WELSH LITERATURE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
Sin—Permit me to call your attention to an error into which you have fallen in your review of Lady Co.% newt re G 'JEST'S intr.' eating translation of
the of l Welsh ramance of The Lardy of the Fountoin. In the artit.le iu woe:tie:1, you allude to the •• Welsh Manuscript Society" as a sanely which h is exn-tell for twelve yea's, and during that period has entirely neg!eeted the
object for which it was established. It occurs to Boa that these ten." ke must have urigineted in an impression on your part thet the Welsh MSS. So. eine y is idelitical with the Cyminrodton, or mime long.establislaal association. The fist is, that the Society alluded to by you is of very recent ori4imr. It was found,a1 last year. 18:37, at Abergavenoy. With regard to its supposed neglect of Welsh literature, you will, I doubt not, agree with one that it is as yet
premature to condemn it on that ground. Unhappily, we cannot move iu these matters in Wales with the same railroad velocity that public objects are attained in latialou and other large towns. But 1 have vilely reason to believe that the seciety has already employed several eminent Welsh scholars to pre. pare MSS. fur the press, and that we shall ere long enjoy the fruits of their labours.
Lady CH A nr.orri:, whose services in the cause of W'elsh literature you so justly eulogize, ii a member of the MSS. Society.
1 mutant, Sir, yours faithfully,
A 3iF.NIBER or TIER WELSH MSS. SOCIET7.
[The printed statement which accompanied time copy of Lady CHA RLOTTE Geese's volume, transmitted to us from Wales, and from which alone we de- rived any knowledge of the Society in question, is destroyed or mislaid : su that we cannot expleiu the misapprehension piloted out by one ctorrespoudeut ; who is, no doubt, quite outran—Eu.]
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