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Includes letters from R. A. Stewart Macalister (2), J. Glyn Davies (4), D. Lloyd George (3), Robert Mowat (4, one includes a note by Whitley Stokes on reverse), Evan Rees ('Dyfed'), Patrick Power, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (2), Lewis Morris (3), T. Herbert Warren (4), F. J. Furnivall, Edward Laws (2), Horace Hart (13), Edward Caird (2), A. H. Sayce, Julio de Urquijo (4), Alfred Daniell, Sidney Lee (2), J. Romilly Allen (5), W. James (2), John Rowland, Thomas Shankland, S. H. Church, A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (7), Richard Ellis, George Eyre Evans (3), John Edward Lloyd (3), William Jones, Rudolf Thurneysen, J. Strachan, Hugh Williams, J. G. Schurman (3), Goddard H. Orpen (2), Edward Owen (10), E. W. B. Nicholson (3), John C. Roberts, Isaac Craigfryn Hughes (2), George Curzon (2), E. S. Dodgson (40), W. H. Preece, J. H. Hessels, H. H. Asquith (2), D. Brynmor Jones, John Bradbury, W. G. Smith, Henry Owen (3), John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (2), Thomas Powel (2), J. Gwenogvryn Evans (3), Norman Lockyer, Thurstan C. Peter (2), J. G. Swift MacNeill, H. Campbell-Bannerman, S. Baring-Gould, Robert P. Porter, S. L. Clemens, Bernard FitzPatrick (Baron Castletown), A. S. Green, Marie Corelli, Erskine Beveridge (3), Henry Jones (2), W. Hawker Hughes, J. C. Collins, Robert S. Ball, J. Loth (2), J. Jusserand (3), Arturo Campión, Camille Jullian, William Iago, Gustav Roethe (2), Osborn J. Bergin, Heinrich Zimmer, Robinson Ellis, Charles Plummer, Edward Anwyl (2), W. M. Ramsay (2), Andrew Lang, Bernard P. Grenfell, Kuno Meyer (2), F. C. Conybeare, R. R. Marett, T. H. Thomas, Arthur Bernard Cook, Henry Browne, Almeric W. FitzRoy, W. Rhys Roberts, J. H. Davies, Rowland Ellis, T. F. Tout, T. Witton Davies, F. Haverfield (3), Edward Clodd, J. Myfenydd Morgan (2), E. Vincent Evans, Anatole le Braz, H. Osthoff, G. L. Barstow (2), Ingram Bywater, George Eyre Evans, R. Gwyneddon Davies, and Hubert von Herkomer.

Includes letters from J. H. Davies, William Jones, Thomas Gray, Patrick Lyons (4), Lewis Morris (2), Lloyd Tyrell Kenyon, Osborn J. Bergin (3), H. W. Williams, Wilfred Ward (2), Edward Anwyl (2), Paul Meyer (2), D. H. Madden, Richard Ellis, J. B. Bury (2), H. R. Reichel, I. Gollancz, Henry Jones, J. H. Adeane, Robert Cochrane (4), John Healy, Goddard H. Orpen (4), J. Strachan, Michael Beary (3), Ernest Rhys, Edmund Hogan (2), John I. D. Nicholl (2), Henry Bradley, E. B. Poulton, Edward Owen (4), Karl Blind, Henry H. Howorth, F. C. Conybeare, W. Trevor Parkins, T. A. Archer, Richard Henebry, Hugh Williams, John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (3), Charles W. Dilke, R. A. Stewart Macalister, A. W. Moore, W. M. Lindsay, Robinson Ellis (2), Thomas Powel, Gilbert Goudie (2), John Abercromby (2), Thomas J. Westropp (2), D. R. Thomas (5), Alfred Neobard Palmer, A. H. Sayce (2), T. Marchant Williams, T. F. Roberts, Augusta Herbert, Theodor Mommsen, E. S. Dodgson (2), Wentworth Webster, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (2), E. K. Jones (3), Henry Owen, F. T. Barry (3), J. Fisher, Francis Jenkinson (2), W. Boyd Dawkins (2, one enclosing a letter from E. K. Jones), R. H. Charles (2), Arthur G. Langdon, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, D. Brynmor Jones, F. C. Burkitt (2), Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke), and Paul Vinogradoff.

