| Description | A very interesting and large bundle, testifying to diverse personalities and divergent factors.
Thomas Darlington a candidate, strongly supported by local Wesleyens; Anwyl also in the running, a prominent Congregationalist, though one gentleman seriously asked if he was a Methodist (Calvinist). O.M. Edwards strongly fancied by some, though he never actually applied for the post, though others would have none of him; it comes out in one letter that Isaac Foulkes of Liverpool, Llyfrbryf, had no use whatsoever for the editor of Cymru. The Baptist influence in Cardiff councils had to be remembered; it is unfortunate, therfore, that one correspondent misread Cochfarf as Cochfardd. The breezy Professor of Zoology at U.C.W., J.R. Ainsworth Davies, who had married a man relative of Lady Lloyd who had himself — a Churchman) the duty of capturing the Baptist vote, with doubtful success. Sir Marchant Williams was very much alive in the discussions; he was never prevailed upon to support J.E.L. outright; but rather toyed with the idea of supporting E.H. Griffiths of Cambridge, which lend piquency to the very difficult relations that developed between Marchant and Griffiths during the latter's Principalships. |