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Includes letters from James A. H. Murray, Edward Owen, Thomas Powel, William Iago (2), Edward Anwyl (4), Thomas Owen, John R. Mowbray, A. G. Boscawen (2), Charles Roeder (2), Hugh E. Seebohm, D. R. Thomas, D. Brynmor Jones (2), T. H. Thomas (2), D. P. Alford, H. Furneaux, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (5), John Owen, A. C. Humphreys-Owen (2), Charles Elton, Augusta Herbert, F. G. Kenyon (2), John L. Myers, Henry Owen (4), E. Sidney Hartland (2), David R. Hughes, H. W. Williams (7), Wentworth Webster, John H. Puleston (2), Hugh Williams, G. Hartwell Jones, George Coffey, Robert Cochrane (2), Richard J. Kelly, Charles Owen O'Conor (3), Reginald Bence-Jones, A. S. Napier, Alfred Holder, Douglas Hyde, W. J. Lewis, J. Edwin Odgers, George St John Colthurst, Arthur Guinness (Baron Ardilaun), Bernard Mallet, Robert Welch (2), Bernard FitzPatrick (Baron Castletown), W. A. Craigie, J. Romilly Allen (2), S. Baring-Gould (3), John Hobson Matthews, F. Haverfield, E. Vincent Evans, William Keith Leask, Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (2), Robert Burnard (2), John Garstang, J. Anderson (5), Alfred Neobard Palmer, C. E. G. Philipps, Norman Moore, E. S. Dodgson (2), Lewis Morris, H. Augusta Mostyn, Charles Mills Gayley, N. MacColl, John Edward Lloyd, Osborn J. Bergin (2), D. Hay Fleming, A. S. Green, C. A. Buckler, R. A. Stewart Macalister, Alexander Carmichael (2), Hugo Schuchardt, Edward Clodd (3), and Alexander B. Grosart.

Includes letters from Joseph Edkins (incomplete), Charles Appleton (2), Henri Gaidoz (3), William F. Skene, W. Boyd Dawkins (2), Emil Hübner (11), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (4), Samuel Ferguson (2), Love Jones Parry, Henry Bradshaw (3), John Peter, William Iago, A. H. Sayce (6), W. W. Skeat (3), and Max Müller.

Includes letters from Patrick O'Leary (3), Douglas Hyde, William Iago (2), David Samuel, A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (5), Eleanor Hull (2), Edward Clodd (4), F. C. Conybeare, J. Loth, Charles Ashton (2), Kuno Meyer, John Price, Robert Cochrane (8), E. B. Cowell, T. H. Thomas (4), E. W. B. Nicholson (10), Henry W. Evans, Lucy E. Griffith (4), Mary L. Dawson, J. Viriamu Jones (3), Henry Owen, H. W. Williams (3), Henry Jones, Taliesin Morgan, Ellis Edwards, David G. Ritchie, J. Romilly Allen (2), William Hughes, Edward Owen, William George Black, Charles Grierson, John I. D. Nicholl (2), Edward A. Freeman, W. A. Craigie, E. Crofton Rotheram (3), A. Griffith-Boscawen, R. A. Stewart Macalister (5), Karl Blind (2), William E. Oakeley, Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, J. Anderson (2), J. Cynddylan Jones, D. Brynmor Jones (2), C. E. Doble (2), Betha Hills-Johnes, Isaac Craigfryn Hughes, Patrick Lyons, Goddard H. Orpen (2), E. Sidney Hartland (2), Michael Beary (5), Edward Anwyl (2), David E. Davies ('Dewi Glan Ffrydlas'), Elias Owen, A. W. Moore, Margaret L. Huggins, Joseph Wright, Joseph Delcourt, James R. Thursfield, Thomas J. Westropp (2), R. L. Morant (2), A. Sidgwick, Ellis J. Ellis-Griffith, W. P. Ker, Nora Philipps, T. Marchant Williams, John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (2), Ll. J. M. Bebb, Llywarch Reynolds (3), D. E. Jenkins, Isambard Owen, J. Fisher, D. Howell, William Greenwell (2), George Henderson, Hugh Williams (2), Isaac Foulkes ('Llyfrbryf'), and Edward B. Tylor.

