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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.

Notebooks, [1887]-1902, mostly comprising lists, compiled by John Rhŷs, of nouns, personal names and place names, included in manuscripts, glosses and codices, with related notes.

Four volumes, [1872x1877], containing notes on Welsh phonology, vowels, and words derived from Latin, possibly compiled by John Rhŷs in preparation for his lectures on Welsh philology. The book on Welsh phonology includes notes in Myvanwy Rhys's hand.

Various notebooks, [1855x1915], most of which appear to have belonged to John Rhŷs and are written in his hand; some appear to be school books and lecture notes. They mainly relate to philology, including lists of words, names in pedigrees, and notes on manuscripts and inscriptions. Several books also record folklore and legends.

Includes letters from E. C. Quiggin, Salomon Reinach (6), Ernest Renan (2), Franklin T. Richards (2), George E. Robinson (5), William Sanday (2), Hugo Schuchardt, Cuthbert Shields, W. W. Skeat, William Stubbs, John Thickens, Llewellyn Thomas, A. O. Vaughan (Owen Rhoscomyl (3), H. L. D. Ward (2), T. Herbert Warren, Jessie L. Weston (2), Oscar Wilde, John Wordsworth, Joseph Wright, and Frederick G. Wynn (3).

Includes letters from J. G. Swift MacNeill, R. A. Stewart Macalister (2), Donald A. Mackenzie, J. P. Mahaffy (2), Constance de Markiewicz, W. R. Morfill (2), Eluned Morgan, Lewis Morris (3), Gilbert Murray, James A. H. Murray (2), A. S. Napier (4), E. W. B. Nicholson, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Goddard H. Orpen, William Osler (2), Henry Owen (2), W. M. Flinders Petrie (3), Charles Plummer (4), Julius Pokorny, and Frederick York Powell (6).

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.

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 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.

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'.

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.

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.

Incomplete manuscript draft, [1894], consisting mainly of Chapter IX, of The outlines of the phonology of Manx Gaelic (Oxford, 1894), by John Rhŷs; together with reviews, [1894]-1895.

Papers, 1898-1910, relating to the 'The Coligny calendar' by John Rhŷs. The paper was originally delivered at the British Academy, and subsequently published in its Proceedings, vol. IV (London, 1910). They mostly consist of proofs, 1909-1910, some containing manuscript amendments and corrections by the author, of 'The Coligny calendar', 'Notes on the Coligny calendar: additions and corrections', and 'The reconstruction of the Coligny calendar'. Also included are two letters, 1910, from J. K. Fotheringham, and printed copies of the charts compiled by Dissard and Espérandieu, 1898 and 1900.

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, 1913, relating to 'The Celtic inscriptions of Cisalpine Gaul' by John Rhŷs, a paper originally delivered at the British Academy, and subsequently published in its Proceedings, vol. VI (London, 1913). The file includes galley proofs and page proofs, some containing manuscript amendments and corrections by the author; photographs and sketches of plates; and reviews of the article.

Manuscript and printed copies, 1876-1877, of testimonials in support of John Rhŷs's candidature for the Celtic Professorship at Oxford, by Samuel Ferguson, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, D. R. Thomas, Ulick Joseph Bourke, A. Leskien, Costantino Nigra, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, Henri Gaidoz, Emil Hübner, Georg Curtius, Hugo Schuchardt, G. I. Ascoli, Robert Jones, D. Silvan Evans, and Whitley Stokes; together with related press cuttings.

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