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Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - '...a. most admirable piece of work...'

33 College Road..., Aberdeen. - 'Your letter has reached me here...'

Newnham College, Cambridge - Is sending the two reprints [not present], Mr Bosanquet's and her own; admires [F. M.] Cornford's grasp of mythology and ritual; asks if there is a parallel to the cannibal feast of Tantalus in initiation rites; thinks his lecture clears up the dispute between Cook and Cornford and Ridgeway; discusses mythical ancestors vs Ridgeway's insistence on historical persons; hopes he is coming to Ridgeway's lecture on Monday at which 'he proposes to demolish both Mr Cornford & me!'.

Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - 'I have today received Beazley's Gems of Lewes House...'

10 King's Parade, Cambridge. Dated 30 Oct. 1915 - Has sent his 'Golden Bough' and 'Psyche's Task' to Kingsmead, accidentally sent the anthropological questions there as well; has [William] Ridgeway's book which apparently controverts some of his views, and has had a friendly letter from him; [W. H. R.] Rivers is expected in Cambridge in two weeks, perhaps he can come visit then.

Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge - Congratulates the Frazers.

Ovington Rectory, Thetford. Dated 20 November 1915 - Has made two attempts to answer her letter, thinks it would be a grave mistake to shield James from [William] Ridgeway's book ['Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races '?]; says he will be happy to write thank you notes to his book's guarantors; fixes a day to visit; will take up the matter of the Gifford Lectures.

Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - '...you do not offer me congratulations on our successful resistance to the capture of the University by the Women.'

4 Lyall Street, Belgrave Square - Queries the custom of the severed dog that an army marched between after the peace was made, has asked [William] Ridgeway and [Charles] Hagberg Wright; also mentions the custom of burning rue to avoid the evil eye; would like to meet him.

Imperial Hotel, Barnstaple - Has just returned from an expedition and heard about Frazer's election to the Royal Society under special circumstances which enhance the honour; they are in Devonshire for the first holiday they've had in two years, as he was ill last summer.

Accompanied by the envelope.

Imperial Hotel, Barnstaple - Has just returned from an expedition and found her letter announcing Frazer's election to the Royal Society under special circumstances which enhance the honour; are in Devonshire for the first holiday they've had in two years; it will not be possible to meet her in Caius College and can't help her 'with the design you have in hand'.

Accompanied by the envelope.

20 pp. diary kept from 10 Dec. 1900 to 28 Feb. 1901 listing J. G. and Lilly Frazer's movements in Rome: places visited, and people seen, including [Giacomo] Boni, Wickham Steed and Madame [Clémence] Rose, Professor and Mrs [William] James, R. A. Neil, and A. E. Shipley. J. G. Frazer makes notes from a meeting on 16 Jan. with Miss Roma Lister, who gathered Italian folklore from peasants, and mentions her colleague C. G. Leland. On 19 Jan. he makes notes from a meeting with Dr [F. H.?] Burton-Brown, who lived amongst the Naga tribes in Assam. On 31 Jan. he describes an expedition to Nemi. On 27 Feb. he leaves Rome for Perugia. At the back of the volume are 2 1/2 pages of a bibliography of anthropological works, and two page list of 'Books Lent' from 1894-1905, to F. M Cornford, W. Ridgeway, A. B. Cook, W. H. D. Rouse, Miss [Aelfrida?] Tillyard, S. A. Cook, A. A. Bevan, and Prof. C. Bendall. This is followed by a short list of 'Ovid. Books to be Kept, Sept. 1928'.

