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Ceiriog manuscripts Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
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A volume containing press-cuttings, consisting of adjudications, notes on old Welsh melodies, poems, etc., by Ceiriog; notes relating to Brinley Richards; accounts of various eisteddfodau, etc. There is one autograph poem entitled 'The train'. There are a few other papers including a telegram, 17 December 1855, asking Ceiriog to compose four lines for a memorial card from [?Roger] Edwards, Mold, a portion of a letter from Ceiriog to 'Alaw' and three autograph verses, [1860x1879].

Press cuttings

The first of two volumes (see also NLW MS 4553D) containing press cuttings collected by John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog) which were previously pasted into the volume now NLW MS 4551E.
This volume contains cuttings of contemporary English poetry by various poets, 1846-1853 and undated (ff. 1-67, 70-71), and English articles, book reviews and reports on a variety of subjects, [1850]-1864 and undated (ff. 68-70, 71-92, 94-107). Two cuttings relating to the 1861 census are in Welsh (f. 93).

Press cuttings

The second of two volumes (see also NLW MS 4552D) containing press cuttings, 1827, [1850]-1871 and undated, collected by John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog) which were previously pasted into the volume now NLW MS 4551E.
This volume contains cuttings of poetry, book reviews, eisteddfod programmes, posters, reports of meetings in the Manchester district and in Wales, etc., mainly in Welsh.