Draft of Autograph Letter Signed ('Hubert Smith') to the editor of Notes and Queries, with autograph transcript of piscatorial poem in Welsh (with translation), and five press cuttings related to Welsh bards.

Author: 
Hubert Smith [Hubert Smith-Stanier](1823-1911), British folklorist [David Harris; Wales; Welsh bards; harpists; minstrels]
Publication details: 
Letter: 8 January 1899; Brooklynne, Willes Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Poem undated. Cuttings: 1892 and 1894.
£165.00
SKU: 9118

Letter: 12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. On aged and discoloured paper, with four pin holes to first leaf. Difficult hand. Discussing an article the proofs of which he has corrected. Poem: 8vo, 1 p. Headed 'David Harris (tom piscota) '. Five four-line stanzas, chorus, and footnote. Translation begins 'Of every sport thats in the world | Fishing is the best | And have to wind out of south | And to fish will jump on my hand'. The cuttings are: first (in French), 3 May 1892, 'Le Félibrige à l'Institut'; second, 4 May 1892, Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer, 'Interesting to Welsh Bards'; third, 15 June 1892, Oswestry Advertizer, about 'Mr Hubert Smith (Amgeiniad Elan)' being 'elected by the Félibrige to be their Welsh correspondent'; fourth, 13 June 1894, Oswestry Advertizer, letter by N. Bennett on 'John Rickets, Welsh Harper'; fifth, 22 September 1894, Athenaeum, 'Frederic Mistral, the Felibréen Poet'.