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44 Carlos Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad B.W.I. - In the first letter, he encloses a letter [not present] he has submitted to 'Nature' about a perceived snub of Frazer by Malinowski in his article of 26 Feb. 1926. States he has been collecting survivals of superstitions and native customs in Trinidad. In the second letter he apologises for annoying Frazer, says 'Nature' has declined to print the letter but has sent it on to Malinowski, to his dismay. Explains Frazer's influence on him and discusses the nature of the work he has done in Trinidad.

Oberbozen - Congratulates Frazer, has no sooner written him one letter than he needs to write another with OM on the envelope; is pleased his fellow companion is Rutherford, is certain there are thousands of people in England who will rejoice with him, and knows Lady Frazer must be well pleased.

28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13 - Half sheet of paper of the beginning of a letter about the Frazer lectures volume: material is almost ready for the printer; Moret's lecture took a long time as he verified all the references; shall not abridge Malinowski's essay as it should be done by him and he is away; will add a note that some lectures are longer because they were worked up into book form.

Manuscript draft, corrected, in Frazer's hand. Accompanied by an envelope.

Albemarle Club, 37 Dover Street, London W.1 - Thanks him for his "generous" review of the Fasti in Nature, especially for noting its double relation to science and humanism; enjoyed his speech at the Edvard Westermarck dinner and says he is perfectly right in describing Frazer as a pupil of Westermarck, for whom he has great respect.

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, London E.C.4. Dated 3 March 1922 - Gives the reference in 'Man' where [John] Roscoe's account of the temporary annual king of Bunyoro appears; will be most pleased to go to Oxford to hear his lecture; has just finished reading proofs of Malinowski's new book on the 'Kula' of the Trobriand Islanders ['Argonauts of the Western Pacific'?]; and [Charles] Hobley's new 'Bantu Beliefs and Magic', both interesting and valuable.

28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13 - Thanks her for sending letters from Mlle. Rivet and Paul Geuthner; has begun to mark copy [of the Frazer Lectures volume] for the printer, is adding footnotes - Moret's lecture will take time; the size of the page is determined by Evans' illustrations; will need to rewrite Westermarck's MS, as it is full of corrections; the lectures are of unequal lengths, with Malinowski's the longest; asks for some information on the origin for the Introduction; Macmillan says they can publish in October only if it is sent at an early date; Macmillan will not pay him for the work.

Xerox photocopies of over 240 letters, many of them of originals housed in other institutions. The letters are written by Frazer to multiple recipients with a few exceptions: eight are written by Lilly Frazer (to Miss Buckley, Sir Edmund Gosse, Bronisław Malinowski, and W. H. D. Rouse); one is from Henry Jackson to Frazer and five more are from others to others (two from Macmillan & Co. to Hermann Diels, one from Sir Francis Galton to Sir Clements Markham forwarding a letter from Frazer, one unrelated letter from John Sampson to Francis Jenkinson, and one memo from Otto Stapf to Sir David Prain). Five letters include covering letters from the institutions providing the copies. In addition, there are copies of a typescript draft of Frazer's article 'Our Debt to France', the draft of an address on the founding of the Frazer lectureships, and a translation of an article.

Recipients, with the number of letters present if more than five: Aksel Andersson, Terence Armstrong, Spencer Baird, Andrew Bennett, Arthur Bigge (Lord Stamfordham), Miss Buckley (of the Loeb Classical Library), Sir Ernest Budge, John Bullbrook, Francis Burkitt, Edward Clodd, Francis Cornford (16 letters), Otto Crusius, Sir Edwin Deller (6 letters), Hermann Diels (10 letters), Samson Eitrem, S. J. Evis, Jesse Fewkes, Douglas Freshfield, Sir Francis Galton (14 letters), Ernest Gardner, Charles-Marie Garnier (6 letters), Sir Edmund Gosse (42 letters), A. C. Haddon, Sir William Hardy (6 letters), Carl Lehmann-Haupt, C. W. Hobley, A. W. Howitt (7 letters), Mary Howitt, Henry Jackson, Francis Jenkinson (8 letters), Oskar Kallas, Sir Arthur Keith, William F. J. Knight, John Mackay, Bronisław Malinowski (9 letters), William Maxwell, A. G. W. Murray, G. G. A. Murray, Sir John Myres, Theodor Nöldeke, Karl Pearson, Sir David Prain (8 letters), Edward Rapson, A. G. Ross, Sir William Rothenstein, W. H. D. Rouse, Gustave Rudler, Charles Edward Sayle, Solomon Schechter (7 letters), Douglas Sladen, William Thalbitzer, Sir J. J. Thomson (21 letters), Sir D'Arcy Thompson, Hermann Usener, Sir Emery Walker, and Alfred Rayney Waller (6 letters).

