Item 687. - Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tydfil, to Edward Williams, Bardic Lodge, Flimston,

Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tydfil, to his father, Mr Edward Williams, Bardic Lodge, Flimston, Cowbridge. Mr Williams the Banker did not mention the day that he expected EW at Newbridge. The writer had no idea that his father would be there on Monday and Tuesday. They wish he had been able to come here. Nancy has made up her mind to give up her school. He will take his mother in a chaise to Flimston in the ensuing vacation - the addressee and Peggy must be kind and attentive to her. She is very poorly indeed. He was not at the Eisteddfod - he could not muster the money. The names of the prize- winners. The subjects for the next Powys Eisteddfod. He intends trying his skill on all of them, and hopes to succeed, with the addressee's assistance. He has commenced on Dinystr Jerusalem - his plan. He purposes, if he satisfies himself in the composition, so as to hold out a good hope of success, to take the addressee with him, in a hired gig, to the Eisteddfod. Requesting his father to do his best for him. He considers his Awdl 'Ar y Dydd Byrraf' far superior to any of the prize poems. He will send some money to Eglwysbrewis in the course of a fortnight - his school increases. He hopes that Peggy is careful and does her best. Telling him not to let this letter fall under the eye of anyone. Endorsed: 'Taliesin. Account of the last Carmarthen Eisteddfod 1823'.