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- 1901 / (Creation)
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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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Language and script notes
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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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10899B.
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Name access points
- Cymru Fydd Movement -- 1886-1910. (Subject)
- Roberts, R. Silyn (Robert Silyn), 1871-1930 (Subject)
- Gruffydd, W. J. (William John), 1881-1954 (Subject)
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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.
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- 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);