27 Pentland Terrace, Edinburgh - Apologises for being slow in sending the enclosed notes on Kiriwinian fire making [not present], everything is packed in order to leave on 6 Nov.; thanks Lady Frazer for the introduction to Dr [Richard] Caton, who will host them for two nights [in Liverpool] before they leave.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks him for the preface to the French translation of the third volume of 'The Fear of the Dead'; is particularly interested in the part magic appears to play in the economic activities of the Trobriand Islanders, as noted in 'Argonauts of the Pacific'; is inclined to support Baldwin Spencer's theory of totemism.

Zehlendorf - Has written to Mr Kohlhammer about the payment and thinks it has gotten caught up in 'red tape'; asks her to have the publisher send Sir James' latest publications so he can review them in his "Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Soziologie", of which Malinowski is co-editor.

Announcements of the publication of the book, and reviews, by Sir John Squire in 'The Daily Telegraph', Bronisław Malinowski in 'Nature', A. C. Haddon in 'Antiquity', Ernst [later Ernest] Manheim in 'Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung' and J. H. H. [John Henry Hutton?] in 'Man'. With 2 duplicate cuttings.

Soprabolzano, Prov. di Bolzano, N. Italy - All students will be grateful for his decision to publish his anthropological notebooks; he had suggested in the past that Frazer publish them.

19 Avenue du Progrès, Vanves (Seine) - Undated letter, probably written before Jan. 15, 1927, concerning the French translation of J. G. Frazer's works; in which he mentions hearing from Salomon Reinach and Bronisław Malinowski.

Typescript draft in English (Item 31), a carbon copy of Item 30, with pencilled notes translating some words and phrases into French, with a note identifying it at top in Lady Frazer's hand; with a manuscript draft of the French translation in the hand of la marquise de Luppé, [corrected in the hand of Bronislaw Malinowski?, see FRAZ/2/144] (Item 32); and three copies of a corrected typescript draft.

63 cuttings announcing or reviewing 'Totemica', including two copies of Bernard Malinowski's review in the March 19, 1938 issue of 'Nature', and two of A. L. Morton's review in the April 1938 issue of 'Criterion'; there is also a review by E. N. Fallaize in the 'Manchester Guardian' and by Frederick J. Gould in 'The Literary Guide' of November, 1937. Two additional cuttings relate to 'Greece and Rome'.

Four manuscript lists given to Frazer by Salomon Reinach, Henri Hubert, and Lucien Herr. Accompanied by an envelope from the Hotel Lutetia with Frazer's list of contents, referring to a list from Houtin not found here.

Typescript draft, corrected in several hands, with a struck out note at top, 'J'ai une imbecile pour Secretaire!' [in Malinowski's hand?] and a later typescript draft. Both are in English; the later draft has a title in French.

Unsigned manuscript draft in Malinowski's hand.

27, Pentland Terrace, Edinburgh - Encloses a translation of the fire myth from the village of Moligilagi of two women of the Lukwasisiga clan mentioned in the letter of 1 September, and an account of the thunder (Pilapala) myth; is working on Social Psychology, problems connected with 'Phantom of the Collective Soul'; has been reading [William] McDougall's 'Group Mind', [Wilfred] Trotter's 'Herd Instinct' ['Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War'], and [Martin] Conway's 'Crowd' ['The Crowd in Peace and War'] and finds them full of interesting suggestions, sometimes sound, sometimes preposterous, 'all ignore the need of looking to facts for main inspiration'; the two most dangerous blind alleys at present are the 'Collective Soul' school and the branch of the 'Culture contact' school 'which denies all value and possibly psychological analysis'; may be in London soon to meet a French Jewish trader from the Trobriands interested in the native ignorance of procreation, who speaks the native language quite well.

Accompanied by the envelope.

27, Pentland Terrace, Edinburgh - Has a fire myth, and will send either the verbatim account or a loose translation, as Frazer wishes; the myth is from the village of Moligilagi, concerning two women of the Lukwasisiga clan; cites C. G. Seligman's 'Melanesians'; is finding it difficult to book passage to the Canary Islands and will have to go to Liverpool to sort it out; wife and daughter are back from the nursing home and they are flourishing; the Polish situation is cleared up but there are other countries with troubles. Accompanied by the envelope.

