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Papers, [1822]-1953, of John Rhŷs, comprising a substantial group of letters addressed to him, 1860-1915; material, 1864-1919, relating to books, articles, addresses etc. by John Rhŷs, including reviews of his books; notes, 1836-[1920x1945], compiled by him; and personal and professional papers, [1822]-1953, belonging to, and accumulated by, John Rhŷs, including personalia, diaries, testimonials for the Celtic Professorship, and references to him in printed sources.

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).

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.

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.

The series comprises material relating to works by John Rhŷs, namely books, articles, addresses and letters, most of which were published; with an additional file comprising reviews of his books. The papers, 1864-1919, include manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, reviews, photographs, and other related material.

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.