| Description | Ashton had been (as he says) "engaged for some years in the investigation of the changes on the coasts of Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales" and had published in May 1909 "The Battle of Land and Sea". In 1920 he brought forth a much more ambitious work, "The Evolution of a Coast-Line", a particularly competent production. The letter of 1910 seeks an interview with Cynhaiarn "as an authority on the changes in the South Carnarvon coast." Whether they arranged such a meeting is not clear; in any case Cynhaiarn is not thanked for help on p. 3 of "The Evolution" of 1920 - the one Portmadoc man that figures there is Mr David Morris (see Bangor Mss 2409-2410). |