Sir
I am very much obliged to you for the information you have so kindly afforded me. you will, I hope, excuse the liberty I take in still soliciting more.
I am taking Madoc to the Court of Owen Cyveiliōc. [1] will you be kind enough to tell me where that Court was, whether at Mathraval? & to give me some little sketch of Cyveiliocs history. I shall make Madoc present at a Gorsedd in Powys, & must not omit to thank you for the knowledge I have gaind upon this & other branches of Welsh antiquities from your Llywarc Hen. [2]
will you favour me with a letter? my direction is Burton. near Ringwood. Hampshire. I must likewise beg you to give me the pronunciation. am I right in calling him Cūvaīlïöc?
I am Sir
yr much obliged
Robert Southey.
August 9. 1797.
Notes
* MS: National Library of Wales, MS 13222C, p. 469
Unpublished. BACK
[1] Owain Cyveilioc (c. 1130–c. 1197), Prince of Powys and poet. BACK
[2]
The Heroic Elegies and Other Pieces of Llywarç Hen, Prince of the Cumbrian Britons: With a Literal Translation, by William Owen (1792). BACK
