should like to echo the sentiments expressed in your issue
of January 12th by Mr. J. L. Roberts that it will be a scandal to Wales if Owen Glyndwr's prison-bones at Carrogis destroyed. The prospect of this has been imminent for months, and neither the landowners of Welsh blood in Merionethshire nor any other Welsh county appear to have stirred a finger to preserve this interesting historical relic at one quarter the price of a motor-car. It is too late now, I presume, to appeal to the Americans, while a shilling subscrip- tion is a tedious business and a standing reflection on the numbers of comparatively wealthy men in North Wales. " Carchardy Owen" stands on what was Glyndwr's property, which reached nearly to Llangollen, and within a mile of the site of his house at the enhance to the Vale of Glyndyfrdwy. Lord Grey of Ruthyn, who provoked Owen to insurrection, and was captured by the latter in the neighbourhood, was almost certainly confined here for a long time, and also Sir David Gum, a man famous in Welsh history, who afterwards fell at Agincourt. An excellent photograph of the little stone building will be found in my Life of Glyndwr in Putnam's "Heroes of the Nation" Series—I am, Si,', &c.,
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