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Includes letters from: F. J. Haverfield (28); J. W. Hayes (12); W. J. Hemp (3); John Hinds (6)

The correspondents include: Hubert Hall (11), 1901-1925, E. P. Harries, Pembroke Labour Party, 1918, Wilfred Hemp (7), 1915-1923, Sydney Herbert (2), undated, John M. Howell, Aberaeron (3), 1902-1919, William Evans Hoyle, Director of the National Museum of Wales (2), 1915-1917, Robert A. Hudson, 1899, H. Brython Hughes (2), 1911 and undated, and Rev. John Evan Hughes, Caernarfon (10), 1895-1924.

Miscellaneous papers, including letters to J. H. Davies from Evan William Edwards, Llandefeilog, [1922] (1) (thanking him for his correction regarding the date of P[eter] W[illiams]'s birth), W. J. Hemp, Ancient Monuments Board for Wales, 1922 and undated (2) (enclosing notes of the 19th, 20th and 21st meetings, circulars), P. Jones, Cynfal fawr, Festiniog [sic], 1902 (1) (Cynfal and Garth field names), Edward Owen, Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments, London, 1917 (1) (asking whether a certain tract among the BM MSS was printed), J. Owens, Chester, 1922 (1) (a committee to be held at Chester), Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1903 (1) (quoting lines of verse which Dr Spinther James sent him in which the names Cadi Rownd and Morgan Llwyd occur), Muriel Rees, Aberystwyth, 1922 (1) (thanking him for the testimonial), Thomas Richards, Maesteg, 1923 (2) (mention of 'Hanes Plwy' Bodedern', the sons of Morgan Llwyd, Dr Michael Roberts, etc.), David Thomas, Aberystwyth, 1922 (1) (the outline of a paper for the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society), G. J. Williams, Bangor, 1921 (the names of Caleb Lloyd, 1660, has been found on the wall of the old building at Cynfal), and [Sir] John Williams, Aberystwyth, 1922 (2) (Friday will suit him just as well); a letter, 1903, to J. Jones [?'Myrddin Fardd'] from D. R. Jones, Cambria, Wis[consin] (thanking him for the notes on his 'cywydd', mention of sending a copy of Y Drych, he left Wales at the age of 13 in 1845); miscellaneous notes (fragments), some in the autograph of John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'); part of an account of Cadwgan (draft); the title-page, introduction and pp. 483-490 of a (?) proof copy of The Life and Opinions of Robert Roberts, A Wondering Scholar, ed. J. H. Davies (the imprint is dated 1922 whereas the work was published in 1923); and 'Notes on Field Archaeology' (duplicated).

A letter, 1857, from Evan Evans, Pant, Southbend, Minesota [sic], written in Welsh to an unnamed friend (the beginning of the Welsh settlement at Southbend, reference to various persons in, and from, Cardiganshire) (a transcript of this letter has been made), and letters to Principal J. H. Davies from W. J. Hemp, Ancient Monuments Board for Wales, 1926 (1) (notice of a meeting, with enclosure), Herbert Johnes Lloyd, Croydon Rectory, Royston, 1923-4 (2) (mention of an evening at Cwm and of various books) and Percy E. Watkins and Jenkin James, W.E.A.: Welsh District, Cardiff, 1924 (1) (the addressee's subscription to the W.E.A.).

Correspondence, notes, reports, certificates, press cuttings and other papers relating to Cyril Fox's professional and personal life, including material collected for his biography and proposed autobiography, comprising: academic and professional correspondence and notes of Cyril Fox, with letters from archaeologists to Aileen Fox, and some family correspondence, 1903-1994; correspondence and notes relating to Cyril Fox's appointments to posts at Magdalene College, the National Museum of Ireland and the National Museum of Wales, 1924; correspondence between Cyril Fox and Methuen publishers concerning archaeological books written by him for them, 1929-1935; correspondence between Cyril Fox, Wilfrid Hemp and others concerning the work of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, with particular reference to archaeological fieldwork, as well as the appointment and pay of senior staff at the Commission, 1927-1952; copies of reports and minutes of meetings at the National Museum of Wales relating to curatorial matters, finances, education, staff members and the new building, and press cuttings and photocopies of articles relating to the Museum and its work, 1926-1990; correspondence between Olive Fox, Cyril Fox and other members of the family, with notes and press cuttings relating to her death, 1931-1933; obituaries and memorials for Cyril Fox and other archaeologists, 1967-1979; photocopies of letters from Cyril Fox to his family, 1951-1961; autobiographical notes by Cyril Fox relating to his working life, with notes and press cuttings relating to The Personality of Britain, [?1930s]-1962; school, Army and university reports, certificates and associated letters relating to Cyril Fox's school life, Army commission, academic qualifications, and honours, 1894-1953; essays on history, literature, art, politics and ideas, some of them in diary form, by Cyril Fox, 1907-1908; poems composed by Cyril Fox, 1903-1909; a diary of an archaeological cruise undertaken by Cyril Fox from Italy through the Adriatic to Greece, together with letters relating to his early life and the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, as well as family history and publishing contracts, 1903-1981; and correspondence, notes and interviews accumulated by Charles Scott-Fox in the course of preparing his biography of Cyril Fox, including the personal and professional reminiscences of archaeologists, some of them concentrating on Fox's involvement in the Vernacular Architecture Group, 1985-2003.