. The addressee prophesied correctly about the translation of the Archaiology. Mention of a work of great learning on the Celts by a German, and of Dr Prichard's Ethnography. Does he think his copies will be ready for the press in the course of the summer? A pamphlet published by Mr Roberts of Swansea. The Archdeacon's Homerus.

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'.