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them wrote minutely about their families, their farms, their neighbours, and their churches. Some of them discussed matters of state, systems of government, and political loyalties. Most of the Welsh settlers seem to have espoused the Republican cause. Economic conditions and religious experience are frequent subjects of correspondence for both men and women, and, on the whole, the Welsh emigrants were cheered by the former and chilled by the latter. The economic pros- pects for their children were infinitely brighter than their parents had ever dreamt of before leaving the shores of Wales. Nevertheless, for emigrants nurtured in the strictest puritan atmosphere in the whole course of Welsh history, the change to a land where men were bold enough to make hay on Sunday was not contemplated without serious misgiving. Yet, after allowance is made for hiraeth these letters convey a sense of great contentment and of solid achievement. Especially is this true of the farmer settler who had boys to inherit his clearings. E. D. JONES. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES MANUSCRIPTS 32B. Transcripts by JOHN WILLIAMS (Llanrwst), including a letter to PAUL PANTON from WILLIAM OWEN [-Pughe] (London, 1791 the testimony of Mr. Bowles, chief of the Creek and Cherokee Indians, about White Padoucas who understood Welsh and who had some books which they religiously preserved; he begs Paul Panton to raise a subscription to send explorers to the Padouca country), with remarks by Paul Panton on Mr. Bowles who was not an Indian by birth. English. 92B. An account of the family of MORRIS of Piercefield, Monmouthshire, and of their connections in the West Indies and in the United States. English. 382D. Papers relating to MOSES ELLIS, congregational minister of Mynyddislwyn, Monmouthshire, including a copy of a letter by DANIEL D. Evans and DAVID HOWELLS (Cincinnati, 1848; to Samuel Griffiths and Samuel Roberts, requesting them to offer to Moses Ellis the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Cincinnati; knowledge of English not essential; they want a moderate opponent of slavery). Welsh. 384D. Letters to THOMAS REES, D.D., Congregational minister and historian. The correspondents include ALBERT BARNES (Philadelphia, 1845-56; his Notes on the New Testament; autobiographical details; the Notes translated into Welsh), W. A. JONES (San Francisco, 1876-7; Ebenezer Rees in San Francisco; Professor Tom Price; with a press-cutting recording the death and burial of Ebenezer Rees, 1877), and DOUGI.AS PUTNAM (Marietta, 1862; degree of D.D. conferred upon Thomas Rees). English Welsh.