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 PREFACE.

''The speeches and. addresses in this volume were delivered by my husband between the years 1886 and 1897, so that they cover the period of his active political life.''

''They were nearly all addressed to literary societies in Welsh Towns or to Welsh Communities in England, and. they have been brought together from various sources, such as newspaper reports, proceedings of societies, and from notes written by Mr. Ellis himself. I desire to express my gratitude to Sir E. Vincent Evans and Mr. R. Vaughan Jones, for giving me permission to reprint the addresses delivered, to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and the Welsh National Society, Liverpool. ''

''The reader will find here and there a few repetitions of thoughts and phrases, which I have deemed it wiser not to delete so as to reproduce his exact words. Unfortunately, few, if any, of his Welsh addresses have been preserved, which is due to the fact that he''