Includes letters from R. A. Stewart Macalister (2), J. Glyn Davies (4), D. Lloyd George (3), Robert Mowat (4, one includes a note by Whitley Stokes on reverse), Evan Rees ('Dyfed'), Patrick Power, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (2), Lewis Morris (3), T. Herbert Warren (4), F. J. Furnivall, Edward Laws (2), Horace Hart (13), Edward Caird (2), A. H. Sayce, Julio de Urquijo (4), Alfred Daniell, Sidney Lee (2), J. Romilly Allen (5), W. James (2), John Rowland, Thomas Shankland, S. H. Church, A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (7), Richard Ellis, George Eyre Evans (3), John Edward Lloyd (3), William Jones, Rudolf Thurneysen, J. Strachan, Hugh Williams, J. G. Schurman (3), Goddard H. Orpen (2), Edward Owen (10), E. W. B. Nicholson (3), John C. Roberts, Isaac Craigfryn Hughes (2), George Curzon (2), E. S. Dodgson (40), W. H. Preece, J. H. Hessels, H. H. Asquith (2), D. Brynmor Jones, John Bradbury, W. G. Smith, Henry Owen (3), John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (2), Thomas Powel (2), J. Gwenogvryn Evans (3), Norman Lockyer, Thurstan C. Peter (2), J. G. Swift MacNeill, H. Campbell-Bannerman, S. Baring-Gould, Robert P. Porter, S. L. Clemens, Bernard FitzPatrick (Baron Castletown), A. S. Green, Marie Corelli, Erskine Beveridge (3), Henry Jones (2), W. Hawker Hughes, J. C. Collins, Robert S. Ball, J. Loth (2), J. Jusserand (3), Arturo Campión, Camille Jullian, William Iago, Gustav Roethe (2), Osborn J. Bergin, Heinrich Zimmer, Robinson Ellis, Charles Plummer, Edward Anwyl (2), W. M. Ramsay (2), Andrew Lang, Bernard P. Grenfell, Kuno Meyer (2), F. C. Conybeare, R. R. Marett, T. H. Thomas, Arthur Bernard Cook, Henry Browne, Almeric W. FitzRoy, W. Rhys Roberts, J. H. Davies, Rowland Ellis, T. F. Tout, T. Witton Davies, F. Haverfield (3), Edward Clodd, J. Myfenydd Morgan (2), E. Vincent Evans, Anatole le Braz, H. Osthoff, G. L. Barstow (2), Ingram Bywater, George Eyre Evans, R. Gwyneddon Davies, and Hubert von Herkomer.

Includes letters from A. W. Wade-Evans, R. S. Conway, H. J. Fleure, F. Haverfield (6), Francesco Chiesa, Henry Lewis, Edward Dwelly, Christopher Williams, Solomon Solomon (2), Almeric W. FitzRoy, Kuno Meyer, D. Brynmor Jones, Charles Gore, Edward Owen (2), T. Fisher Unwin, W. M. Lindsay (2), A. G. Cadogan, James Bryce, E. S. Dodgson (5), R. B. Haldane (Lord Haldane), George Eyre Evans (2), Horace Hart (3), Wilfrid Ward, W. J. Watson, Maurice Bonham Carter, Frederick Pollock, Robin Flower, Henri Gaidoz, R. A. Stewart Macalister (2), J. Glyn Davies, A. H. Sayce, Paul Meyer, Thomas Powel, Ubaldo Mazzini, John Lloyd Warden Page (2), and Isaac Craigfryn Hughes.

Includes letters from James Bryce (3), John Lloyd Warden Page, John Joly (2), J. P. Mahaffy (3), H. M. White (3), W. H. Stevenson (2), Owen Owen, John Ward (2), Richard Ellis (2), Osborn J. Bergin, Ifor Williams, S. J. Evans, Solomon Solomon, George Eyre Evans, Edward Owen (22), J. Glyn Davies (3), R. A. Stewart Macalister (3), D. Brynmor Jones (4), Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington (Earl Carrington), F. Haverfield (3), Alfred G. Edwards, T. F. Roberts, J. H. Davies, Ellis Davies, J. L. Strachan-Davidson, E. C. Quiggin, E. S. Dodgson (7), Rupert H. Morris, A. H. Sayce (2), Willoughby Gardner (3), George G. T. Treherne (2), Arthur J. Evans, William Evans Hoyle, E. Vincent Evans, O. A. Danielsson, C. Hercules Read, and Henry Bradley.

