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Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial
nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. His Literature of the Kymry
(1849) was the first work to apply modern critical scholarship to
medieval Welsh literature. Throughout his career, he was an
outspoken critic of unscrupulous interpretations of the Welsh and
Celtic past. His scholarly ability brought him into correspondence
with notable writers from not only Wales, but across the world.
Indeed, writing the year after his death, B. T. Williams noted that
the publication of his correspondence ‘would be welcomed by all
Celtic scholars’, as it includes comments by many of the most
noted historians, literary critics and Celticists of his day on a
wide range of subjects. More than this, however, Stephens’s
correspondence shows the complex networks of knowledge exchange
which stretched across the nineteenth-century scholarly world and,
within those networks, the development of modern Welsh and Celtic
studies.
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