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Undated manuscript drafts and notes, [1922x1947], in the hand of Myvanwy Rhys, of a proposed biography of her father Sir John Rhŷs.

Notes, [1918x1945], in the hand of Myvanwy Rhys, including genealogical research of the Rees, Mason and James families, together with notes relating to John Rhŷs's school years, the history of Ponterwyd, and 'Ponterwyd worthies'.

Research notes, 1869x[1940], compiled by Myvanwy Rhys, including transcripts of correspondence, among which is a group of original letters, 1869-1870, from John Rhŷs to Henri Gaidoz, with letters from the latter, and transcripts of letters from John Rhŷs to Edward Clodd, 1897-1900, in the latter's hand; notes relating to reviews of John Rhŷs's books, and letters etc. by him published in various newspapers and journals.

Personal papers of Myvanwy Rhys, comprising letters addressed to her, 1881-1945; and various papers belonging, and relating, to her, 1887-1942.

Miscellaneous papers, 1887-1942, of Myvanwy Rhys, including undated notes on Crown Officials and Sheriffs of Wales, Chester, and the Marches during the reigns of Edward III and Richard II; an undated thesis entitled 'The New Testament Logos Conception its sources and contents'; ration books, 1939-1942; and printed material containing references to her, 1887-1918.

Miscellaneous family papers, [1873]-1927, comprising letters addressed to Olwen Rhys, 1893-1927; papers, [1873]-1886, relating to Hugh Rees; letters from, and papers pertaining to, various other family members, 1874-[1915]; and the diaries, 1896-1914, of Mrs Elizabeth Hughes.

Letters, 1893-1927, addressed to Olwen Rhys, mostly from her sister, Myvanwy. Also included is an undated letter from Olwen Rhys to her father, John Rhŷs.

Papers, [1873]-1886, relating to John Rhŷs's father, Hugh Rees, comprising letters, 1879-1886, from him to his son, with a telegram, 1886, notifying John Rhŷs of his father's death; and miscellaneous papers, [1873]-1886, including reminiscences and autobiographical notes in his hand, [?1884]-[1886], manuscript and printed copies of poetry by him, [1873x1886], and a copy of the volume, Blodeu Rhosydd Moab (1884).

Miscellaneous letters, 1874-1914, from relatives of John and Elspeth Rhŷs, several of whom had emigrated to the United States of America; together with papers, 1901-1905, relating to the property Broneilian, Llanberis; and various notes, 1879x[1915], including genealogical research.

Personal diaries, 1896-1909 and 1912-1914, of Mrs Elizabeth Hughes, maid, recording everyday life in the Rhŷs household, including the engagements and movements of the family and visitors to their home, as well as domestic matters.

Includes letters from Henri Gaidoz (2), William H. Bliss (8), John Johnes, Llywarch Reynolds (2), Joshua Pritchard Hughes, Joseph Joseph, William Rees, Samuel Ferguson, and John Edward Lee.

Manuscript and printed copies, 1876-1877, of testimonials in support of John Rhŷs's candidature for the Celtic Professorship at Oxford, by Samuel Ferguson, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, D. R. Thomas, Ulick Joseph Bourke, A. Leskien, Costantino Nigra, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, Henri Gaidoz, Emil Hübner, Georg Curtius, Hugo Schuchardt, G. I. Ascoli, Robert Jones, D. Silvan Evans, and Whitley Stokes; together with related press cuttings.

Letters and cards, 1881-1914, from Egerton Phillimore, together with five unbound printed gatherings of the first part of his 'Welsh Aedoeology', published in the second volume of the journal Kryptadia (1884), pp. 323-97, and a leaflet advertising the third volume which appears never to have been published.

Includes letters from David Evan Davies (3), O. H. Davies ('Eos Llechyd') (3), Hugh Derfel Hughes (5), Henry Sweet (2), William Jones ('Bleddyn') (2), George E. Robinson, J. Collingwood Bruce, James A. H. Murray, and F. E. Warren.

