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A transcript by David Richards ('Dafydd Ionawr') of a letter sent 23 July 1767 from Brunswick, Virginia by Goronwy Owen to Richard Morris, London, and also of the elegy on Lewis Morris which accompanied it; a sketch, made for W[illiam] W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne, 1839, of the seal of the Corporation of Harlech, 1559.

Transcripts of letters from Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) to William (1705-1763) and Richard Morris (1703-1779). The transcripts were possibly made for Robert Jones, Rotherhithe (1810-1879) for his edition of The Poetical Works of Goronwy Owen ... (London, 1876).

A manuscript in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing a copy of the Rev. Richard Farringdon's 'Numismata Dinlleana or a brief account ... of certain ancient and curious medals found at Dinas Dinlle in Carnarvonshire', including detailed descriptions of each medal, with sketches of the lives of the Emperors depicted upon them, and also an account of Dinas Dinlle (ff. 1-38); a 'Botanologium', with names of plants in Latin, Welsh and English (ff. 39-58); poetry, by poets including Tudur Aled and William and Siôn Phylip (ff. 59-82); pedigrees (ff. 83-96); a letter, dated 26 October 1769, from Richard Morris, at the Tower of London, relating to books of ?Goronwy Owen (ff. 121-122); a note by Ieuan Fardd, 'On my 38th birthday, June 1st 1769' (f. 123); and various other extracts, etc.

(a) A notebook inscribed 'Rd Morris Navy Office London, 22d Sept. 1769' (see NLWJ ,9 (1955-56), 109); (b) Memoranda relating to the 1746 edition of the Welsh Bible, etc. Iolo Morganwg has supplied a list of contents and has added a note on the Welsh word 'crwth'; (c) A sheet containing a list of Welsh words with their meanings, etc. On the reverse side in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg are some sayings subscribed 'Ths Lln Regoes'.