Letter from William J. Ertwistle, 12 Fyfield Road, Oxford to Ifor Williams

Scope and Content

Myles Dillon's share of the work "The Celtic Languages" is held up by a commission to write on Old Irish Literature for an American Encyclopedia. He is stongly attracted by the example of B.F.C. Atkinson towards including sample texts as illustrative of the growth of the Irish language.

Dillon asks Ertwistle for news of his plans and progress in the history of Welsh.