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Discusses Budge's future, and reports that he has seen the latter, and has been in conversation with Dr Stainer on the subject. Believes that, although Budge could derive great advantage from his remaining on at Cambridge, he is not in a condition 'to make the best of the opportunity', and he is 'inclined to acquiesce in his view that he should obtain employment and independence as soon as possible. Discusses and discounts his possible return to a business world, or his working as a private secretary. Refers to Budge's own desire to obtain an Inspectorship of Schools. Asks Sidgwick to recommend him in this sphere.

Reports that he has written to Budge that day advising him to stay on at Cambridge as Sidgwick suggested. Claims that he did not 'in the first instance propose an Inspectorship of Schools as the best employment for him.' His own view was that Budge would be competent to undertake a student interpretership in the East, but Mr Gladstone did not seem to be in agreement. Dr S[tainer] suggested the Inspectorship, 'which Budge himself very much desired'. It has become clear, however, that he has no chance of obtaining an appointment, and 'it would be unwise to leave Cambridge until he finds some employment in which his peculiar attainments will be of value.' Hopes that he may be induced to continue on with his studies.

Claims to be 'absolutely powerless' in the matter of employment for [E.A. Wallis] Budge, and that he never uses his influence in this way', 'except in the case of a Private Secretaryship.' Mentions, and seems to dismiss, the position of Inspector of Schools. Also refers to the British Museum, where Budge 'is known to Dr Birch'. Claims that there are only two things he can and could do; 'to subscribe' or 'to tell at the Council Office, Museum, or wherever it may be, the story of his [ ] and struggling life.' Invites Sidgwick and Mrs Sidgwick to visit him the following Thursday at 10 am, if he comes to London. With envelope.

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).

Writes in relation to [E. A. Wallis] Budge, about whose future Mr [W.H.] Smith, 'Budge's old and kind employee', is concerned. Mentions that Smith suggested an application to the Foreign Office on his behalf, but Gladstone thinks Budge to be 'more made for study than for action', and had Cambridge in mind for his education. Asks Sidgwick, who had shown 'kind interest in this youth', for his opinion.

Pembroke, Barwell, Leicester - Has just bought the 12-volume 'Golden Bough' and admires it; Sir Wallis Budge's 'From Fetish to God [in Ancient Egypt]' and Professor Freud's 'Totem and Taboo' made him want to read it.

E. & A. Antiquities, British Museum. Dated 13 November 1902 - Does not know if E. B. Tylor's theory about figures [on the Assyrian reliefs in the British Museum as the King fertilising the palm tree] is accepted by orientalists generally; sends the reference to the paper's publication; Tylor explains the object they are holding; answers Frazer's questions about fir trees, and eagle-headed figures.