Welsh Journals

DEPOSITED COLLECTIONS. THE LLANFAIR AND BRYNODOL DOCUMENTS. Amongst correspondence of the GRIFFITH family in this collection is a letter to HUGH GRIFFITH (Caernarvon) from EVAN THOMAS (Maryland, Chester River, 1708 his good and beneficial office with fees settled by Act of Assembly of the province amounting to 30,000 lbs. of tobacco great writing business enquiring for a clerk assistant Herbert Griffith's business and death near Annapolis he is building a house in expectation of his wife's emigration, and to comply with the law that all clerks should reside at the towns where the courts are kept). English. TENNESSEE PAPERS (LUTHER THOMAS DEPOSIT). Correspondence and memoranda, 1856-64, relating to the purchase of lands and the Welsh settlement in East Tennessee projected by WILLIAM BEBB (Illinois) and G. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM and JOHN ROBERTS JONES, and SAMUEL and RICHARD ROBERTS (all of Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire). The correspondents include EDWARD BEBB (Foun- taindale, &c.) JAS. E. GOLL (New York), L. D. HOWELL (Utica), E. B. JONES (Monticello), William JONES (Brynffynnon), RICHARD ROBERTS (Brynffynnon), E. D. SAXTON (New York), BENJAMIN J. Timms (New York), JOHN G. VAUGHAN (Salem, Illinois), and MARY VAUGHAN (Paddy's Run). WILLIAM BEBB'S letters relate also to American politics and to the Civil War. There are, in addition, a large number of draft letters by SAMUEL ROBERTS (' S.R.') and memoranda by him on the difficulties which the settlers experienced over the title to their purchases, and on the unsatisfactory arrangements made for them by SAXTON, Jones, and BEBB. English Welsh. THE DILLWYN DIARIES AND PAPERS. This collection includes minutes of William DILLWYN'S voyage from Philadelphia to Bristol, 1774, diaries of his tour in Great Britain, his return to America, 1775, and his voyage to England, 1777, and genealogical memoranda of the DILLWYN family. English. THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD MANUSCRIPTS. Subjects relating to the history and activities of Welshmen abroad have been set for competition from time to time at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The original manu- scripts deposited in the National Library include three entries in a competition for a hand- book on emigration for Welsh farmers and workers at the London Eisteddfod, 1887, and the manuscript of' An enquiry as to the extent to which Welshmen from home retain their peculiar characteristics in the lands of their adoption', submitted to the Mountain Ash Eisteddfod, 1905, by D. JONES (Scranton). Welsh.