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Includes letters from J. T. Davies, H. R. Reichel (3), I. Gollancz (5), Kuno Meyer (2), Fritz Jecklin (2), W. A. Raleigh, R. Hughes, E. Walter Rees ('Gwallter Dyfi'), E. H. Goodman Roberts, E. Vincent Evans (5), William B. Halhed (13), J. G. Frazer, H. W. C. Davis, Alice B. Gomme, R. A. Stewart Macalister (5), Frederick G. Wynn (5), Horace Hart (4), Donald A. Mackenzie (3), P. M. C. Kermode (2), Robert Cochrane, Watkin H. Williams, Paul Vinogradoff (2), J. Herbert Lewis (2), Bertram C. A. Windle (4), Edward Owen, W. J. Watson (2), F. Haverfield (2), Christopher Williams, George G. T. Treherne, R. S. Conway, A. H. Sayce (4), E. C. Quiggin, Henri Gaidoz, Earnest A. Hooton, E. S. Dodgson (6), E. Lorimer Thomas, E. Sidney Hartland, Camille Jullian, O. A. Danielsson, W. Boyd Dawkins, M. R. James, Henry Owen, Gwenllian E. F. Morgan (4), Sophia Morrison, Thomas Powel, W. M. Flinders Petrie, J. P. Mahaffy (2), J. Mortimer Angus, Goddard H. Orpen, W. R. Lethaby, Patrick Lyons, Owen Edwards (3), H. J. Fleure, Alfred G. Edwards, George Curzon, George Eyre Evans, Kuno Meyer, Alexander Bugge, and T. E. Lawrence.

Includes letters from George G. T. Treherne (4), Charles Roeder (2), W. Bright, D. B. Monro, Frederick York Powell (2), J. Romilly Allen (3), James Darmesteter, Standish H. O'Grady (5), Max Müller, Adolf Noreen (2), W. M. Ramsay, John Lloyd Warden Page (2), Selwyn Blackett, Arthur J. Everett, Sophus Bugge (2), Alfred Daniell (3), Emil Hübner (2), F. Haverfield, D. Lleufer Thomas, Walter M. J. Campbell, Edward A. Freeman, Grant Allen, W. Cadwaladr Davies, Frederick T. Elworthy, E. B. Tylor, A. H. Sayce, W. Boyd Dawkins, W. W. Fowler (2), F. Pollock, Isaac Taylor, C. P. Le Cornu, Laurence Gomme (3), Edward Clodd (4), John Beddoe (2), Richard Morris, Morgan Davies, E. Vincent Evans, W. W. Skeat, G. W. Kitchin, E. S. Dodgson, Frances Power Cobbe (2), and Samuel R. Gardiner.

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.

Includes letters from Hugh Humphreys, Richard R. Brash (3), Connop Thirlwall, Edwin Norris, Max Müller, and Ernest Renan (copy in Myvanwy Rhys's hand).

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 W. H. Stevenson (4), John T. Gilbert, E. Koschwitz, Henry Sweet (2), Stuart Rendel, William Gladstone, Alex Macbain, Frederick York Powell (2), Robert Atkinson, Augusta Hall, Ernest Renan, H. D. Harper, G. W. Prothero, P. H. McKerlie, E. C. Evans, Edwin Hatch, Michel Bréal, Henry Bradley (2), W. H. Stevenson (3), Edward A. Freeman (3), A. H. Sayce, Francis J. Jayne, Spencer Walpole, George Kenyon, Paul Meyer, J. G. Frazer, August Gittée (2), and A. S. Napier.

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.

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.

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.

Index slips, 1891, for Studies in the Arthurian Legend by John Rhŷs (Oxford, 1891), together with cuttings, 1891-1892, containing reviews of the book.

Papers relating to The Welsh people, by John Rhŷs and D. Brynmor-Jones (London, 1900), comprising five pages of notes, [?1900], in John Rhŷs's hand, concerning the Irish goddess Buanu, and reviews of the book, 1900.

Papers, 1913-1914, mostly comprising a manuscript draft and corrected proofs, 1914, of 'Gleanings in the Italian field of Celtic epigraphy' by John Rhŷs, a paper originally delivered at the British Academy, and subsequently published in its Proceedings, vol. VI (London, 1914).

Manuscript drafts, proofs, cuttings, offprints, etc., 1864-1919, of mostly articles, letters to the press, and reviews by John Rhŷs. The file also includes an unbound scrapbook of cuttings, 1864-1874, of articles by him.

Eight notebooks, 1866-[1869], containing research and lecture notes by John Rhŷs whilst a student at Jesus College, Oxford.

Unbound notes, [1855x1915], mainly in the hand of John Rhŷs, relating to various subjects, among them philology, including notes on manuscript sources and inscriptions; folklore; and history, including draft lecture notes headed 'The Celts'.

Personal documents relating to John Rhŷs, 1857-1916, including his passport, 1870; a testimonial on his departure as Pupil Teacher at Penllwyn British School, 1859; an Inspector's report for Rhosybol British School, 1862; a small group of letters by John Rhŷs, 1863 and undated; a general report and summary, 1875, of schools inspected by John Rhŷs; papers relating to the honorary degree he received from the University of Edinburgh, 1893; letters of appointment and re-appointment to the Court of the University of Wales, 1894, 1899, 1909 and 1914, and the Court of Governors of the National Museum of Wales, 1907 and 1912; and the bookplate used for items donated to the University of Wales Abersytwyth, 1916.

Printed material, [1822]-1946, most of which appear to have been accumulated by John Rhŷs. Among the books, [1822]-1922, are Llawlyfr sainysgrif by T. Cadivor Wood, (Chester, [1863]), Saint David by M. L. Dawson (Carmarthen, 1910), and Manx publications, [1822]-[1836]; reprints, proofs and cuttings of published articles, addresses, letters etc. by various authors, 1863-1912; university manuals, 1869-1871; maps, 1880-1891, of Britain and Ireland, some of which contain manuscript notes; memorial cards of friends and family, 1872-1915; and press cuttings, 1867-1946.

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.

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