D. M. Richards Manuscripts,

Correspondence and papers relating to Aberdare, including material relating to eisteddfodau, and to religious and political matters; addresses on miscellaneous social and welfare issues in Wales; sermons; ballads and poems; and chronological indexes to eisteddfodau from the earliest times to the twentieth century.

David Morgan Richards (1853-1913), journalist and 'eisteddfodwr', was born near Llanon, Ceredigion. He worked as a representative of the Merthyr Express and the South Wales Daily News and was active within the Welsh community. He is best remembered for his Rhestr Eisteddfodau hyd 1901, which was published posthumously in 1914.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 3461-3472, 7292-7315.

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David Morgan Richards (1853-1913), journalist and 'eisteddfodwr', was born near Llanon, Ceredigion. He worked as a representative of the Merthyr Express and the South Wales Daily News and was active within the Welsh community. He is best remembered for his Rhestr Eisteddfodau hyd 1901, which was published posthumously in 1914.

NLW MSS 7292-7315 consist of material collected by Richards in connection with his study of 'eisteddfodau', etc. held in Wales and elsewhere. After the death of the compiler the material was examined by John Davies, a member of the staff of the National Library of Wales, and the substance of the work (as far as the year 1901) published as Rhestr eisteddfodau hyd y flwyddyn 1901 gyda nodiadau ar amryw ohonynt ... (Llandyssul, 1914).

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943) and Volume II (Aberystwyth, 1951).

June 2005

This description was compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was use din teh compilation of tis description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 1, Dictionary of Welsh biography down to 1940 (Oxford, 1959);

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