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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).

Correspondence, [1860]-1953, comprising letters from individuals, namely D. Silvan Evans, 1873-1901; John Morris-Jones, 1889-1915; Egerton Phillimore, 1881-1914; James Carnegie (Earl of Southesk), 1883-1904; and Whitley Stokes, 1871-1909. Also included is an album of letters addressed to John Rhŷs from various correspondents, [1860]-1893; letters of condolence on the death of John Rhŷs, 1915-1916; and miscellaneous letters, 1916-1925.

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.

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, 1913, relating to 'The Celtic inscriptions of Cisalpine Gaul' by John Rhŷs, a paper originally delivered at the British Academy, and subsequently published in its Proceedings, vol. VI (London, 1913). The file includes galley proofs and page proofs, some containing manuscript amendments and corrections by the author; photographs and sketches of plates; and reviews of the article.

Cuttings of reviews, 1882-1908, of published works by John Rhŷs, including Celtic Britain (London, 1882), On the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic Heathendom (London, 1888), and The Celtic inscriptions of France and Italy (London, 1906).

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

Notes, 1869-[1871], from Georg Curtius' lectures on philology, compiled by John Rhŷs whilst a student at the University of Leipzig; together with a college book recording his attendance at philology lectures, 1870-1871.

Six notebooks, 1836-1853, in an unknown hand, containing sermons in Manx.

Rubbings, 1873-1915, together with illustrations and related notes, compiled by various individuals, of inscriptions located in Wales, England, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Ireland, and France.

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.

Printed material, 1862-1953, mostly comprising press cuttings and articles about, or containing references to, John Rhŷs and his work, including tributes and obituaries; the Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Inaugural Lecture given by Sir John Morris-Jones, 1925; and the opening of Ysgol Syr John Rhŷs, Ponterwyd, 1953.

Papers, 1869-[1947], relating to, and accumulated by, Myvanwy Rhys, including material concerning a proposed biography of Sir John Rhŷs, 1869-[1947], and correspondence, 1881-1945.

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].

Includes letters from R. J. R. Loxdale (3), Betha Hills-Johnes (2), D. Brynmor Jones (11), Edward Owen (7), Richard Jones Owen ('Glaslyn') (4), Ivor James (5), William E. Oakeley, Edward Anwyl (7), E. B. Tylor (8), Charles Roeder (6), Henri Logeman (enclosing letter from Georges Hulin), John Garstang, J. Glyn Davies (5), E. Sidney Hartland (2), W. M. Lindsay (3), John Lloyd (2), Joseph Bailey (Baron Glanusk) (2), J. H. Davies (5), Pym Yeatman (2), Llywarch Reynolds (5), J. H. Hessels, Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant') (9), A. S. Napier (2), W. H. Stevenson (3), Sydney Herbert, J. Fisher (2), W. F. R. Weldon, George Henderson (4, enclosing a letter from Alexander Carmichael), Isaac Craigfryn Hughes (4), Emilia F. S. Dilke (2), John Thomas ('Eifionydd'), S. F. Harmer, S. Baring-Gould (4), Alfred Anscombe (2), D. E. Jenkins, George Noble Plunkett, T. McKenny Hughes, P. M. C. Kermode (7), T. Fowler (2), Henri Gaidoz, George G. T. Treherne (8), Walter J. Evans, J. Brynach Davies (2), W. M. Flinders Petrie (4), W. Lewis Jones (2), Patrick Lyons (13), W. R. Morfill (2), E. W. B. Nicholson, A. L. Mayhew, D. Rhys Phillips (13), J. G. Frazer (6), J. Romilly Allen, Meredith J. Hughes, Charlotte A. M. Johnes, Eleanor Hull (2), Frederick York Powell, H. W. Williams (3), Clarence M. Dobell (2), J. Viriamu Jones, T. H. Thomas, Edward Clodd (2), Kuno Meyer, Thomas Prichard, David R. Hughes, A. H. Sayce (2), Henry Jones (3), J. Anderson, David G. Ritchie (3), Magnus Maclean, Mary Davies, A. C. Haddon, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, F. Haverfield (2), David MacRitchie (2), Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, John L. Myres, Giuseppe Sergi (2), W. J. Sollas, W. A. Craigie, Arthur J. Evans (2), H. G. Keene, D. Emlyn Evans, Wentworth Webster, A. Hutcheson, J. A. R. Marriott, D. Morgan Lewis, and J. Gwenogvryn Evans.

Includes letters from Standish H. O'Grady (12), J. H. Davies, Henry Austin Bruce, A. C. Humphreys-Owen (2), A. H. D. Acland (2), Llywarch Reynolds, Isaac Taylor (2), Paul Meyer, Henry Bradley, W. M. Ramsay (2), D. O'Faherty, W. A. Craigie (2), Goddard H. Orpen (4), William George Black, Frederick Pollock (2), George H. Murray, Sophus Bugge, Alfred Anscombe, John Young Evans, A. W. Moore (2), Laurence Gomme, Edward Anwyl, H. L. D. Ward, R. D. Darbishire, J. Fisher, Robert Welch, and George Henderson.

