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- 1847-1880 (Creation)
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1 vol. (28 ff.)
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Notebook entitled ‘Barddoniaeth’ (Poetry), containing poems in Welsh and English and other compositions by John Lewis, son of Anne Lewis, the old nurse of Sir Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, compiled at Cardiff, 1879-1880. The contents include ‘Ar Drefn Natur’, ‘Ar Ddyfodiad Syr Pryse Pryse i gyflawn oed ai etifeddiaeth ar y 18 Ionawr 1858’, ‘What this doleful sound they are making? ‘ (on the death of a young girl in a coal pit at Aberavon), 1851; other poems to the heir of Gogerddan, the Marquis of Bute, 1872, and Charles Bird of St John’s church, Canton, 1877, together with reminiscences on John Lewis’s own career and the life of his mother, Anne Lewis (d. 1867); with enclosures, 1847.
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- English
- Welsh
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Mainly English, some Welsh
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File title is original.
Note
Enclosed: a newspaper cartoon of two dogs with explanatory note by John Lewis on dorse; and Sir Pryse Pryse’s lock of hair when 9 years of age, 1847, kept by Anne Lewis.
Note
Previous ref: NLW Gogerddan 1702.