Includes letters from P. M. C. Kermode (3), Alexander MacBain, Frederic Seebohm (3), J. E. Rogers (2), J. H. Davies, John Young Evans (3), John Hobson Matthews, William C. Borlase (3), J. Fisher (3, enclosing 3 letters from Watcyn Wyn), Howel Walters, Betha Hills-Johnes (3), D. Long Price (2), Thomas Davies (2), Alan Stepney-Gulston, Henry Austin Bruce, G. O. Morgan (2), James R. Thursfield, John Owen (4), D. B. Monro, Emilia F. S. Dilke, E. B. Cowell, Isaac Foulkes ('Llyfrbryf'), E. K. Jones (2), G. Hartwell Jones, Augusta Hall (dictated), W. P. Ker, J. Hugh Edwards, Francis J. Jayne (3), Alfred G. Edwards (4), Charles Plummer, John Jones ('Ivon'), Thomas Powel, Watkin Williams ('Watcyn Wyn') (3), Thomas Levi, John Owen (3), W. A. Craigie (3), W. R. Morfill (2), J. W. Mackail, J. Romilly Allen (3, enclosing a letter from Edward Owen), Malcolm MacFarlane, George Kenyon, Henry Owen (2), J. Herbert Lewis, Samuel Smith, J. Lloyd Morgan, W. Rathbone, J. Herbert Roberts, A. C. Humphreys-Owen, D. A. Thomas, J. Bryn Roberts, D. R. Thomas, Alexander Hugh Bruce, T. K. Cheyne, John Lloyd Warden Page, D. Rhys Jones (3), Edward Laws (4), Arthur J. Evans, William Jones (2), H. W. Williams (6), G. Bowen Jones (2), H. Morse Stephens, Charles Roeder (2), A. W. Moore, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke), Edward Stanley (3), W. Cadwaladr Davies, H. R. Reichel (2), Frank Harris, Llewellyn Thomas, John Beddoe, Theodor Mommsen (2), Rudolf Thurneysen, A. H. D. Acland, Elias Owen (2), Hugh Williams (2), Ivor James, J. Viriamu Jones, Llywarch Reynolds, and Isaac Taylor.

Includes letters from Llywarch Reynolds (2), Augusta Hall (3), Edward Laws, Edward A. Freeman, Max Müller (2), Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Evans, Henry Nettleship, E. C. Evans, and W. G. Smith (2).

Financial papers, 1871-1909, of John Rhŷs. A receipt for a book purchased in Leipzig, 1871, contains notes on philology which appear to be in the hand of John Rhŷs; and a rubbing of an inscription has been made on the reverse of another item, dated 1896.

Papers, 1862-[1947], relating to various family members, among them Elspeth Rhŷs, Myvanwy Rhys, Olwen Rhys, and Hugh Rees, including correspondence, and a substantial group of material accumulated by Myvanwy Rhys for a proposed biography of her father.

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'.

Papers relating to the copyright action, 1909, brought by J. Gwenogvryn Evans. They comprise holograph notes by John Rhŷs, printed transcripts of evidence given by J. Gwenogvryn Evans, and newspaper cuttings; together with two reports concerning the copyright case of Parry v. Gollancz, 1903.

Papers, 1862-1911, of Elspeth (or 'Lizzie') Rhŷs (née Hughes-Davies), including letters addressed to her, and notebooks.

Engagement diaries, 1862-1915 (with gaps), belonging to John Rhŷs, together with a journal of a visit to St Jean de Luz, 1893-1894. Most contain brief, often occasional, entries recording meetings, tours, domestic and personal matters, accounts, and other notes and observations. Also included are accounts, exemplars of German phrases, lists of various places visited probably in his capacity as HM Inspector of Schools, and inscriptions of stones.

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.

Correspondence, 1860-1953, mostly comprising letters to John Rhŷs from fellow researchers, friends and family. They mainly relate to his interests in philology, grammar, history, archaeology, ethnology and folklore, and his research concerning inscriptions, including ogam inscriptions. The correspondents range from renowned specialists in various fields to local antiquarians who assisted with the task of recording inscriptions on stones. Some letters are addressed to other individuals, and were probably enclosed with letters addressed to John Rhŷs.

Certificates relating, or awarded, to John Rhŷs, 1865-1900, comprising a copy, 1865, of his baptism record, 1840; marriage certificate, 1872; a 'schoolmasters certificate' containing brief reports of inspections of Rhosybol British School, 1860-1865; certificate of admission to the University of Leipzig, 1871; diploma of membership of the Learned Estonian Society, Dorpart Unviersity, 1876; diploma of membership of the Celtic Society of Montreal, 1885; and a certificate in support of his candidature for the degree of Doctor of Letters, 1900.

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.

Papers, 1869-[1947], compiled by Myvanwy Rhys in preparation for a biography of her father, Sir John Rhŷs. They include manuscript drafts, [1922x1947], of the proposed biography in Myvanwy Rhys's hand; genealogical notes, [1918x1945], relating to the Rees, Mason and James families; and various research papers, 1869x[1940].

Exercise books, 1860, containing lecture notes whilst John Rhŷs was a student at the Bangor Normal College.