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The manuscript is described on the inside upper cover, in the hand of J. H. Davies, as being from the library of the Reverend Bankes Price late of Dole, Lampeter.
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A scrap-book of transcripts and a few newspaper cuttings containing 'Dywediadau Dillyn (O'r Ffrangcaeg)'; 'Diarhebion amaethyddol'; 'Hen Ddiarhebion Cymreig'; 'Diarhebion Cymreig'; a letter of Canon T. W. Farrar to Mr (aft. Sir) [John Henry] Puleston, MP, 1884 (the death by suicide of Dean Edwards of Bangor); obituary notices, 1884, of H[enry] T[homas] Edwards, dean of Bangor; 'Christmas Sayings'; miscellaneous poetry (e.g. 'A Welsh Classic' by H. H. Ballard, 'Epitaph on the Marquis of Anglesey's Leg, which had been lost at the Battle of Waterloo' by [George] Canning, 'Poem ... on Dean Stanley' [i.e. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, dean of Westminster] by H. E. O. Edwards, 'Speech Day' 1881, 'Esgob [Joshua] Hughes, Llanelwy', 1884, 'A Hymn, composed by Dean [David] Howell ['Llawdden'] of St David's and sung at his Funeral in the Cathedral Jan. 21 1903'); etc. Among the insets are 'Gweddi Brdynhawnol' [sic], a fragment of a draft topographical dictionary (comprising Mallwyd, Llan y Mawddwy, [Llang]ynyw, and Meifod), printed hymns, etc. The volume was originally a blank Catalogue and Register of a Parochial Lending Library under the sanction of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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English, Welsh.
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Preferred citation: 156C.
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- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) (Subject)
- Edwards, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1837-1884 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Paget, Henry William, 1768-1854 First Marquess of Anglesey -- Poetry (Subject)
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Hughes, Joshua, 1807-1889 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Howell, David, d. 1903 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Farrar, T. W. (Subject)
- Puleston, John Henry, 1829-1908 (Subject)