I have therefore suffered my remarks on Mr. Nash still to
stand, though with a little modification; but I hope he will read
them by the light of these explanations, and that he will believe my
sense of esteem for his work to be a thousand times stronger than my
sense of difference from it.
To lead towards solid ground, where the Celt may with legitimate
satisfaction point to traces of the gifts and workings of his race,
and where the Englishman may find himself induced to sympathise with
that satisfaction and to feel an interest in it, is the design of all
the considerations urged in the following essay. Kindly taking the
will for the deed, a Welshman and an old acquaintance of mine, Mr.
Hugh Owen, received my remarks with so much cordiality, that he asked
me to come to the Eisteddfod last summer at Chester, and there to
read a paper on some topic of Celtic literature or antiquities. In
answer to this flattering proposal of Mr. Owen's, I wrote him a
letter which appeared at the time in several newspapers, and of which
the following extract preserves all that is of any importance
'My knowledge of Welsh matters is so utterly insignificant that it
would be impertinence in me, under any circumstances, to talk about
those matters to an assemblage of persons, many of whom have passed
their lives in studying them.
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