File NLW MS 10899B. - Review,

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NLW MS 10899B.

Title

Review,

Date(s)

  • 1901 / (Creation)

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Robert Arthur Griffith (Elphin, 1860-1936), author and lawyer, was born in Caernarfon, the son of John Owen Griffith (Ioan Arfon, 1828-1881). Elphin was a keen eisteddfodwr and also contributed as literary critic to Welsh periodicals such as Y Geninen.

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'Welsh Lyrics', being the original manuscript of a review by Robert Arthur Griffith ('Elphin'), published in The Arvonian, April, 1901, of R. Silyn Roberts and W. J. Gruffydd: Telynegion (Bangor, 1900). The greater part of the review is written on the dorse of leaflets entitled 'Cyngrair Cymru Fydd. Sut i ffurfio cangenau'.

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Language of material

  • English
  • Welsh

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English, Welsh.

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Finding aids

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 267.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10899B.

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vtls004586187

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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Dates of creation revision deletion

November 2008.

Language(s)

  • English

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Archivist's note

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

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  • Text: NLW MS 10899B.