Y Drysorfa
Publication history. was first published in 1819 as a monthly publication. However, it ceased publication in 1823. It was restarted in 1831 as a quarterly publication, and two of its early editors included Thomas Jones and Thomas Charles, leading figures in the religious and educational development of Wales. , under the editorship of John Parry, became a monthly periodical published by the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales, originally dealing with the Methodist faith, and featured columns such as , a regular column containing letters from missionaries around the world. became a periodical that would also publish poems and literary work  from ministers, preachers and its general readership, and was the first publication to serialize Daniel Owen's earliest work, including the novel "Rhys Lewis". On 26 August 1843, Sir Hugh Owen, wrote in the publication his 'Letter to the Welsh People', regarding the adoption of day schools, which resulted in the appointment of an agent of the British and Foreign Schools Society in North Wales. The publication ran for over a hundred years, finally folding in 1968.