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Two scrap-books, compiled by 'Golyddan', containing press cuttings of the controversy in Yr Amserau, 1851, on poetic metres between 'Ieuan Gwynedd' and 'Gweirydd ap Rhys', a controversy on music between 'Ap Musicus' and Edward Stephen ('Tanymarian'), and other cuttings of literary interest; and a scrap-book compiled by Catherine Prichard ('Buddug') containing literary press cuttings, including material relating to John Robert Pryse ('Golyddan'), with a draft letter by Robert John Pryse ('Gweirydd ap Rhys').

Over a hundred letters, 1964-1980, from Aneirin Talfan Davies to Katharine Taylor Loesch, University of Illinois, Chicago, relating mainly to personal matters but also containing references to his work and to Welsh and English literature.

Autograph letters, mainly relating to English and Welsh literature and scholarship, the correspondents including John Blackwell ('Alun'), Henry Bradshaw, Lady Eleanor Butler, Sir John Hanmer, A. Hayward, W. Walsham How, Arthur James Johnes, John Jones ('Idrisyn'), W. Basil Jones, R. Harries Jones, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Max Muller, Alfred Ollivant, Sir John Rhys, Thomas Rowland (author of A Grammar of the Welsh Language), A. H. Sayce, T. Vowler Short, Connop Thirlwall, T. F. Tout and Albert Way; with a number of 'cut-out' autographs.

Literary papers from various sources.

'Casgliad Cyflawn o Lên Gwerin Cymru wedi eu cynull o Lyfrau Argraphedig Cymraeg (gan eithrio Y Mabinogion) hyd ymddangosiad Y Brython', written for the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Liverpool, 1900.

Corrected page proofs, 1886, of most of The text of the Mabinogion and other Welsh tales from the Red Book of Hergest, vol. I, edited by John Rhŷs and J. Gwenogvryn Evans (Oxford, 1887); together with reviews of the book, 1887.

A paper by John Ballinger on 'Some Welsh Literary curiosities'.