| Disgrifiad | Under A there are the letters of the Rev David Adams, and old friend of Sir John who died before being admitted to the honorary degree of D.D., giving thanks for the help he received in writing certain sections of Yr Eglwys a Gwareiddiad Diweddar, pub. in 1914 (4-6). Sir Edward Anwyl refers to his application for the Welsh chair at the U.C.W. in 1892 (11) and to the knighthood that came to him so suddenly in 1911 (13-14). Charles Ashton, the researching policeman (16-20) and William Ashton, the student of sea erosion (21-22). Professors Bruce of Cardiff (32-36) and Ed. Edwards of Aberystwyth (76-80) were glad to consult him over syllabuses, courses, and variant texts. In the D. section we find Thomas Darlington discussing place-names (44-45), David Davies of Penarth inquiring about ancient tithes (51-52), John Glyn Davies expatiating on Irish dialects (56-58), W. Cadwaladr Davies giving information about J.R. Phillips, the Civil War historian (62), W.E. Davies unable to give further details about who exactly Sir Hugh Owen's wife was (66), and H.W.C. Davis interested in the career of his sister Muriel, at one time (1899-1900) a student at the U.C.N.W., and known to a later generation as Warden of University Hall (67-68). The E. section is no less interesting: letters from O.M. Edwards (84-96), T.E. Ellis (108-127), E. Vincent Evans (139A-144) wanting new material for the Cymmrodor, and J. Gwenogfryn Evans (151-159), busy deciphering O.W. texts, and very much concerned about the sales of the texts that had been published. Chancellor John Fisher is in perplexity (in 1908) about the Saint Llwydion of Hen Eglwys in Anglesey and the Marcellus - Marcellinus of Llanddeusant in the same county (167-170). Four letters from W. Werde Fowler of Lincoln College (172-6). The G's are not so prolific: a letter from the widow of J.R. Green (190), from Ellis Jones Griffith of Ty Coch, the later M.P., congratulting J.E.L. on his honourbale place in London Matriculation (192), from Elphin the pungent critic (198-200). Hassall the historian (210) and Thomes Hodgkin (213). In 253 a young John Morris-Jones defends with zest the opinions of Pelagius and waxes eloquent on theology generally. Sir Sidney Lee on D.N.B. matters (266-8), Elfed has three letters with no definition of year (275-7), A.G. Little (281), Sir Richard Lodge (284-5). There is a long batch of letters (299-335) from his old U.C.W. friend J.W. Marshall of the Classics Dept., ranging from 1887 to 1914 - family gossip, Senate matters, appointments, dramatics. Sir Lewis Morris writes of the Morris brothers (341), and T.E. Morris of problems about personal names (350). A neat batch of letters from A.N. Palmer (372-9) is followed by a bunch in execrable script from Egerton Phillimore (380-390). Outstandingly interesting are the letters of the old Balliol Oxonian J. Arthur Price (414-457), what with his regrets at his poor class in History, his adventures in journalism, his inauspicious love affair, his fierce diatribes against Tom Ellis, his incipient nationalism blossoming forth into support of Welsh Disestablishment, his High Church views, and his girding at J.E.L. for doing scant justice to the Welsh Jacobites in the D.N.B. The remaining sections are not sensational: L.J. Roberts applying for the History chair at the U.C.W. in 1892 (496); letters from J.F. (now Sir Frederick) Rees, (467-474); from Sir John Rh?s (480-487); from Sir Lleufer Thomes relating to J.E.L.'s early articles in the D.N.B. (534-537); from T.F. Tout as far back as 1888 (544-547). 592 is a really eloquent exposition of the Cymry Fydd Movement by W. LLewelyn Williams. Note. Though W.E. Davies, Sir Hugh Owen's biographer, writing to J.E.L. in 1894 was unable to give any details about Sir Hugh Owen's wife except that she was an English lady (66), Lleufer Thomas gives her name as Ann Wade in the B.N.B., pub. 1895. |