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Fragments of Y Brython and other printed works compiled by D. Silvan Evans.

Miscellaneous papers, mostly printed, of ?the Reverend D. Silvan Evans, comprising notices of books and subscription lists, papers relating to Church affairs, the University of Wales, Welsh literature, etc., Welsh verse, petitions, etc.

The file includes letters from J. Gwynoro Davies (1), 1884, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), 1884, D. Silvan Evans, 1885, and Sir Henry Jones, 1884.

The file includes letters from A. H. D. Acland (3), Bishop A. G. Edwards, D. Silvan Evans (4), Thomas Gee, J. Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'), Michael D. Jones, Daniel Owen (4), H. Isambard Owen, J. Herbert Roberts (Lord Clwyd), W. Llewelyn Williams

The file includes letters from E. V. Arnold, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), D. Silvan Evans, John M. Howell, Aberaeron, Thomas Levi, Aberystwyth (2), J Herbert Lewis, H. Isambard Owen, Bishop John Owen (2), R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos'), D. Lleufer Thomas.

The file also contains letters bearing some family, domestic and personal news. The file includes letters from Bishop A. G. Edwards, 1890, Canon D. Silvan Evans, 1899, E. Herber Evans (3), 1891-1892, Sir E. Vincent Evans, 1886, Thomas Gee, 1897, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), 1902, J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), (2), 1902-1903, John T. Job (7), 1892-1903, W. Goscombe John (16), 1895-1903, Sir Henry Jones, Glasgow, 1893, T. Gwynn Jones, 1901, H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed') (3), 1891-1900, Lewis William Lewis ('Llew Llwyfo'), 1893, Eluned Morgan, 1895, H. Isambard Owen, 1899, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon') (4), 1899-1902, Evan Rees ('Dyfed'), 1896, R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos') (3), 1901-1903, Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1901, Edward Thomas ('Cochfarf') (9), 1899-1903, and Eifion Wyn (2), 1894-1897.

Biographical notes on Welshmen written by Walter Davies, John Jenkins, and D. Silvan Evans.

A dummy of the first volume of Gwaith ... Walter Davies ..., containing misellaneous notes mainly by D. Silvan Evans.

Letters addressed to David Lewis, mainly on matters relating to Welsh music, 'eisteddfodau' and the bibliography and biography of music. The correspondents are Anne Edwards, Aberystwyth, 1903, Creigvryn Edwards, Ruabon, 1887, Peter Edwards ('Pedr Alaw'), 1893, Principal Thomas Charles Edwards, 1889, Dr William Edwards, Cardiff, 1903, William Ellis, Llanrwst, Abergele, Conway and St Asaph, 1869-1893, A. I. Evans, Haverfordwest, D[aniel] Silvan Evans, Llanwrin, 1875-1881, David Evans, London and Warrnambool, 1864-1898, Archdeacon David Evans, Llandudno, 1903-1906, D[avid] Emlyn Evans, 1867-1904, Samuel Evans, Carmarthen ['Gomerydd'], 1852, William Evans ('Alaw Afan'), 1883, and W[illiam] M[organ] Evans, Carmarthen, 1868.

Letters, 1837-1932, the correspondents including E. D. Bryan, Robert Bryan, John Davies (Bontddu), Principal Ellis Edwards, Dr. Samuel Evans (Johannesburg), D. Silvan Evans, Edward Griffiths (Meifod), O. G. Owen ('Alafon'), and John Phillips (Bangor).

Miscellanea, including a poem entitled 'The Death of King Teudric. A Legend of Tintern', by W. H. Greene; poems by Sir Lewis Morr[i]s [1833-1907] and R[ees] J[enkin] J[ones] [1835-1924]; letters from Jona Barff (Oswestry) to Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain') [1761-1849], Thomas Burgess (bishop of St. Davids) [1756-1837] to Walter Davies and John Jenkins ('Ifor Ceri') [1770-1829], D[aniel] Silvan Evans [1818-1903] to -, John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog') [1832-1887] to -, and Richard Price (Llantrisant) to Christopher Limner Cartwright; etc.

