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Papers from the collection of William Roberts which include correspondence; sermons; miscellaneous notes and accounts; volume four of an essay in five volumes on the poets and writers of Gwent and Glamorgan; and reports and accounts relating to collieries and iron-works in South Wales.

Three volumes relating to the work of 'Nefydd' as a printer, 1864-1868.

Two notebooks containing miscellaneous memoranda.

Extracts from books and journals, including poems and 'The Address of the Ancient Britons to ... The Prince of Wales, March 1st, 1773'.

Miscellanea, including a draft of an application by E. P. Jones for admission to an educational institution.

Miscellanea of 'Nefydd', including drafts of letters to the press, articles, and addresses, together with an account of the life and work of 'Nefydd' by Thomas Phillips.

Printed material, much of it with manuscript notes by 'Nefydd' and Daniel Jones. Among the printed matter are copies of 'Cywydd Llyntegid' by Morris Roberts, Bala; copies of appeals on behalf of the Academical Institution at Abergavenny, dispensaries at Liverpool, the Baptist Theological Institution at Pontypool, a 'Normal' College for Wales, (at Brecon, afterwards in Swansea), the Baptist chapel at Penrose, Monmouthshire; advertisements, circulars, prospectuses, etc., relating to a Welsh Reform meeting to be held in Liverpool in 1840, 'Diwygwyr Cymreig Llynlleifiad', the Liverpool Auxiliary of the Baptist Missionary Society, and 'Cymdeithas Gyhoeddiadol Bedyddwyr Cymru'; papers relating to eisteddfod meetings at Liverpool; prospectus of a proposed 'Hanes y Bedyddwyr' by Ben Jones ('P. A. Môn') with notes sent to 'Nefydd' by Ben Jones's son concerning his father's materials for such a 'Hanes'; poems; two copies, with manuscript revisions by 'Nefydd', of the third edition of Golygiad byr ar Fedydd Gristnogol. Gan John Craps. Wedi ei gyfieithu gan R. Jones, Llanllyfni; etc.

Two volumes of printed tracts, circulars, etc., mostly relating to religious meetings, committees, etc., in Liverpool and district, with sermon notes by Daniel Jones, etc.

Miscellaneous items including diary entries, January-February 1855, by William Roberts ('Nefydd'), mainly relating to his duties as South Wales agent for the British and Foreign School Society (ff. 1-5v); an essay in Welsh 'Traethawd ar y Lles y mae Dadguddiad Dwyfol wedi ei wneud i ddyn fel bod cymdeithasol' by 'Eiddil Clydach' (?Edmund Morgan), apparently written for the Brynyfryd eisteddfod, Ebbw Vale, 1854 (cf. NLW MS 7133C) (ff. 7-11v); and a list, late 18 cent., of members of the Cymmrodorion Society in London (f. 12r-v).

Miscellaneous printed pamphlets, addresses, poems, programmes, etc., with sermon notes, fragments of poems in manuscripts, etc.

Notes on 'Edmund Jones O'r Transh' (near Pontypool), notes for an address given at Pwllheli in 1868, a summary of resolutions passed at a monthly meeting of Baptists in Caernarvonshire, and adjudications on eisteddfod essays, all in the autograph of 'Nefydd', together with a copy of a letter of appreciation which accompanied a testimonial made to him in 1867 in recognition of his services to education and to the national eisteddfod of Wales; a list of books, in the autograph of W. R. Roberts ('Ap Nefydd'), and with a note by him on E. R. G. Salusbury who bought some books from the 'Nefydd' library; etc.

Miscellanea relating mainly to the Baptist cause in Wales, and including printed items, sermon notes, fragments of letters, etc.

Poems, etc., submitted for competition at 'eisteddfodau', including 'Galareb am y diweddar Syr J. J. Guest, Barwnig, Aelod Seneddol dros Ferthyr Tudful, a Pherchenog Gweithfa Haiarn Dowlais ...', 'Cân o glod i P. Levick ... am ei ymdrech mewn cyssylltiad ac ail gychwyniad Gwaith y Blaina', 'Traethawd ar Rhwymedigaethau Cristionogion i Daenu yr Ysgrythyrau Santaidd trwy yr holl Fyd ac i ddysgu Dynolryw yn eu hegwyddorion'; a portion of a Greek-English glossary; etc.

