Welsh Journals

16 Nicholson, 120, 124. 17 MS, 35. 18 MS, 49-82. 19 John Philpot Curran 1730-1817. 20 MS, 61. 21 MS, 62. 22 MS, 76-8. 23 MS, 71. i.e. Henry Grattan 1746-1820, Member of the Irish Parliament; initiator of the motion for Irish legislative and later government independence from Britain; and supporter of Catholic Emancipation. 24 MS, 95. 25 MS, 126. 26 MS, 156. 27 op. cit., 252. 28 Nicholson & Axon, 119-130, Nicholson, 109-29. 29 Nicholson, 109-25. 30 Shepherd MSS, IV & VI, Manchester College Oxford. 31 MS, 126. 32 Esther Moir, The Discovery of Britain: The English Tourists 1 540-1840 (1964); Gwynfryn Walters, Tourist and Guide Book Literature of Wales, 1770-1870, unpublished thesis University College of Wales, 2 Vols. (1967). 33 A. H. Dodd, The Industrical Revolution in North Wales (1971), 168; Elizabeth Beazley, Madocks and the Wonders of Wales (1967), 41. 34 MS, 106-11; Beazley, 39-41. 35 MS, 12. 36 MS, 35-8; Dodd, 214. 37 MS, 76, 80-1. 38 Book of Trinity College Dublin 1541-1891 (1892), 109. 39 MS, 123. 40 MS, 122. Cf. William Gilpin, Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape (1792), 6-7; and Sir Uvedale Price, Essays on Picturesque Beauty, etc, 2 Vols. (1794-1798), I, 44-5. 41 Cf. Price, II, 121-5. Price in the 1810 edition of the Essays (III, 38-41) more clearly expounds his idea of the necessity of 'neglect' in landscape. 42 Sir James E. Smith, A Tour to Hafod (1810), 13. This passage cut through the rock was an idea of Johnes' to create the dramatic effect of suddenly coming upon the waterfall. 43 i.e. Plant Matt, or Matthew's Children of Tregaron. 44 See fn. 42. 45 He means the Ystwyth. 46 MS, 115-24. 47 MS, 124-6. 48 MS, 127. 49 MS, 140-1. 50 MS, 128. 51 MS, 15. 52 MS, 144. 53 MS, 146. I wish to thank Liverpool Public Libraries and Record Office for information on the Yates family and William Shepherd; and Mr. M. H. Fitzpatrick, Mr. C. S. Briggs and Mr. G. Walters for their invaluable help and advice in preparing this article. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS