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Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe Land, Merthyr Tydvil. He is still unable to go out. Respecting Benwyll he has sent the extract of Benolt and the printed sheets to Mr Price for his opinion about cancelling. Sending another proof.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. A request for more copy.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Wellington Street, Merthyr Tydvil. If he has any copy ready to complete the Llafar Gorsedd, requesting him to send it per return of post with any other copy he may have ready. Will he be at the Eisteddfod? - if so, asking him to bring the Record Office copy of the Saints with him, or else to send it to him (there) by some safe hand.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. Asking him to send the notes per return of post, also the remainder of the copy. Suggesting that he should get his friends at Llangynwyd Vicarage to translate a few of the songs for him - Tegid would also give him some assistance with the poetry.

Will[ia]m Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tydfil. Asking him to send 3 copies of Colyn y Dolphin (for the Rev. W. J. Rees, the Rev. R. Rees, and himself).

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tydfil. His disappointment on Monday last in not receiving a letter from the addressee at Llanover according to promise, but he concluded that he had not seen Mr Williams, Aberpergwm, and therefore could not give a definitive reply. He trusts that since then he has consulted Mr Williams and has found some MS worthy of publication as the first work for the Society. The need for a little puffing and publicity in the Welsh newspapers. A request for a list of MSS belonging to Mr Johnson of Cowbridge. Written on a sheet containing a printed Prospectus of the Welsh MSS Society.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe Land, Merthyr Tydfil. Acknowledging the safe receipt of the MS containing some of Vicar Pritchard's poems. It is now his intention to make a long Memoir of the Vicar, therefore any information will be most thankfully received. The printing of the second part of the Mabinogion. The Liber Landavensis is not yet in the press. He wishes some others were engaged by the Society; they are as yet rather poor, otherwise he would recommend the committee to come to some terms with the addressee for the Triads, &c. Relating to having a complete translation of the Myfyrian Archaeology. Aneurin Owen.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe Land, Merthyr Tydvil. Acknowledging the safe receipt of a parcel containing the addressee's MS for part of the second volume of the Society's works.

W. Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. The amount of prose must do for the present. His health is still bad, but he ventures this morning to Llanover, and if the addressee has more prose to follow it may reach him on his return on Thursday and cause no delay.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. The probability that Mr Price himself will go to Glamorgan to copy the inscriptions, &c. If the mechanical work of translating is too much for the addressee's health the writer would engage to furnish him with a correct translation of all the prose at 1/6 per page (leaving him more free to do the editing, &c). How does the addressee intend to do with the Achau y Saint? Aneurin Owen's copy for the Record Office.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Wellington Street, Merthyr Tydvil. Enclosed is Mr Price's opinion on the alteration in the note on Madog Min. The Toddaid Note is printed off as the addressee sent it. Wishing to know whether he is authorized to omit the Madog note or not. A request for some copy per return of post. Enclosure.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. The pages of copy duly arrived. Enclosed are some observations just received from Mr Price. Enclosure wanting.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe Land, Merthyr Tydvil. Enclosed he has sent the addressee a slip of paper by Mr Price of Crickhowel on part of the Coelbren Essay - Mr Price wishes him to alter one remark for his own sake. The addressee asks who is to write the Preface to his Essay - if one is requisite no one ought to write it excepting himself. The engravings. The addressee's explanation respecting the Merthyr Guardian is perfectly satisfactory. Mention of Mr Dibb. The Liber Landavensis. Is proud to find that the addressee is arranging his late father's MSS and having them securely bound. Reference to the new Post Office arrangements. Enclosure wanting.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. Asking him to send an exact facsimile on tracing paper of the Peithynen from the transcript of Llywelyn Sion, with an explanatory note.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe Land, Merthyr Tydvil. Is anxiously waiting the return of the last proof. Sending herewith another proof. Does the addressee intend being at Abergavenny? What does he think of a placard for posting similar to this (for Coelbren y Beirdd)?

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tydvil. Sending a proof. The version given by Lady Charlotte of the Hanner Dyn is different from the addressee's. Wishing to know whether Rhitta Gawr is to be inserted or not.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Glebe Land, Merthyr Tydvil. His health. He managed however to go to Llanover last week. 'Jones was frightened into resigning his Office [of Hon. Secretary] by the letter I sent him soon after my return in February.' Enclosing a copy of the circular dispatched to all the Members of the Society announcing the change. Enclosure wanting.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tydvil. If it will be of any service to support his views respecting Ithael Rhys &c. on the crosses he could supply the addressee with Mr Wakeman's valuable note on St Samson (d. 593).

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. 'There are a few instances of too close ?translating in the enclosed Proof' (place-names and proper names). The revise and the proofs, etc. His men will soon be out of copy. See No. 660a for a copy of Taliesin Williams's reply, dated 27 May 1844.

Willm Rees, Llandovery, to [Taliesin Williams]. Sending two proofs. Relating to Achau y Saint.