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A collection of 'carolau', 'cerddi', 'englynion', and other verse in various metres. The poets include John Rhees, 1776-8, Hugh Jones 'o Faes y glase' (1749-1825), Robert Evan 'o Feifod' (fl. c. 1750), Edward Morus 'o'r Plas yn y Pentre', 1785, Ellis Rowland (c. 1650-c. 1730), George Humphreys (senior) (1747?-1813), 1803-7, George Humphreys (junior), Ellis Roberts (d. 1789), Jonathan Hughes (1721-1805), Evan Williams, Rhys Lloyd, Harri 'o Graig y Gath' [Harri Parri (1709?-1800)], Hugh Morris (1622-1709), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas), Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) (1739-1810) and John Cain alias 'Ceiriog' (c. 1575-c. 1650). Also included is a shoemaker's accounts and a charm against tooothache.

Poems by John Williams ('Ioan Madog'), Portmadoc.

Dyddiadur yr Annibynwyr, 1862, 1868, 1871, with entries of poetry in strict and free metres, and some memoranda, by Richard Davies ('Tafolog').

An elegy to W[illiam] Hughes, [Calvinistic Methodist] minister, Llanengan, co. Caernarvon, and 'chwech Penill a'r Enllibwr', both submitted for competition at a literary meeting at Penycaera[u], 1867.

Two ? holograph poems, the first, by Ellis Parry, Pont Saint, entitled 'Penillion A gyfansoddwyd ar fyddygoliaeth R. D. Williams, Esqr., Cyfreithiwr dros bysgodwyr Menai, yn erbyn J. Russel', and the second described as 'Gwaith Ellis ap Hywel yn rhoddi darlyniad ohono ei hun'.

Holograph poetry by Hugh Jones ('Erfyl'), with annotations - 'Cywydd: Hiraeth Cymro am ei Wlad mewn Bro estron ... Testun Cymdeithas Cymmrodorion yn Mhowys, 1820; and 'Awdl: [Maes Garmon]' submitted for competition at the Mold Eisteddfod, 1823.

Albums of press cuttings (from the Central Glamorgan Gazette, Chronicle for South and Mid-Glamorgan, Barry Herald, etc.) compiled by 'Ioan Trithyd'. They consist largely of the compiler's own press contributions, in the form of poetry of local interest, 'Llith yr Hen Bacman', 'Llith Wmffra Llwyd', 'Ymweliad a Llanwrtyd', 'Hanes Llantrithyd ...', etc.

Holograph poems entitled 'Gardd Gethsemane' by Nathaniel Jones ('Cynhafal') (awarded the prize at an eisteddfod at Adwy'r Clawdd, 1859), 'Cywydd i'r Daeargryn' by R[ichard] Davies ('Mynyddog') (awarded the prize at an eisteddfod at Llanerchymedd, 1859), and 'Uffern' by M. Owen ('Meirig Wyn o Wynedd'), Pentrefoelas [after 1855]; an adjudication by [Thomas jones] ('Glan Alun'), William Williams ('Creuddynfab'), and [John Ceiriog Hughes] ('Ceiriog'); a press contribution entitled 'Blagur Llenyddol' by [Henry Rowlands] ('Henri Myllin'); and a holograph letter from [John Jones] ('Talhaiarn'), from Battlesden, Woburn, to [John Owen] ('Owain Alaw'), 1863 (the publication of 'penillion').

A pocket-book, 1829-55, of John Davies (b. c. 1804), Quarry, parish of Clydau, co. Pembroke, shoemaker, mainly recording names of preachers, with texts of sermons, at Pontgarreg, Cenarth, and other Calvinistic Methodist chapels, as well as at Association and other CM meetings, in counties Carmarthen and Pembroke, together with occasional references to family and local events. The volume also includes transcripts of hymns and other verse, and other miscellaneous memoranda.

A volume containing poetry, mostly in Welsh, by William Edwards ('Cynlaisfab', d. 1920s), Glantawe, Ystradgynlais, co. Brecon, and afterwards of Blaengwynfi, co. Glamorgan, composed 1869-1920 and including poems entered for competition at local eisteddfodau. An index to the poems is included on the front and back covers and end-papers.

A file of poetry by William J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd') and others.

A collection of holograph poems and press cuttings of prose and verse by Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), with some autobiographical data. The volume is described by the compiler as his second book - 'Ail Lyfr Barddoniaeth Alltud Eifion' - and was begun in 1874.

Miscellaneous poems from the collection of W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including poems by Owen Roberts, 'Brysiog Machno' and 'I. D. Conwy'.

Transcripts of poems by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') [1747-1826] and by his son Taliesin Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo') [1787-1847], including 'Cowbridge Topers', 'Juvenile Topers or Farmers' Sons Triumphant', 'To Cowbridge', etc.

A notebook containing a collection of the poetical works of David William, Fawnog Wen, Penrhyndeudraeth, 1874-1881.

Dyddiadur yr Annibynwyr am 1870 ..., used entirely to record unsigned poems in strict and free metres.

A poem entitled 'Pryddest ar Joseph' by 'Blagur'.

A manuscript copy, in the hand of Abram Williams, Bad Uchaf, near Pontypridd, of an 'awdl' on 'Gwilym Hiraethog' by Evan Rees ('Dyfed') which was awarded the prize at the National Eisteddfod at Liverpool, 1884.

A scrapbook, compiled by J. W. Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog, and unbound leaves containing holographs, transcripts, and press cuttings of poetry in free and strict metres, 1893-1903 and 1918?, by William (Gwilym) Morgan, quarryman, of Blaenau Ffestiniog, together with adjudications by [Sir] J[ohn] Morris Jones (press cuttings), [Howell Elvet Lewis] ('Elfed') (transcript), etc. MS. 11064 also contains testimonials, 1901, to William Morgan and Mrs Morgan from Robert Roberts, J. P., surgeon, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Reverend W[illiam] P[ari] Hughes, Dolgellau, and Wm. Davies, Junior, Managing Partner, The Diphwys Casson Slate Quarries Company, Blaenau Ffestiniog, the first (and presumably the other two) in support of their candidature for the posts of master and matron of Pwllheli Workhouse; and a holograph letter, 1936, from [Humphrey Jones] ('Bryfdir'), Rhiwbryfdir, to [J. W. Jones], enclosing copies of 'in memoriam' verses to Gwilym Morgan. Included in MS. 11065 is a holograph letter, 1899, from Robert Roberts, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to Gwilym Morgan, with observations on 'englynion' in English by the recipient.

Miscellanea from the collection of J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro'), including a biography by him, c. 1895, of John Griffiths, Ynys-fawr, Llandissilio East, Carmarthenshire; a transcript, 1887, by Jonathan N. Davies ('Carnalaw'), for 'Clwydwenfro', of an 'awdl' on 'Cymmedroldeb' by 'Ioan Glan Taf' which was awarded the prize at an eisteddfod at Crymych, Pembrokeshire, 1881; and an incomplete transcript of a Welsh ballad.