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Items of antiquarian interest, mostly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including account books, almanacs, tax assesments and terriers, wills, inquisitions post mortem and translations of medieval patent rolls. Egerton Phillimore sold many of his most valuable items to Sir John Williams in 1894, but this group of items remained in his possession.

Notebooks, reports and receipts from Egerton Phillimore's time at Westminster Boys' School and Christ Church, Oxford.

Personal documents, letters and memorabilia, 1848-1935, relating to Egerton Phillimore's closest family.

Personal bills, accounts, details of investments and purchases, reflecting Egerton Phillimore's perennially troubled financial situation.

Letters reflecting Phillimore's and Woodall's shared antiquarian interests.

Letters, 1869-1937, received by Egerton Phillimore, together with a small number of draft replies. They reflect all aspects of his academic, family, social and personal life.

Letters reflecting Phillimore's and Owen's shared antiquarian interests.

Letters reflecting Phillimore's and Bradney's shared antiquarian interests, as well as their mutual taste for rude limericks. Bradney habitually wrote to Phillimore in Latin.

Letter books containing copies of letters sent by Egerton Phillimore, 1878-1937 (mainly 1887-1893), to friends, relations, acquaintances and editors of periodicals, together with miscellaneous letters in his hand, including draft letters, copies of letters sent, and letters he wrote without ever posting, 1878-1936, and letters to his landladies, 1912-1929.

Letters sent to John George Phillimore and Rosalind Phillimore, comprising professional, family and social correspondence.

Transcripts made by Egerton Phillimore of early Welsh manuscripts held in libraries in London, Oxford, and various parts of Wales.

Notes, transcripts and drafts of articles published by Egerton Phillimore, 1881-1937, relating to manuscripts, history, literature, genealogy, place-names, grammar, etymology and other linguistic matters, primarily concerning Wales but also including material pertaining to England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as continental Europe. Interspersed among the notes are occasional diary entries and drafts of letters, usually relating to the same topics, as well as containing personal material.

Most of the poetry in this series is of Phillimore's own composition, and is in English, but he also composed a few poems in Welsh, transcribed works by other poets in English and Welsh, and translated a number of works from Welsh, Latin, French, German and Greek. Many parts of the more colourful passages of lewd verse have been written using Greek characters rather than Latin.

Phillimore's notes for the Description of Wales, in particular 'A Treatise of Lordshipps Marchers in Wales', 'Glamorgan' and 'Brecknock' for Volume 3, 1906; 'Carmarthen', 'Pembroke and Carmarthen', 'Cardigan', 'Denbigh', 'Flynt' and 'Montgomery' for Volume 4, 1936; 'Anglesey' and 'Carnarvon' for the unpublished fifth volume; and other miscellaneous topographical notes.

Galley proofs, with corrections in Egerton Phillimore's hand, of his 'Welsh Aedoeology', the first part of which was published in the second volume of a German journal entitled Kryptadia in 1884, pp. 323-97. It was widely believed to have been a collection of erotic Welsh literature, and it earned him an unfortunate reputation, but it was in fact a scholarly etymological work. The remainder of the 'Aedoeology' was never published, although it was meant to be continued in Volume III.