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Includes letters from Francis Sandford (5, with a letter of application from John Rhŷs for the post of inspector of schools in North Wales), and Henry Bradshaw.

Includes letters from Georg Curtius, and Samuel Ferguson.

Includes letters from Henry Sweet (3), W. W. Skeat (2), A. H. Sayce (4), Henri Gaidoz, Francis Sandford, J. E. Sewell, G. Arthur Jones, Nikolaus Trübner (3), Robert Williams, and George E. Robinson.

Includes letters from John Evans, William W. E. Wynne (3), T. H. Huxley, Emil Hübner, E. Maunde Thompson (2), John Quine, and James Backhouse.

Includes letters from Theodor Benfeÿ (printed copy), Nikolaus Trübner (2), P. W. Joyce, W. J. N. Liddall (2), James Backhouse, Isaac Taylor (2), W. Henzen, William K. Sullivan, W. M. Hennessy (2), G. I. Ascoli, H. L. D. Ward (4), Elias Owen, and Edward Hamer.

Includes letters from David Lewis, W. J. Lewis (3), F. T. Palgrave (2), Edward A. Freeman (3), John Evans, Henry Austin Bruce (Lord Aberdare), Francis J. Jayne, Henry Bradley, Emil Hübner (4), James Graves, Llywarch Reynolds, Norman Moore, H. Hussey Vivian, Henry Owen, John J. Earle, Louis Lucien Bonaparte (7), John Roberts, W. M. Flinders Petrie, Julien Vinson, George Butler, Henri Gaidoz, Mary F. Macclesfield, Robinson Ellis, Robert Roberts, Max Müller, and Frederick York Powell.

Includes letters from John Abercromby, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, Joseph Anderson, John W. Bardsley, Alexander Hugh Bruce (Baron Balfour of Burleigh), J. B. Bury (2), Ingram Bywater, Robert Cochrane (2), George Coffey, W. J. Craig, Sibell Blunt (Countess of Cromartie), Alfred Daniell, James Darmesteter (2), David Ffrangcon-Davies, J. Glyn Davies (2), J. H. Davies (2), Emilia F. S. Dilke, and Louis Duchesne.

Includes letters from J. G. Swift MacNeill, R. A. Stewart Macalister (2), Donald A. Mackenzie, J. P. Mahaffy (2), Constance de Markiewicz, W. R. Morfill (2), Eluned Morgan, Lewis Morris (3), Gilbert Murray, James A. H. Murray (2), A. S. Napier (4), E. W. B. Nicholson, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Goddard H. Orpen, William Osler (2), Henry Owen (2), W. M. Flinders Petrie (3), Charles Plummer (4), Julius Pokorny, and Frederick York Powell (6).

Includes letters from E. C. Quiggin, Salomon Reinach (6), Ernest Renan (2), Franklin T. Richards (2), George E. Robinson (5), William Sanday (2), Hugo Schuchardt, Cuthbert Shields, W. W. Skeat, William Stubbs, John Thickens, Llewellyn Thomas, A. O. Vaughan (Owen Rhoscomyl (3), H. L. D. Ward (2), T. Herbert Warren, Jessie L. Weston (2), Oscar Wilde, John Wordsworth, Joseph Wright, and Frederick G. Wynn (3).

Letters, 1889-1915, from John Morris-Jones to John Rhŷs, in which he discusses his academic research and published work, the work of other academics, and Welsh grammar including the pronunciation, etymology and the meaning of words and phrases. Reference is also made to Welsh poetry and manuscripts, and inscriptions on stones.

Letters, 1883-1904, from James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk.

An album containing letters, dated [1860]-1893, mostly addressed to John Rhŷs. The writers include T. H. Huxley, Grant Allen, James Darmesteter, E. B. Cowell, E. Ray Lankester, Frederick York Powell, A. Sidgwick, Andrew Lang, H. Morse Stephens, Edward Caird, Benjamin Jowett, A. S. Napier, J. Viriamu Jones, Auberon Herbert, Archibald Primrose (Earl of Rosebery), Lewis Morris, Gilbert Murray, J. P. Mahaffy, Paul Meyer, Ernest Renan, Rowland Hill (to [his brother?] Arthur), and Edward Clodd.

Letters, 1831-1853, addressed to various recipients and forwarded at a later date to John Rhŷs. Two letters, dated 1916 and 1925, were possibly forwarded to Myvanwy Rhys; an additional letter, 1953, was sent to Idris Foster by M. V. Taylor. Also included are letters, and fragments of letters, which are unsigned and undated.

Manuscript drafts, 1876-1877, of Lectures on Welsh philology by John Rhŷs (London, 1877); together with annotated page proofs (incomplete) of the appendix; cuttings, 1874-1879, containing reviews of the lectures and the book; and five letters, 1877-1879, from the publishers Trübner & Co.

Corrected page proofs, 1886, of most of The text of the Mabinogion and other Welsh tales from the Red Book of Hergest, vol. I, edited by John Rhŷs and J. Gwenogvryn Evans (Oxford, 1887); together with reviews of the book, 1887.

Index slips, 1891, for Studies in the Arthurian Legend by John Rhŷs (Oxford, 1891), together with cuttings, 1891-1892, containing reviews of the book.

Manuscript draft, [1891], of the article, 'The inscriptions and language of the Northern Picts', by John Rhŷs, published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. xxvi (1891-1892); together with related notes, including a letter, 1895, in his hand addressed to Whitley Stokes.

Papers relating to The Welsh people, by John Rhŷs and D. Brynmor-Jones (London, 1900), comprising five pages of notes, [?1900], in John Rhŷs's hand, concerning the Irish goddess Buanu, and reviews of the book, 1900.

Incomplete manuscript draft, [1894], consisting mainly of Chapter IX, of The outlines of the phonology of Manx Gaelic (Oxford, 1894), by John Rhŷs; together with reviews, [1894]-1895.

Papers, 1899-1900, relating to Celtic Folklore by John Rhŷs (Oxford, 1901), comprising manuscript drafts of the preface, table of contents, 'A geographical list of authorities and sources . . . to Welsh folklore', 'List of bibliographical references', and 'Additions & corrections'; printed copies of chapters I-VI, with manuscript amendments by the author; a typescript draft of chapters VII-XII; galley proofs and page proofs containing manuscript amendments and corrections by John Rhŷs, with additional manuscript notes in his hand. Amongst the typescript draft, chapter 10 (f. 62), is a letter, dated 1900, to John Rhŷs from J. Gwenogvryn Evans. Also included are cuttings, 1900-1901, containing reviews of the book.