Item 66-71 - Six copy letters from J. G. Frazer to John Roscoe

6 items; typescript copies

Six letters concerning Frazer's part in further negotiations relating to the funding of Roscoe's work in Central Africa. The letters date from 30 April to 22 May, 1914, and are written from the Albemarle Club and Batt's Hotel in London where he obtained advice from [Arthur] Shipley, and from the Midland Hotel in Manchester on the 8th and 13th May when his brother [Samuel] died; and at the end of May a short holiday at the Grand Hotel in Llandudno. In the letters of 30 April (Items 66 and 67, misnumbered: 67 is written in the morning and 66 in the evening) Frazer mentions seeing Shipley and hopes to get an interview with Reid [Herbert Read], the Under Secretary for the Colonies, and suggests proposing an appointment of eighteen months with a year in Africa and six months working up the report, and mentions this was Lilly's idea; he also forwards a letter [not transcribed] from [W. H. R.] Rivers, who writes discouragingly about a fellowship at St. John's. In the letter of 1 May, he encloses a draft of the letter to Harcourt and suggests he get it signed by [A. C.] Haddon, [William] Ridgeway and Rivers, and reports that he spoke to Ray Lankester and Sir Henry Miers, who are interested. The letter of 8th May reports the serious illness of his brother, and the letter of 13th May thanks him for his sympathy, and continues to discuss the letter to [Lewis] Harcourt; and the letter of 22nd May encloses an answer to the letter [not transcribed], which he describes as 'satisfactory'.