Welsh Journals

genious Management of R. & Jane Millward very worthy the imitation of Cottagers in every County and is excellently translated by our Friend our next Number will not be out untill Midsummer from your well known philanthropy we have no doubt of receiving further usefull communications we have heard that Llwyd the poet is now in the midst of Welsh Literature in Hengwrt Library employed by Col- Vaughan to arrange and make a Catalogue of that (formerly) famous depository of ancient Lore.1 I wish he may be equal to the task and that he could write a more legible hand however he hath industry and it will be usefull to know all the Articles that it contains 18, 7, 1807. We have at last finished the 3d Vol of the Archaeology & beg leave to present one Copy to Plas gwyn Library as a token of gratitude we owe to the worthy owner & we likewise return with Thanks the Collection of W[elsh] Proverbs. The contents of the 3d Vol: are various & very curious many of the Articles very inter- esting fully proving that our Ancestors were possessed of more extensive & correct Know- ledge of things than modern times have allowed Them In N.L.W. MS. 476 are three letters, dated August 20, 1776, October 6, 1777, and May 11, 1778, respectively, which were sent by Owen Jones to Dafydd Jones, Trefriw. It remains to be added that the material in the National Library should be studied in conjunction with the many Owen Jones manu- scripts and letters preserved in the British Museum, particularly among those presented by the Cymmrodorion Society in 1844, i.e. Additional MSS. 14962-15089. W. LL. DAVIES. I Richard Llwyd, Bard of Snowdon See Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, I, p. xxi,