Miscellaneous documents mostly relating to the Eisteddfod scene and Welsh bards

1-4 Copy accounts (1819) relating to Eifionydd and south west Caernarfonshire

5-8 Letter from Richard Lloyd of Wern to ? (1829). It tells of a sad tale of bad times for farmers and of a lascivious and spendthrift tenant who had turned his wife out of house and home.

9-18 Shop accounts (1829-1834), selling various cloths

19-22 References to the Rev. Evan Lloyd

23-26 Letter from Gwallter Mechain to Sir S.R. Meyrick

27-42 Letters from Caerfallwch to Arfonwyson (1834-1838)

43-75 Letters from prominent Eisteddfodwyr to Gwilym Cowlyd (1862-1902)

76-78 Letters from Gwilym Colwyd to Gwalchmai (1879)

79-98 An adjudication of Ieuan Gwylly upon an anthem competition

99-106 Critical remarts by W.O. Jones (eos y Gogledd) upon the tunes of the "Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd"

107-109 Notes re. Welsh terms - weights, measures, divisions o fthe year

110-112 Letters from Rev. Benjamin Williams (Gwynionydd) to the Rev. Thomas James (Llallawg)

113 Letter from David Parry to Alltud Eifion (1896)

114 Letter from Caradar to Cybi (1921)

115 Letter from Rev. William Pierce to the editor of The Welsh Outlook

116 Letter from J.R. Gabriel of Caerleon to the UCNW Librarian (1930)

Caerfallwch was an accountant and Arfonwyson was an official at the Greenwich Observatory. Each of them published several books and each contributed to the Welsh periodicals of the day.In the 1830's both lived in London. For further biographical details see Enwogion Cymru (Liverpool, 1870) and Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru IV

Gwilym cowlyd was Mr W.J. Roberts of Llanrwst, nephew of Ieuan Glan Geirionydd, and in his time printer, bookseller, bard , adjudicator etc.

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