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 influential appeal was made to the Welsh Members of Parliament to bestir themselves. They were able successfully to appeal to the Government to enable Mr. Evans to undertake this work of calendaring the manuscripts of Wales. That work is now being done. Now that is good and necessary work, and, in its way, essential, but it is only preliminary, and a preface to the work of yet another value.

There is another work being done which is, I think, of extreme value to Wales. It is work which we, as members of the Guild, ought to help as far as lies in our power. The three University Colleges are now doing what they can with very limited means to secure the collection of Welsh books and books relating to Wales. So far, I think, the University College at Cardiff has been the most fortunate in this respect, by securing possession of the great Salisbury library. But they have not been able to do much more than the British Museum did with those manuscripts. They have not been able to make them presentable to their own students or to the public. This