Includes letters from Robert Cochrane (6), Paul Meyer (3), D. Brynmor Jones (4), E. Perceval Wright, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, S. Baring-Gould (7), Arthur Guinness (Baron Ardilaun), Charles Henry Glascodine, H. Arthur Doubleday (2), George F. Black, Frederick York Powell, Camille Jullian (2), Patrick Lyons, E. S. Dodgson (4), Harry Speight, W. H. Hutton, Edward Owen (3), Edward Clodd, John Healy, W. M. Flinders Petrie, R. A. Stewart Macalister (3), F. Carruthers Gould, Isambard Owen, Edward Anwyl (2), William Jones, F. Haverfield (3), Ll. J. M. Bebb (2), W. J. M Liddall, W. Fitzjohn Trench, Augusta Gregory, Francis J. Jayne, Alfred Neobard Palmer, J. B. Bury (7), A. W. Wade-Evans, J. P. Mahaffy (3), A. H. Sayce, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, Jean Réville (2), D. R. Thomas, A. Cowley, T. C. Evans ('Cadrawd'), T. F. Roberts, A. V. Dicey, Charles Roeder (3), R. C. Jebb, Seaton F. Milligan, E. Sidney Hartland, Ivor James, Armand Dayot, W. M. Lindsay, J. Strachan, Kuno Meyer (2), Alexander Hugh Bruce (Baron Balfour of Burleigh), W. H. St. John Hope, H. R. Reichel, A. W. Scott, William B. Halhed, Hugh R. Hughes (2), Ingram Bywater, Thomas Gray, F. C. Conybeare, James Robertson (Baron Robertson), and E. W. B. Nicholson.

Includes letters from J. Gwenogvryn Evans, E. Maunde Thompson, A. S. Green, Heinrich Zimmer, E. S. Dodgson (2), James A. H. Murray (3), Henry Bradley, F. Haverfield (2), Theodore Roosevelt, George G. T. Treherne (2), F. C. Conybeare, C. E. Doble, John Herbert James (3), D. B. Monro, George Goschen (Viscount Goschen), D. Brynmor Jones (4), I. Gollancz, E. W. B. Nicholson (5), Wentworth Webster (2), Arthur G. Langdon, Edmund Lechmere, Alfred L. Jones, W. R. Morfill, Edgar Jones, Alfred Anscombe (2), W. P. Ker, D. Lloyd George, Randall Davidson (2), F. C. Burkitt, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Alfred Daniell, William Boyle, Spencer Walpole, John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (2), Edward Owen (2), G. Hartwell Jones, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, T. Marchant Williams, W. H. Preece (3), David James ('Defynog'), Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, Henry Owen, E. Lorimer Thomas, W. Hawker Hughes, Horace Hart, Goddard H. Orpen (2), Daniel Rees, Charles E. Breese (4), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (4), H. R. Reichel, A. Sidgwick, Edward Anwyl (2), Laurence Gomme, Henri Gaidoz, William B. Halhed, J. B. Bury (2), J. Romilly Allen, and Lewis Morris (2).

Includes letters from R. J. R. Loxdale (3), Betha Hills-Johnes (2), D. Brynmor Jones (11), Edward Owen (7), Richard Jones Owen ('Glaslyn') (4), Ivor James (5), William E. Oakeley, Edward Anwyl (7), E. B. Tylor (8), Charles Roeder (6), Henri Logeman (enclosing letter from Georges Hulin), John Garstang, J. Glyn Davies (5), E. Sidney Hartland (2), W. M. Lindsay (3), John Lloyd (2), Joseph Bailey (Baron Glanusk) (2), J. H. Davies (5), Pym Yeatman (2), Llywarch Reynolds (5), J. H. Hessels, Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant') (9), A. S. Napier (2), W. H. Stevenson (3), Sydney Herbert, J. Fisher (2), W. F. R. Weldon, George Henderson (4, enclosing a letter from Alexander Carmichael), Isaac Craigfryn Hughes (4), Emilia F. S. Dilke (2), John Thomas ('Eifionydd'), S. F. Harmer, S. Baring-Gould (4), Alfred Anscombe (2), D. E. Jenkins, George Noble Plunkett, T. McKenny Hughes, P. M. C. Kermode (7), T. Fowler (2), Henri Gaidoz, George G. T. Treherne (8), Walter J. Evans, J. Brynach Davies (2), W. M. Flinders Petrie (4), W. Lewis Jones (2), Patrick Lyons (13), W. R. Morfill (2), E. W. B. Nicholson, A. L. Mayhew, D. Rhys Phillips (13), J. G. Frazer (6), J. Romilly Allen, Meredith J. Hughes, Charlotte A. M. Johnes, Eleanor Hull (2), Frederick York Powell, H. W. Williams (3), Clarence M. Dobell (2), J. Viriamu Jones, T. H. Thomas, Edward Clodd (2), Kuno Meyer, Thomas Prichard, David R. Hughes, A. H. Sayce (2), Henry Jones (3), J. Anderson, David G. Ritchie (3), Magnus Maclean, Mary Davies, A. C. Haddon, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, F. Haverfield (2), David MacRitchie (2), Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, John L. Myres, Giuseppe Sergi (2), W. J. Sollas, W. A. Craigie, Arthur J. Evans (2), H. G. Keene, D. Emlyn Evans, Wentworth Webster, A. Hutcheson, J. A. R. Marriott, D. Morgan Lewis, and J. Gwenogvryn Evans.

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.

