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- [c. 1841-1867]. (Creation)
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Bookplate of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') on the end-papers of a previous binding.
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A miscellaneous volume (496 pp.; original pagination incorrect) in the autograph of Owen Williams (1790-1874; 'Owain Gwyrfai'), c. 1841-67, of which the main contents are pedigrees of North Wales families transcribed from manuscripts of the Reverend D. Ellis [Cricieth] and Owen Gruffydd, Llanystumdwy and from other sources (with some additions to Owen Williams's own day); transcripts of twenty-four letters, 1752-7 and 1767, from Goronwy Owen to Richard Morris from a (?)manuscript of Mr Loyd [sic], Plasmeini, Festiniog and of eleven letters, 1752-4, from Goronwy Owen to William Morris ('D.S. Dyma lythyrau'r Gwiliedydd im tyb i. O.W.', but this seems doubtful), and extracts transcribed from the introduction to Lewis Morris's 'Celtic Remains' and from [John Reynolds, A Display of Herauldry (1739)] ('Yr hanesion canlynol a dynwyd o hen lyfr achau a argraffwyd o ddeutu amser Cromwel o waith Reinols'). There is a rough index at the beginning and end of the volume. J. H. Davies has written the following note in pencil on the fly-leaf: 'This is the Llyfr Coch which O[wen] W[illiams] always carried under his arm at Eisteddfodau & Literary meetings. It was originally bound in a red cover.'.
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Welsh, English.
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Preferred citation: 456D.
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- Morris, Richard, 1703-1779 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Morris, William, 1705-1763 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Williams, O. (Owen), 1790-1874 (Subject)
- Ellis, David, 1736-1795 (Subject)
- Gruffydd, Owen, approximately 1643-1730 (Subject)
- Owen, Goronwy, 1723-1769? (Subject)
- Morris, Richard, 1703-1779 (Subject)
- Morris, William, 1705-1763 (Subject)
- Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765 (Subject)
- Reynolds, John, fl. 1739 (Subject)
- Owen, Goronwy, 1723-1769? -- Correspondence (Subject)