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Darmesteter, James, 1849-1894.
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Album of letters,

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.

General correspondence,

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.

Letters to Elspeth Rhŷs,

Letters, 1864-1910, addressed to Elspeth Rhŷs, including some from John Rhŷs and other family members, with occasional letters and replies in her hand. Among the correspondents are Charles de Gaulle (12), Henri Gaidoz, A. H. Sayce (3), Hugh Derfel Hughes, E. R. Wharton, Eluned Morgan (2), Grant Allen, Edwin Hatch, Queen Victoria (copy), James Darmesteter (2), James MacFadden (2), David G. Ritchie, Frederick York Powell (2), O. M. Edwards, W. R. Morfill, Thomas Ellis (4), Paul Meyer, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (Marquess of Bute, 2), William Jones (2), Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, J. A. Simon, Annie J. Ellis, James Hills-Johnes, Ellis J. Ellis-Griffith, Alfred Daniell, D. Brynmor Jones, Marie Corelli, Edward Anwyl, E. Vincent Evans, Lydia E. Becker, A. Darmesteter, Frances Hoggan, and John Dillon.

Letters to Myvanwy Rhys

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.

Rhys, Olwen.

Undated letters A-D,

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.