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18 Bradmore Road, Oxford - Has read his speech on receiving the freedom of Glasgow, and admires it; in a postscript, he arranges to meet.

"Sandridge," Boar's Hill, Oxford - Letters making arrangements to host the Frazers when Sir James gives the Zaharoff Lecture, mentioning their friends H. G. Fiedler and the Rudlers.

Speech at a gathering in Frazer's honour, in which he mentions [Alexander] Nairne, George Gilbert Ramsay, Lord Crawford, Sir William Boyd Dawkins, Sir Theodore Morison, Canon Farrer [Canon Farrar], [Robert Ranulph] Marett, and [Gustave] Rudler.

The Lane House, Norham Road, Oxford - Letters making arrangements for the Zaharoff Lecture, discussing the terms of the lectureship, especially the timing of the publication of the lecture, to details of movements on the day, mentioning their hostess Mrs Griffith and tea with the Rudlers.

Oxford, 18 Bradmore Road - She has been unwell; saw the Maretts and would like to give a lunch or dinner in the Frazers' honour at All Souls when they visit; has received the Frazer lectures volume; cannot attend the Doumergue dinner but thinks he is a good representative of France; has read of the successful Frazer conferences; her husband is writing an article on English universities; the French Club at Oxford invited Yvonne Arnaud, but she did not appear and a Mrs [Lucie?] Zimmern spoke in her place, advising the female students to do petit point and her husband, who objects when she pays attention to fashion, thought it a good talk.

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).

18 Bradmor Road, Oxford - Congratulates Frazer on the award of the Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur; shares the news that his mother died.

222, Rue du Fauboug St Honoré (VIIIe), Paris - Thanks her for her letter, has written to his editors for the extracts that she has requested authorisation to reproduce; received a letter from Rudler, offering to help arrange meetings at Oxford; thanks her for the addresses, will write the bishop of Durham; thanks her for speaking of him to Saurat.

222, Rue du Fauboug St Honoré, Paris, VIII - He is delighted with her letter, and told Rudler of her suggestion of Saurat; gives his opinion on the French and English church and Catholicism, hopes to have an independent forum in which to speak some truths; thanks Frazer for giving his life to the cult of truth; has received Sir James' 'Greece and Rome', is writing Rudler, and may write Marett as well.

19 Av. du Progrès, Vanves (Seine) - He hopes they will find a place in Cambridge with fresh air and proximity to a bus; he promises to do all she asks in representing their interests in his meeting with Geuthner; has been busy editing a number of the 'Chronique des Idées' which has taken up much time getting articles from people, has one from Mme de Pange [Pauline de Broglie], will have one from [Gustave] Rudler and [Marcel] Mauss; for 'L'Homme, Dieu et l'Immortalité' Geuthner is happy with the sales; thanks her for sending cuttings from English papers. With a postscript from Renée Sayn, that she is impatient to read her article on 'Love Letters'.

18 Bradmore Road, Oxford - Is enjoying the garden this Easter, and thanks her for the pretty and delicious present, and the flood of good news; invites them to lunch when they are in Oxford for the Frazer Lecture; is pleased to hear of the appearance of the "Anthologia Anthropologica", and quotes M. Ceccaldi that she makes miracles; admires her stoicism and serenity; congratulates her on "Pasha [the Pom]"; includes a subscription form for ["Anthologia Anthropologica"?]; her husband has been busy with the usual theses to read, committee meettings, etc., and she has been working on her book "Parnassiens, Symbolistes et Décadents"; next trimester will be busy with the 500th anniversary of All Souls, there will be the opening of a new wing to the Taylor; they will be going on a trip around Scotland, and will visit especially those places associated with Mary Stuart.

Oxford, 18 Bradmore Road - Has been ill with grippe and bronchitis, and will not be able to accept the invitation to come to Bath for the Christmas weekend; they read the article by Vincent de Peretti about Renan and Frazer with pleasure; admires the portrait of Sir James in the 'Manchester Journal'.

18 Bradmore Road, Oxford - Is sorry to hear that another operation is needed on Sir James' eyes; they were slow to hear about his Condorcet ['Condorcet on the Progress of the Human Mind'], and suggests they pick a date for the conference at the Taylorian, and they would announce it in the Gazette; is sure she regrets their nice set up at the British Museum and is amused by her statement that 'Cambridge nous tend ses bras humides'; her husband is absorbed in the marriage of Benjamin Constant; when they returned from holiday, they saw that someone had tried to break into the house; pigeons also got into the house via the cavernous chimneys 'que le gros pigeons y entrent comme dans un moulin'; her two maids are getting married and leaving in November and December.

From the Rector, Exeter College, Oxford - Hears from Professor Rudler that they are not doing so well; enjoyed reading 'Creation and Evolution' and has written a review in the 'Times Literary Supplement'; he is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and very busy.

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio (Corse) - Worries about her health and urges her to take care of herself; writes of his arrangements to go to Cannelle; will write to M. [Adrien?] Maisonneuve; reflects on her busy year; is writing to thank M. Rudler for a favour.

18 Bradmore Rd, Oxford - Congratulates the Frazers.