One of four volumes containing a collection of nearly two hundred letters addressed to Thomas Powel. They relate to matters to Welsh education, bibliography, philology and Celtic subjects. The principal correspondents are Edward Arber, Birmingham (to Llywarch Reynolds), 1884; George Duckett Barber Beaumont, Stoke Poges (to John [sic] [i.e. Thomas] Stephens, Merthyr [Tydfil]), 1855, enclosing a copy of his Ancient Oral Records of the Cimri and referring to other Welsh poems the meaning of which could be recovered by his method of literal translation into the Aramitic [Aramaic] language; Walter Bezant [Lowe], 1878-1880; John S[utherland] Black, Edinburgh, resident editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1886-1887; G[eorge] G[ranville] Bradley, Westminster, 1889; J[ohn] Collingwood Bruce, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1886; J. Bryce, Lincoln's Inn; Charles J. Clark, printer, 1896; E[dward] B[yles] Cowell, Cambridge, 1882-1883; D[avid] Charles Davies, Trefecca, 1890; John Davies, Hampstead, 1884; John Davies, Pandy, 1896; T[homas] Witton Davies, Haverfordwest, 1890; Lewis Davi[e]s, Ferndale, 1886; W[illiam] Boyd Dawkins, Manchester, 1882; Arthur de la Borderie, 1883; J. R. Dore, Huddersfield, 1878-1889; John Duncan, Cardiff, 1890; Charles [Isaac] Elton, London, 1884; D[aniel] Silvan Evans, 1879-1883; E[van] W[illiam] Evans, Dolgelley, 1917; T[homas] C[hristopher] Evans ('Cadrawd'), 1906.

Articles, addresses, notes and press cuttings by David Samuel relating to Aberystwyth, D. Silvan Evans, etc., 1887-1895.

Articles and notes by David Samuel on Llandovery School, Sir Owen M. Edwards and D. Silvan Evans.

An interleaved copy, with numerous additions and corrections by Owen Jones, of Lewis Morris (ed. D. Silvan Evans): Celtic Remains ... (London, 1878).

Transcripts by Owen Jones from Volume One of a collection of Latin hymns edited by H. A. Daniel and published at Halle, 1841-1846, and of notes by D. Silvan Evans and Lewis Edwards, published in Bye-gones, 1879, relating to the authorship of the Welsh hymn beginning 'Myfi yw'r Adgyfodiad mawr'.

'Mynegai o Hymnau o Gasgliad y Parch. Daniel Evans, D.D.', i.e. Hymnau er gwasanaeth yr Eglwys yn Nghymru ... Wedi eu dethol a'u trefnu gan y Parch. Daniel Evans ... (Llundain, 1887).

A copy of Charles Ashton: Gweithiau Iolo Goch gyda nodiadau hanesyddol a beirniadol (Croesoswallt, 1896), with annotations, some if not all by J. H. Davies. Inside the volume is a notebook probably in the autograph of Charles Ashton containing a list of the poems of Iolo Goch, with particulars of sources, etc., a shorter list in the autograph of D. Silvan Evans with a reference to a manuscript (then at Llanwrin, now Cwrtmawr MS 325) in the autograph of Wiliam Henri [sic] Mounsey, 1859, and a letter, [19]22, from Henry Lewis, Swansea to Principal [J. H.] Davies.

Seven volumes containing several hundred letters, 1867-1916, most of them addressed to Daniel Davies, Ton, Ystrad, Glamorgan. Among the numerous correspondents, many of whom were Calvinistic Methodist ministers, are Ben Bowen, David Charles Davies, W. D. Davies (Hyde Park, Scranton, U.S.A.), Lewis Edwards, Roger Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Daniel Silvan Evans, Henry Tobit Evans, Thomas Gee, John Griffith (Wiarton, Ontario), James Griffiths (Mankato, Minnesota, U.S.A.), William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), W. T. Rees ('Alaw Ddu'), J. J. Roberts ('Iolo Caernarfon'), John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt'), Daniel Rowland (Normal College, Bangor), John Thomas ('Eifionydd') and William Thomas ('Islwyn').

Thirty-two letters and one postcard, 1869-90, to D. Silvan Evans from Howel W[illiam] Lloyd (1816-93), Upper Chelsea and Kensington ('Y Marchog Crwydrad', mention of 'Llyfr Ceniarth', a manuscript containing poems by Huw Arwystli [sic], etc., bibliographical matters, his efforts to collect the poems of Guto'r Glyn, the addressee's dictionary).