Includes letters from W. W. Skeat, Edward A. Freeman, A. H. Sayce (10), Emil Hübner (2), Charles Merivale, George E. Robinson, John Peter (4), D. R. Thomas (2), Nikolaus Trübner (10), J. O. Westwood (2), George Moffatt, Henri Gaidoz (4), Samuel Ferguson (2), F. J. Furnivall, Henry Bradshaw (2), D. H. Haigh (7), W. H. Bliss, Henry Sweet (2), and Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville.

Includes letters from Thomas Powel, J. H. Hessels, H. W. Williams (3), Laurence Gomme (2), E. Vincent Evans, S. Baring-Gould (3), Edward Clodd, Kuno Meyer (2), George G. T. Treherne (3), Andrew Lang, Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant'), Charles Plummer, D. Brynmor Jones (6), Frederick York Powell (3), Llywarch Reynolds, Henry Owen (2), E. Sidney Hartland (4), J. Fisher, Ivor James (4), Alfred Daniell (2), Patrick Lyons (8), Frederic Seebohm (2), Edward Anwyl (3), Camille Jullian, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Robert Bridges, Robert Cochrane (3), David MacRitchie (3), Alfred Neobard Palmer (2), George Coffey (5), W. H. Stevenson, Standish H. O'Grady (2), W. J. Ashley, E. Perceval Wright (3), Robert Borland (4), Salomon Reinach, Charles Roeder (5), E. W. B. Nicholson, F. Haverfield, Mary Glanusk (2), Eleanor M. Reid, J. Romilly Allen (4), Betha Hills-Johnes, Pym Yeatman, J. Glyn Davies, George Henry Cadogan (Earl Cadogan), Leslie Stephen, Isambard Owen (6), Alexander Hugh Bruce (Baron Balfour of Burleigh), I. Gollancz (3), R. A. Stewart Macalister (6), Norman Lockyer, Bernard FitzPatrick (Baron Castletown), Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, Edward Gibson (Baron Ashbourne), D. R. Thomas, Louise I. Guiney (2), F. T. Barry, T. Marchant Williams, W. M. Lindsay (3), A. Héron de Villefosse, Edward Martyn (2), J. Cynddylan Jones, Thomas Darlington, F. J. Furnivall, A. C. Humphreys-Owen, T. D. James ('Iago Erfyl'), A. W. Moore, J. B. Bury, E. B. Poulton, H. R. Reichel, and Cadwallader J. Bates.

Includes letters from J. Gwenogvryn Evans, E. Maunde Thompson, A. S. Green, Heinrich Zimmer, E. S. Dodgson (2), James A. H. Murray (3), Henry Bradley, F. Haverfield (2), Theodore Roosevelt, George G. T. Treherne (2), F. C. Conybeare, C. E. Doble, John Herbert James (3), D. B. Monro, George Goschen (Viscount Goschen), D. Brynmor Jones (4), I. Gollancz, E. W. B. Nicholson (5), Wentworth Webster (2), Arthur G. Langdon, Edmund Lechmere, Alfred L. Jones, W. R. Morfill, Edgar Jones, Alfred Anscombe (2), W. P. Ker, D. Lloyd George, Randall Davidson (2), F. C. Burkitt, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Alfred Daniell, William Boyle, Spencer Walpole, John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (2), Edward Owen (2), G. Hartwell Jones, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, T. Marchant Williams, W. H. Preece (3), David James ('Defynog'), Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, Henry Owen, E. Lorimer Thomas, W. Hawker Hughes, Horace Hart, Goddard H. Orpen (2), Daniel Rees, Charles E. Breese (4), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (4), H. R. Reichel, A. Sidgwick, Edward Anwyl (2), Laurence Gomme, Henri Gaidoz, William B. Halhed, J. B. Bury (2), J. Romilly Allen, and Lewis Morris (2).

Includes letters from T. F. Tout (4), Mary Davies (3), Almeric W. FitzRoy, Edward Anwyl, Edith F. Carey, E. Ch. Babut, W. H. Clark (2), W. A. Craigie, J. G. Frazer, Kuno Meyer (6), E. W. B. Nicholson (7), E. Vincent Evans (2), Salomon Reinach (3), Henry Owen (9), Edward Clodd (2), F. Haverfield (2), A. H. Sayce (3), John Ballinger, Henri Lechat (6), A. S. Green (12), Bertram C. A. Windle, Johannes Hoops, W. Boyd Dawkins (2), Alfred P Graves (2), Alfred Daniell, D. Rhys Phillips, Arthur L. Smith, Alfred E. Hudd, R. A. Stewart Macalister (2), G. L. Barstow (2), A. S. Napier, Edward Laws, J. E. de Hirsch Davies, James H. Cousins, C. P. Molhuysen, T. A. Glenn, T. Mansel Franklen (2), Émile Espérandieu, George Eyre Evans (6), D. Lleufer Thomas (2), Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (2), Michel Jouve, Patrick Lyons (2), Thomas Powel, J. Glyn Davies, Alfred G. Edwards, W. A. Henderson, Robert Cochrane (2), H. R. Reichel, John Edward Lloyd, I. Gollancz, P. M. C. Kermode (2), Henri Gaidoz (2), Julius Pokorny, Richard Lydekker, Charles Plummer, and J. P. Mahaffy.