The Lodge, Queen's College, Cambridge - Sends a subscription in memory of her father [Professor William Ridgeway]; is sorry to hear about Frazer's eyesight; thinks of him whenever she hears the word 'Killarney' and of cold drives in the outside car; the Backs are lined with a wonderful gold this autumn.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 9 June 1919 - Roscoe's letter to the Editor of 'The Times' [about Ruanda] appeared last Friday; he sent a copy to [Peter] Mackie; [William] Ridgeway is ill.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 24 July 1919 - [William] Crabtree wrote a notice in the July number of the Journal of the African Society; writes about the illness of Lilly Frazer (a bad cold), [William] Ridgeway (recovering), Henry Jackson (diabetes), and Dr Black (whooping cough); the Peace Day celebrations were unremarkable and the miners are behaving badly.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 7th July 1920 - Lists who he saw in Cambridge at the honorary degree ceremony: Arthur Balfour, the Ridgeways, [William?] Cox, A. B. Cook, Henry Jackson, who is frail; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; Sir Peter Mackie has given £3500 in total to the expedition; will send a copy of an article on his work among the Bahima in 'Man'; comments on the customs of the Banyoro; is interested in measurement of all kinds; have seen much of Malinowski; Lilly is much better and editing an anthology of recent French poetry for Oxford University Press, and has a big scheme in mind for developing French in Britain.

'...continuation of my rough Preface...' [chapters 3-13? outline for a book/dissertation?]

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 3 September 1920 - Suggests he stop in Egypt to look at the monuments on the way home; Sir Peter Mackie received a Baronetcy, the Ridgeways were congratulatory on the honorary degree and Royal Society fellowship, but he has not heard from Haddon or Rivers; has met Colonels Shakespear and Gurdon, who did anthropology work in Assam; threat of a coal strike.

'T. Strabo (634.54) tells us...'

Lanfine, Hills Road, Cambridge. Dated 7 March 1924 - Is sorry the expense of publishing his [Frazer] lecture is his, hopes to remedy this in future; has not heard from [William] Ridgeway; saw Bishop [Thomas Wortley] Drury at St. Catharine's; is sorry there are no congenial men in his neighbourhood; sees parallels between the use of children in ritual in 'The Banyankole' and ancient Greek ritual; asks if he has seen P. A. Talbot's 'Life in Southern Nigeria' and E. S. Hartland's 'Primitive Paternity'; gave his last lecture and is glad they are over.

London SW1.

Fen Ditton, Cambridge.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 19th May 1914 - Encloses a letter from his son [James?], who is assistant political officer in Simla; Haddon thought he would like to see it; has been reading proofs of E. A. Gait's paper on the Census; asks if he heard that Sylvain Lévi was called by a reporter to comment on Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel prize, 'on the ground that a learned Israelite would sure know something about "le rabbin Tégoro"'; [Sir William] Ridgeway is perturbed about Ulster, and took a leading part in the demonstration on Parker's Piece, but it was not well attended.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - An 'enviable description of the Azalea Paradise of dear Theodore's' [Robin Ghyll?]. Forgets how long the flowers last; they have stayed in one place this year long enough to have 'an idea of the transitoriness of flowers'; likes the 'little veronicas' increasingly. Has been seeing much of [Cecil] Knight, the head of the grammar school [King Edward VI School, Stratford]; his 'type is a very high one indeed'; he was at Pembroke College and greatly admired some 'Harrow men' who would have been Robert's contemporaries, Law and Prior. Has been reading much Plato after his recent 'great bout of Latin', and has had some 'wonderfully interesting letters from [Henry] Jackson', about Plato and himself, which Sir George finds just as interesting; he has sent him the 'Proelections' read in the Senate for the candidates for the [Cambridge] Greek Professorship in 1906: Jackson himself; Verrall; Adam, Headlam; Ridgeway. Caroline is well and strong, for her.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 10th December 1915 - Accepts an invitation to tea; [Sir William] Ridgeway, [Edmund Crosby] Quiggin and others were praising Frazer in the Combination Room; as for his three boys serving in the war [William, Martin, and James] his sapper boy who was wounded in January is off again to the Mediterranean, and the other two boys are in Flanders; has been writing a note to a French girl whose brother is missing and whose brother-in-law died at Verdun.