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Half-length studio portrait of a woman soldier in the uniform of the ATS. On the left breast of her tunic she is wearing the insignia of a fusilier regiment indicating that this is the corps to which she is attached.

Head and shoulders portrait of a stern looking woman in a white jumper photographed in front of a gnarled tree trunk. She is looking towards her right.

Half-length studio portrait of a smiling young woman in the uniform of the National Fire Service, note the NFS uniform buttons.

Wm Williams, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tidvil. Reminding him of his promise to write a Welsh inscription to be put on a silver snuff-box that was presented to the writer on his leaving Wales. He has annexed for TW's perusal an 'englyn' sent him for that purpose by one of his old friends - it was composed, he believes, by Mr Williams of the Swan. He has also annexed an inscription which is merely to convey an idea of what he wishes to say.

Wm Williams, Cowbridge Free School, to Ab Iolo, Merthyr Tydvil. The name 'Caerex' (a field). There is still a stone of some note within the turnpike-gate of the East which the writer remembers used to be annually whitewashed by the neighbours and to which the Corporation in their perambulation always used to walk, but he does not know whether it is a part of the cromlech to which the addressee alludes. There is no vestige to the best of his knowledge of the 'Twr y Bontfaen'.

Wm Thos FitzGerald, Upper Seymour Street, to Mr Edward Williams (The Welch Bard), Flimston near Cowbridge. Informing him with pleasure that the Committee of the Literary Fund have voted him ten guineas. Acknowledging receipt of his two Volumes and his ode to the Glamorgan Volunteers. He takes the liberty of saying that he very much prefers the addressee's poetry to his prose as the last contains opinions, both political and religious, that are directly in opposition to his own. A hint as regards a second edition of his Poems.

Thomas and Miles came to an agreement before the former went to America that the last survivor should have the whole. Thomas died in 17 days after arriving at Eddington, North Carolina, in Feb. last year. He is certain that Miles will die intestate, leaving his property in a very deranged state. The Chancery business between him (Miles) and his sister is yet undecided. Urging the addressee to come out himself or to appoint some substantial person or persons to act as his attorney. Naming two who are ready with the writer to give every assistance. A message for his own family. (For a copy of another letter from Wm Thomas see No. 639).

His surprise when he learnt that the addressee and his brother John never wrote to each other. He would advise him as a friend to keep up a friendly correspondence with all his brothers, but more particularly with John. Miles and John can muster from £15,000-£20,000 whenever they wish to dispose of their property. Contemporary events. Endorsed: 'William Thomas Jamaica. 1st Letter. 1803'.

Asking him to send the writer's shoes and buckle by Mr Gill, the Preacher. He believes he left them in the shop. Also his breeches from Richd Lewis the tailor's. On the dorse are some remarks on Wm Wms and his use or misuse of 'troellion ymadrodd', with an example from Caniadau ... y Môr o Wydr to illustrate the point.

He very willingly submits to the addressee's wish to be reconciled with him if the addressee will take under his protection the bearer, Mr Williams, a Welsh Bard, who quits his native country to visit America in hopes of finding out the colony of his countrymen that migrated under Prince Madoc.

Asking the addressee either to call at No. 12 Great Chapel-Street, Soho, or to let him know when and where he (Wm R.) can have the pleasure of seeing him before the next meeting of the subscribers to the literary fund . The writer is much at a loss how to act for want of seeing him and knowing what he has already condescended to do in the business. On the dorse is a draft of (?) part of the preface to Poems Lyric and Pastoral.

Mr Wm Owen, the writer's brother-in-law, wishes him to see the addressee on a business, and if the addressee can make it convenient to meet him this evening about 8 o'clock at the Horse and Groom at Cowbridge he will greatly oblige. On the back of the letter is a copy of an inscription on a stone now at Lanvaughan, the seat of Admiral Thomas, 'which stone was found in the ruins of Crugywheel chapel in the parish of Llanwenog, Cardigansh.'. This forms No. 22 in a series of inscriptions brought together by Taliesin Williams. The account of the inscription is not in the hand of EW but two Biblical quotations are.