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 the necessity of forming ourselves into a certain number of committees charged with various forms of work. I trust that from the beginning we shall form a committee of literature and records, or a committee of literature and a committee of records. As it is, we see, and see with great pleasure, that certain members of the Guild are publishing and republishing in various forms some of the finer parts of the literature of Wales. But these efforts are individual, and, to some extent, haphazard. What I desire is that from the beginning of our existence we should make these efforts in an organised and definite way. I go further. and say we should aim at once at the appointment of an executive officer who should be the literary director and editor of the Guild. I believe we should not appeal in vain to the Court of the University to enable us to secure such an executive officer for the direction of such work as I have suggested. The duty of such an official would be to carry out the work which, after careful survey by the Committee of the Guild, and after approval by the Guild itself, and,