Includes letters from Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion') (3), Frederick York Powell, Charles Elton (3), Ernest Renan, David Evan Davies (2), Hugh Derfel Hughes (4), William Jones ('Bleddyn'), Norman Moore, Isaac Craigfryn Hughes, William Hardy, Reinhold Köhler, Emil Hübner, Elias Owen, James Colquhoun Campbell, H. L. D. Ward, Andrew Lang, D. Lledrodian Davies, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Edward A. Freeman, John Owen, Wentworth Webster (2), Herbert Spencer, Edward B. Tylor, and O. H. Davies ('Eos Llechyd').

Letters and cards, 1873-1901, from D. Silvan Evans to John Rhŷs; together with two letters and a card, 1897-1898, from his son, J. Henry Silvan Evans; and a letter to D. Silvan Evans, 1871, from Ralph Carr-Ellison.

Includes letters from Percy Gardner, T. H. Thomas, Edward Owen (2), Frederic Seebohm, J. G. O'Keeffe (2), Henry Bradley, F. Haverfield, Salomon Reinach, L. Matruchot (2), P. M. C. Kermode (3), Émile Espérandieu (2), Donald A. Mackenzie, Osborn J. Bergin (2), Goddard H. Orpen (5), J. K. Fotheringham (5), W. H. Stevenson, Henry Jackson, William B. Halhead (3), F. Madan, Edward Anwyl, Camille Jullian, George Curzon, Thomas Shankland, Paul Meyer, Henri Gaidoz, Andrew Lang, A. H. Sayce, E. C. Quiggin, Kuno Meyer (3), Walter Runciman (2), E. Ch. Babut, H. H. Asquith, Charles Dalrymple-Hay, William Jones (5), Alice Jones ('Ceridwen Peris'), Robert Windsor-Clive (Earl of Plymouth), Almeric W. FitzRoy (2), Henry Owen (4), Christopher Palles, John Owen, Patrick Lyons (3), Christopher Williams, Alfred G. Edwards, D. Brynmor Jones, Michel Jouve (6), D. Rhys Phillips, H. J. Fleure, John Abercromby, Horace Hart (2), Isaac Criagfryn Hughes, I. Gollancz, A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'), George Coffey, R. S. Conway, R. I. Best, Paul Vinogradoff, E. S. Dodgson (5), Arthur J. Evans, and Felix Mazauric.

Includes letters from Joseph Joseph, Donald Mackinnon (3), H. D. Harper, Mary F. Macclesfield (3), Max Nettlau, Augusta Hall, Edward A. Freeman, Thomas Hallam, Godfrey Lushington (2), J. D. Davies, Arthur J. Williams, Hugo Schuchardt, H. L. D. Ward (2), Max Müller (3), Betha Hills-Johnes, and J. E. Rogers.

Includes letters from H. N. Moseley, H. L. D. Ward, Emil Hübner, W. J. N. Liddall (2), Samuel Ferguson, George Butler, William K. Sullivan, A. Brandl, Bartholomew Price, John Poyntz Spencer, Francis Sandford, Joseph W. Chitty, R. F. Burton, Betha Hills-Johnes, O. H. Davies ('Eos Llechyd'), Gilbert Goudie (enclosing a letter of introduction from J. Romilly Allen), and Joseph Joseph.

Includes letters from Edward B. Tylor, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, Edward A. Freeman (3), D. Lledrodian Davies, W. M. Hennessy, Arthur Mitchell, John Veitch, George E. Robinson, G. I. Ascoli, Joseph Anderson, Alexander Ritchie, Robert Borland, Wentworth Webster (2), H. D. Harper (7), John G. Michie, J. Anderson, Henry Austin Bruce (Lord Aberdare), J. J. Macsweeney, Charles Plummer, Samuel Ferguson, Henry Bradley (3), H. L. D. Ward, F. J. Child, Betha Hills-Johnes, Andrew Lang, W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), David Evan Davies, David Lewis, Francis J. Jayne, Edmund Gurney, and Howel W. Lloyd.