An account book, 1866-1871, of No. 2 Black Pins Pit colliery, Nant-y-glo, containing a monthly record of work carried out, by hauliers, daymen, etc. and wages paid including particulars of deductions and cash advances. 'No. 2 Black Pins Pit. Henry Whittington' is inscribed inside the front cover.

Memoranda an accounts kept by 'Nefydd', together with a note by him on his ancestry.

A copy of a prospectus of the work by 'Nefydd' which was published in 1852 as Crefydd yr Oesoedd Tywyll ... yn cynnwys y Traethawd Gwobrwyol yn Eisteddfod y Fenni ar Mari Lwyd ..., a list of orders for copies, etc.

The original manuscript of 'Ymgais at roddi crynodeb o "Hanes dechreuad Mary Lwyd, neu y Pen Ceffyl a ddygir yn gyffredin yn amser Nadolig mewn llawer rhan o'r Dywysogaeth ..." ' by, and in the autograph of, 'Nefydd' and published as part of his Crefydd yr Oesoedd Tywyll ... (Carmarthen, 1852).

Letters addressed mainly to William Roberts (Nefydd), by W. R. Baxter, 1858-1860; Thomas Butter (ysgrifennydd Côr Dirwest Dowlais), 1857; William Cosslett (Gwilym Eilian); Edward Davies, Cowbridge, 1842; Joseph Joseph, Brecon, 1872; Lewis Llewellyn, Risca, 1856; Robert Roberts, Nannerch; Joseph Williams, Liverpool, 1852; T. Williams (Hafrenydd), 1856; E. P. Williams, Bassaleg, 1867-1869; Edw. D. J. Wilks, London, 1857; Samuel Roberts (S.R.), 1852; John Phillips, Boro Road, 1855; Hugh Owen, Whitehall, 1860, (on eisteddfod reform); Daniel and Jane Jones, Cowbridge and Llanelly, 1843-6; Evan Jones, Bedwellty, 1857; John James, Bridgend, 1842; W. Davies, Llandilo, 1857; W. Dugdale, Blaina; W. M. Evans, Carmarthen, 1857; Thomas Evans, Solva, 1857; James Griffiths, Beaufort, 1857; William Hoad, Manchester, 1848 (to Daniel Jones to know whether there would be any purpose in placing his name before the congregation as a possible minister); Jane Jones to her son Ebenezer R. Jones, 1838; notes and circulars by William Roberts (Nefydd); a certificate of the subscription of statutory oaths by Daniel Jones, a dissenting minister, at the Carmarthen Quarter Sessions, 15 July 1812; calls to Daniel Jones from Baptist churches at New Street, Liverpool, 1818; Penrhyncoch, 1823, Newport, 1842, Caernarvon, 1846, and Velin Vole, 1845.

A miscellany containing a metrical dissertation on Psalm 8, verses 3 and 4, followed by a poem dealing with the seven planets; 'Darlleniad diwiol'; 'Carol i Fair', beginning 'Yngwledydd Judea yr oedd Zackaria'; a part of a carol by Mathe[w] Owen; a 'cywydd', a 'dyri', and a carol by Huw Morus; a 'dyri' by Edwart Rolant ('o'r bala'); 'Erapater dros byth a gaed o lyfr Thomas Jones ... 1701'; farm notes for 1702; etc. -- Much of the volume is in the hand of Richard Roberts, whose name, with the date 'Mai 21, 1699', appears on one folio. At the end of the manuscript is the note: - 'Llyfr y coch o Hergist yn y glasgoed y mae ef'.

A fragment of a volume described as 'Llyfr Kowyddav y Masdr [Hwmffre] Huws or deirnion siryf veirionydd ...', containing autograph 'cywyddau', some of them eulogising him, by Thomas Penllyn, Rhisiart Phylip, Tuder Owen, Sion Cain, and Huw Machno (some of them being dated 1619), together with other 'cywyddau' by Sion Cent, etc.