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'Sylvia Lost. An Elegiac Song. written, for a Friend, in 1772', beginning, 'What's it to me that bloomy spring'. In the margin is the title 'Delia Lost'.

Verses beginning 'Thrice happy do I hold that wight' described as 'Old version of Saphoes ode'. On the reverse side is an account of the way in which E. W. was stopped on the road by James Evans and struck with a whip. This occurred on April 18; the year is not given.

Lines 'On the slave Trade', beginning, 'Whilst in more spritely (chearful) themes gay thoughts prevail ...' by 'Iolo'.

'Bardic Triplets, or moral aphorisms of the ancient Bards translated by Edward Wiliams' (cf. 33) (in the autograph of E. W., as is the explanatory note; signed 'T.W.', which begins, 'The inclosed Welsh tripplets are from a MS of my father's [?and] with them I send you an English Translation'.

Verses including the first two of 'On first hearing the cuckoo', ('Hail lovely harbinger of spring!'). On the reverse side are ten stanzas 'Written in Avondale. Ith. Gm.', beginning 'Now vivid hues the skies adorn ...'.

'Whimsical Dick [altered to Dick Flighty] a character' by Ith. Gm. 1780, beginning, 'Ye whimsical mortals one moment attend ...'.

'Pastoral Ballad' beginning, 'Beware of Love, ye gentle swains ...'. On the other side are 'Epitaph on an old maid' and the beginning of a song entitled 'Wedding'. (Iolo Morganwg MS 102/48).

'The Royal Shepherd, a Pastoral Ballad', beginning, 'Dark was the night and howling winds / urged on the stormy show'r...'. Endorsed 'Ballad on King Edward 2d'.

'The Sigh from D. G.' ('Sigh of grief why sudden start ...'). These lines have been crossed out, and on the reverse side is 'The Birchen Bow'r from D.G' ('In my tranquil birchen bow'r ...').

Announcement of the publication 'on Tuesday next', as a specimen of the translator's compositions, of 'The Fair Pilgrim A Poem Translated from Dafydd Ap Gwilym ... By Edward Wiliams ... Printed by S. Hazard & sold by all the Booksellers of Bath and Bristol and by the Author No. 36 Broad- street Bath'. Endorsed: 'Advertizement for Mr. Rees's Newspaper', and 'Anstey, Hodge podge', etc.

'Epithalamium on the Marriage of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. (By the Hand of a Master)'. Printed.

(a) 'On a late Return from Gellygare at Midnight. A Fragment', beginning, 'Late from Gellygare returning ...'; (b) Song. 'Let the half-famished Poet find fault with good cheer ...'. 'Swansea printed by J. Goodere'.

'Monody wrote the first of May 1785, (Tune shepherds holiday)', beginning, 'Whilst the mild beauties of the morn ...'. (cf. 10).

Draft (crossed out) of a dedication to HRH George Prince of Wales. On the reverse side, an advertisement for 'Dissertiations [sic] on Duck- milking ... By a Wicked Welsh Bard'.

Evidence in support of the existence of the Welsh Indians, together with extracts from Hakluyt's Voyages concerning New Mexico.