A volume in continuation of Cwrtmawr MS 758 containing fifty holograph letters, postcards, etc., from John Rhys and one holograph letter on his behalf by Elspeth Rhys from Oxford, etc., 1885-1901, to D. Silvan Evans at Llanwrin. Subjects of the correspondence include an interpretation of a text ('Neu vi luossawc yntrydar ....') from the Book of Taliesin, numerous problems of Welsh etymology, a manuscript dictionary discovered by Gwenogvryn Evans at the Bodleian Library, observations on the recipient's dictionary, adjudication on essays [submitted to the London national eisteddfod, 1887], arrangements for meetings of the Tithe Agitation Committee (1887) (of which the writer was Secretary), an address at Bangor, a contribution to Y Traethodydd, the application of J. M[orris] Jones for the lectureship at Bangor [University College], the illness of Dr [Gudbrandur] Vigfússon [at Oxford], an English version of an inscribed englyn at Michaelston-super-Ely, condolence on the recipient's bereavement [i.e. the death of his wife], a gift to the recipient of the writer's Studies in the Arthurian Legend, Mr [E. G. B.] Phillimore's attack on the 'caddishness' of Welsh people and especially of members of the 'Dafydd ab Gwylym Club', the interpretation of the old stones at Wareham, the progress of [J. Morris] Jones's publication of 'Llyfr yr Ancr', the treatment of Wales 'under the rule of Lord Aberdare quite recently' (12 November 1892), letters of congratulations to the writer [on his appointment as Principal of Jesus College, Oxford], the application for the grant to the recipient of a Civil List pension, the election of the recipient to a three years' fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford, the possibility of the grants of Cymmrodorion medals to the writer and the recipient (1897) (with observations on Phillimore's work as editor of the Society's publications), thanks for a new 'Sten [Sioned] (1901), personal, etc. The volume also contains holograph letters and postcards from T. Marchant Williams [from London] to Egerton Phillimore and to [Daniel Lewis Lloyd] bishop [of Bangor] (copy), 1897 (2) (a Civil List grant to D. Silvan Evans), John Rhys to 'Harry Silvan' [J. H. Silvan Evans], 1897-1906 and undated (3) (a Civil List grant to D. Silvan Evans, the livings of Llanddewi Velfrey and Llandow (with a reference to the claim of [John Edwin] de Hirsch-Davies), John Rhys to [Robert Roberts ('Y Sgolor Mawr')], 1879 (1) (Celtic philology) (23pp.), and Myvanwy Rhys, Aberystwyth to [J. H.] Davies, [19]20 (1) (returning the John Rhys letters contained in Cwrtmawr MSS 758-9).

A volume of notes taken by Timothy Lewis at Dr J. Gwenogvryn Evans's lectures on palaeography at the University of Manchester, 1906-1907 (ff. 20-56); Lewis's printed registration book for the University of Berlin, 1908 (ff. 57-68); and a manuscript 'Bibliography of Material relating to the History of Wales' in the hand of E[dward] A[rthur] Lewis, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1900-1901 (ff. 1-19).
The registration book lists lectures to be taken, October 1908-March 1909 (ff. 59 verso-60), but is otherwise unused.

A letter, 1999, from Rodney Jones, relating to the location and original construction of the grave of Dr John Gwenogvryn Evans (1852-1930) and his wife Edith (d. 1923) which he prepared for himself in a rock near their home at Tremvan Hall, Llanbedrog, Caernarvonshire, where the donor's mother worked as a domestic servant; together with a plan of the grave.

A diary by Emrys Hunter Evans (1880-1970), son of John Gwenogvryn Evans, of holidays, mostly spent with his parents in Old Colwyn, co. Denbigh, during the summer of 1893; the diary also contains references to J. Gwenogvryn Evans visiting Lord Mostyn (ff. 20, 24).

Two volumes which contain two groups of scrapbooks, eighteen in all, containing materials relating principally to Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire, compiled by George Eyre Evans in 1910 in his capacity of Assistant Inspector to the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire.
They consist of notes in the autograph of George Eyre Evans, including extracts from the parish registers of Llanidloes, 1616-1747, Llanerfyl, 1670-1783, and Cemmaes, 1733-1812, and a transcript of a part of a journal of a visit by the Reverend Thomas Price, vicar of Merthyr Tydfil, to Dolcoed Wells, Llanwrtyd, 1762; autograph letters to George Eyre Evans from Henry Bonsal, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Llanbedrog, S. A. Evans, Llanbadarn Fawr, H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury, C. P. Gasquoine, Caxton Press, Oswestry, F. W. Gibbins, Pendine, J. D. James, Llanerfyl Rectory, D. E. Jones, Board of Education, Katie Jones, Llansilin, D. C. Lloyd Owen, Four Oaks, Warwickshire, Elsie Owen, Cwmrhaiadr, Machynlleth, O. R. Owen, Llangynog, Norman Penney, Friends' Historical Society, London, J. H. Swann, Manchester, E. R. Vaughan, Staylittle and John Williams, Llanwddyn Vicarage; photographs, illustrations, rubbings of inscriptions, press cuttings and broadsides; and miscellanea, including notes in Welsh on the ancient monuments of Cemmaes, compiled in 1909 by Hugh Francis, clerk to the parish council.