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Welsh Folk Museum Answer Book, 1958, containing detailed notes in Welsh about peat cutting, and obtained by Trefor M. Owen from Gomer Roberts, Bryn-y-gath, Abergeirw, Meirionnydd, who was born in Blaen-lliw Uchaf, Llanuwchllyn and in the Answer Book discusses the area of Abergeirw, Llangywer and Llanuwchllyn around 1900. Answer Books were sent out by the Welsh Folk Museum in 1958 to individuals across Wales as a way of collecting and documenting information on aspects of folk culture in their areas, including agriculture, crafts, food, customs and dialects. The responses were hand-written in the books. The Answer Books had a similar purpose to the earlier questionnaires sent out in 1937.