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Papers, [1822]-1953, of John Rhŷs, comprising a considerable group of letters to him, 1860-1915, including those from fellow researchers, friends and family; material, 1864-1919, relating to his published works, including manuscript drafts of books, articles, and addresses; and research notes, 1836-[1920x1945]. There are also personal and professional papers, [1822]-1953, belonging to, and accumulated by, John Rhŷs; and papers, 1862-[1947], relating to various family members, among them a substantial body of material accumulated by Myvanwy Rhys for a proposed biography of her father.

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.

Letters, 1893-1945, addressed to Myvanwy Rhys from her sister, Olwen, 1911-1945 (mostly 1945), and various correspondents. Some letters are addressed to both sisters, and a few may have been sent solely to Olwen Rhys. Many relate to the proposed biography of John Rhŷs. Included are letters from A. E. Bayly, Helen Gladstone, Margaret M. Verney, James A. H. Murray, Richard Jones, A. H. Sayce (22), P. M. C. Kermode, Margaret Lloyd George (3), A. O. Vaughan (Owen Rhoscomyl), Richard Ellis, Rupert H. Morris, Edward Clodd, Donald A. Mackenzie, John Edward Lloyd, Henry Owen, J. Fisher (2), D. Brynmor Jones, J. H. Davies, W. J. Lewis, John Morris-Jones, N. V. Sidgwick, John Fraser, D. S. Margoliouth (6), J. L. C. Cecil-Williams, Goronwy Edwards, J. C. Collins, Paul Meyer (2), and James Darmesteter. The file also contains one letter, 1881, from Myvanwy Rhys to her father.

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 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 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').

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 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 Owen Edwards, Richard Ellis, Robinson Ellis (3), Émile Espérandieu, Herbert Davies-Evans, J. Gwenogvryn Evans (3), T. C. Evans (Cadrawd), A. M. Fairbairn, J. G. Frazer, Edward A. Freeman, Laurence Gomme, S. Baring-Gould, A. S. Green, Augusta P. Gregory, William B. Halhed, E. Sidney Hartland, F. Haverfield (13), George Charles Herbert (Earl of Powis), Charles Holroyd (note on reverse of watercolour of Knaresborough Castle), and Douglas Hyde.

Includes letters from Henry James, W. Goscombe John, Charlotte A. M. Johnes, E. Burne-Jones (2), J. Viriamu Jones (2), William Jones, William Jones, Benjamin Jowett, Camille Jullian (3), Lloyd Tyrell Kenyon, Andrew Lang (31), E. Ray Lankester, H. Elvet Lewis, W. M. Lindsay (4), J. Loth, and Franz Lützow.

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.

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.

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.

Manuscript draft, [1891], of the article, 'The inscriptions and language of the Northern Picts', by John Rhŷs, published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. xxvi (1891-1892); together with related notes, including a letter, 1895, in his hand addressed to Whitley Stokes.

Reprints, 1900-1905, of the column 'Yn amsang ein tadau' from the Pembroke County Guardian, including contributions by, and relating to, John Rhŷs. Also included are proofs, reprints and cuttings of articles from the column, published 1895-1909.

Papers, 1909-1911, relating to 'The Celtic inscriptions of Gaul, additions and corrections' by John Rhŷs, a paper originally delivered at the British Academy, and subsequently published in its Proceedings, vol. V (London, 1911). The file mostly comprises galley proofs and page proofs, 1911, some containing manuscript amendments and corrections by the author; together with photographs and sketches of plates included in the article, 1909-[1911].

Papers, [1864]-1913, mostly holograph notes, corrected proofs, and cuttings of addresses given by John Rhŷs, most of which were subsequently published.