28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13. - Will send her the specimen page [for the Frazer Lectures volume]; is pleased to hear Frazer's eyesight is improving; thanks her for the offer of a signed photograph of Frazer; has filed Malinowski's letter with the others; asks how to get the Pausanias and "Garnered Sheaves" at the discount she mentioned; still busy with the Napoleonic period volume, is also writing a biography of Charles Wycliffe Goodwin; encloses a rough draft of the title page for her approval.

Caledonian Station Hotel, Princess Street, Edinburgh. Dated 21 November 1924 - First page only, breaks off mid-sentence. Asks for news, as it has been a long time; sends a notice of a research studentship at Trinity; his presence would help the Cambridge Anthropological School which is not flourishing, asks if he knows [L. C. G.] Clarke, the Curator of the Anthropological Museum; asks his opinion of [W. H. R.] Rivers' posthumous works; are settled in Cambridge, has a room at Trinity for his library, and sleep at the Blue Boar Hotel in Trinity Street; is giving the Gifford lectures on the Worship of Nature in Edinburgh, so far the only novelty was a suggestion that the Biblical story of the Fall of Man is of negro origin.

Vienna. Dated 10.10.23 - Thanks him for the invitation to Paris, has been ill and could not go, wonders if mail has gone astray and gives his corrected address in Oberbozen.

Oberbozen, pres Bolzano (Alto Adige), Italie. Dated 25.5.23 - His first love for anthropology is associated with having the GB read to him by his mother; was diagnosed with tuberculosis of a relative benign nature but has to undergo another year of treatment; has been appointed to a readership in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics while W. J. Perry was made Reader in Cultural Anthropology at University College; isn't happy that he has been lumped with Perry, and had to postpone a year; his position is in part due to a strong movement to counteract Elliot Smithianism; is not happy that University College is full of hostility to Seligman; would be glad to lecture at Cambridge as others do, it is a more fruitful field for teaching and would like to work with Frazer, but cautions that there are some in Cambridge who see him as an outsider, but perhaps after his book has been published this may change; Seligman has been very ill; asks if he could introduce him to anthropological and sociological people in Rome, he has to do research there for articles for 'Nature'.

Hotel Lutetia, 45, Boulevard Raspail, Paris (6e). Dated 21 May 1923 - Thanks him for his kind review of the abridged version of the GB; asks how he progresses with his book and his health, asks if he is well enough for an appointment to an English university, would like to bring him to Trinity; saw a post advertised for University College, London, which he assumes is created for [William] Perry, 'who devils for [Grafton] Elliot Smith', but [Marcel?] Mauss tells him Malinowski has been appointed to the post.

Hotel Lutetia, 45, Boulevard Raspail, Paris (6e). Dated 6 February 1923 - Is sorry to hear he has been ill; the 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific' has gotten a unanimous chorus of praise; values his opinion and thanks him for kinds words of the abridged GB; is in Paris, Lilly is making a French translation of the abridged GB and he is making an English translation of Ovid's Fasti for the Loeb Library, with glimpses of old Roman religion 'but most of the points in it have been threshed out already'; went to an interesting meeting of the Ecole d'Anthropologie, with [Louis] Capitan reading a paper of a cave discovered by Count Begouin [Begouen] in Southern France, and a communication about a tribe, the Habes, in the valley of the Niger, who have many taboos; [Alfred] Haddon doesn't have many anthropological students at Cambridge and speaks well of the new Curator of the Anthropological Museum, [L. C. G.] Clarke; [John] Roscoe's first volume should be out soon, it is interesting and valuable; is glad [Edvard] Westermarck is writing more on Morocco; hope to settle in a house being built for them in Cambridge in the autumn.

Oberbozen, pres Bolzano (Alto Adige), Italie. Dated 30.I.23 - Is being treated for tuberculosis in a sanatorium; has sent off his review of the abridged GB [which he calls 'The Twig'].

Oberbozen, Bolzano (Alto Adige), Italy. Dated 30.1.23 - Is writing a review of the abridged GB for 'Nature' and expresses his admiration; has been reading some of the Freudian stuff in the anthropological line: their psychology isn't nonsense 'but their Anthropology is vile'; is writing up the sexual chapters of his material; [Edvard] Westermarck says he is preparing new volumes about Morocco.

El Boquin, Icod de los Vinos, Jenerife [Tenerife], Canary Isles. Dated 8.5.21 - Thanks him for his letter and the enclosed letter from George Macmillan, and for supporting his work, wants the work to sell; found that [Charles] Seligman had approached him and had even asked Frazer to write the preface, and apologises that he was approached twice about talking to Macmillan; shares his preference to avoid writing prefaces to books by other people; is now working out the full material and hopes to be done in 18 months.