An Essay on the Island of Anglesey

'An Essay on the Island of Anglesey', 1832, in an unidentified hand, apparently the original version submitted by the Rev. Peter Bailey Williams in the competition for an essay on the history of Anglesey at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod, 1832, winning the second prize for its author.
The essay was published in The Gwyneddion for 1832: Containing the Prize Poems, &c., of the Beaumaris Eisteddfod and North Wales Literary Society, ed. by W. Jones (London, 1839), pp. 1-97. The first prize was won by Angharad Llwyd for the work later published as A History of the Island of Mona, or Anglesey (Ruthin, 1833). Williams may have forwarded his work to the competition in the hand of an amanuensis in order to disguise the authorship from the adjudicator, his fellow diocesan cleric, the Rev. J. H. Cotton.

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Mrs Gwen Davies; Taliesin, Machynlleth; Purchase; December 2002; 0200300747.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23899E.

March 2012.

Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;

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Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23899E). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4282784. Date: 20030512. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23899E) : Some paper loss from spine, edges of corners and some pages damaged. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23899E). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4282784. Date: 20041217. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Jenkins. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23899E) : Repaired damaged edges. Institution: WlAbNL.

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