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54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse - He is pleased things are going well for her; is working with maps of Corsica, and some have Dutch text he cannot read (Jan. 19); he thanks her for various things she has sent in the post: the 'Times', with its coverage of Edward VIII (Jan. 28), an issue of 'Punch', with an image [?] of Canon [Alexander] Nairne at Windsor (3 Feb.) and pictures for Martine [Giamarchi]. He has sent a parcel of responses to the questionnaire to Varagnac; is happy they had a good evening with Wickham Steed (16 Feb.).

Lansdowne House 7, Holland Park, W.11. - Subscribes to the bibliography in his name and that of Clémence Rose; is sorry to hear of 'Jimmy's' eye trouble and suggests he write 'an elixir' of all his works now that he can't stop and hunt references and make extracts from documents.

The Times, Vienna - Has been busy with work, referencing Vienna, the Italian Ambassador, and the Bulgarian emissaries who have come to plead 'for approval of bomb throwing'; has not found a settlement with P.H.S. [Printing House Square?]; has seen Meredith of Constable's and agreed a contract [for 'The Hapsburg Monarchy'?], has written 33,000 words so far; was 'too scared to reply' to the letter suggesting he review 'The Golden Bough', suggests J. G. write the review himself, after which Lilly should remove the 'over-modesty' and he would 'Steedify' it. Thanks Lilly for sending on Sir J. C. Browne's letter; is yearning for a catastrophe to relieve the pressure of current politics, thinks it may happen before the year is out; suggests they should all write a play together: he'll supply the material, Lilly the 'esprit, not to say wickedness', J. G. the artistic unity, and Madame Rose the dramatic technique.

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'.

Lansdowne House, Holland Park, W.11 - Congratulates Frazer; likes the O.M. far better than the knighthood as he could 'have a chance of giving distinction to your new order - a thing you couldn't possibly do to the old gang'; asks him to tell 'Froggy' she is on his conscience, 'and she's still too heavy to make that comfortable', returned home to find Madame Rose in bed with flu.

Park View Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London, S.W. - Has returned to London, will soon be in a house, the book ['The Hapsburg Monarchy'], is due out next week, he will give the first one to J. G.; encloses a review of one of Frazer's books in the 'Débats' [not present].

Printing House Square, The Times. Monday, 1 a.m. - Encloses a proof [now at FRAZ/21/4] of the Special Correspondent's message from Kiev [where the trial of Mendel Beilis was taking place] and tells Frazer he has used a quote from the 'Scapegoat' to clarify Frazer's position, and asks that he telegraph if he has anything to add.

Lansdowne House 7, Holland Park - Thanks him for the sympathy letter on the death of Madame Rose.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 23-24 November 1920 - On the 23rd, he writes he has heard that a long account of the expedition was published in 'The Daily Mail' and is sorry to hear that such a 'low and vulgar paper' should have the first report of a scientific expedition, 'even Sir Peter Mackie is probably not a good judge as to the proper mode of publishing the results'. On the 24th he says he has written [Sir Peter Mackie] that a full report should be deferred until after the dinner; Lilly has written their friend [Wickham Steed] of 'The Times' about it.

27 Pentland Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 14.7.20 - Thanks him for introducing him to Professors Nicholson and Whittacker [Sir Edmund Whittaker?]; doesn't know if [Wickham] Steed published his article in the 'Times'; is reading 'Sir Roger de Coverley' with pleasure.

40 cuttings, most of them relating to 'The Fear of the Dead', both before publication, with headlines such as 'New Book a Mystery' and 'Writer on Savages But Has Never Seen One', and reviews of the book, including one illustrated article from the 'Illustrated London News' of 25 Apr. 1936 and a review by R. R. Marett in 'The Quarterly Review' July 1936. There are also cuttings about Frazer dated 1936 unrelated to the book, a review by Wickham Steed of 'Totemism & Exogamy' in 'The Observer' of 16 Feb. 1936, and a typed page of extracts from T. K. Penniman's 'A Hundred Years of Anthropology'.

The Times, Roma. Dated 15.1.1900 - Thanks him for the [second edition of] 'The Golden Bough'.

The Times, Roma. Dated 4.III.1901 - Is sorry he has had to cut short his holiday; has been busy with the riots at Palermo and a requiem mass to be given for heretics and Queen Victoria especially; reacts to Frazer's idea of Steed writing a book about the Vatican; discusses a book by a friend [Henry B. Brewster], 'L'ame païenne' in which he says the Pagan idea of a special deity for each phenomenon corresponds most closely to the state of human experience.

The Times, Roma. Dated Sunday, 16.vi.1901 - Apologises for not writing, Madame Rose has not had time; have been driven by [E. B.?] work, shan't be in England before August 15, leave them out of household calculations, they shall 'bohemianize' when they come.

The Times, Vienna. 27, 31.viii.1904 - Encloses a cutting from 'Pester Lloyd' [not transcribed, is with the original letter and headed 'Leichenschändung als Mittel gegen die Dürre']; the photos were never sent off; 'Bankers' Money' [by J. Shield Nicholson] came safely; asks what he thought of [Henry] Balfour's address at the British Association, 'he always seems to me to hold a brief for dishonest doubt'.

Lansdown House. Dated 24.xii.1913 - Thanks him for 'Balder the Beautiful'; it helps him to remember 'that even latter-day English can be strong, supple and unaffected'.

Acland House, 40 Broad Street, Oxford - Thanks her for the book, is 'athletic enough to use the 2 volume edition, as I punch a ball every morning'; is glad to hear vol. 3 of 'The Fear of the Dead' is completed; asks if they have thought of Wickham Steed's suggestion of 'The Masked Lizard' as a title for 'Totemism & Exogamy'.

Eynsham Hall, Witney, Oxon. - Is no longer in London regularly, not until his book on 'The Press' is finished; is glad to hear that Frazer's mind and memory are still keen.

Lansdowne House 7, Holland Park, W. - Thanks Frazer for the books [the 'Fasti']; admires them, hopes to write something not wholly unworthy about them.

Lansdowne House 7, Holland Park, W. - Asks if he should order 'Totemism' or if she should, would like to pay full price; the only opening for reviewing at the moment is occasional requests from the 'Observer'; glad to find 'Jimmy's mind' so fresh on Saturday, offers to take them out for a car ride.

50 rue Truffaut, Paris 17e - Asks where they are, and if they are going to the commemoration of the centenary of Sir Walter at the Sorbonne in January; thanks her for the copies of the 'Times Literary Supplement'; condemns the Germans and the imbecile Hoover; wishes they could [appoint?] Wickham Steed as minister of Foreign Affairs in London, Paris, and Washington simultaneously; poor Herriot is caught up in financial German-American ties.

IV Schwindgasse 9, Vienna. Dated 20 July 1906 and Sept. 1 1905 - Sends a cheque Madame Rose received from her editor Fabian Ware; has had the enclosed letter from Sir Edward Goschen for a year; asked their Peking correspondent Dr [George Ernest] Morrison about Chinese substitutions; was told about a goat sacrifice in the Ardèche; shown examples of sympathetic magic in the cathedral at Lyons, points out a printer's error; no holiday because the situation in Russia and there is too uncertain. The enclosed letter, from Sir Edward Goschen to Wickham Steed and dated Sept. 1, 1905 states that Steed has mixed up his stories, that he never heard Steed's story before, but has one of his own of a Chinese man committing suicide in revenge against someone, an example of their contempt for death; can't believe what is happening re: the Japanese and Saghalien [Sakhalin Island], given the sacrifices the Japanese made.

IV Schwindgasse 9, Vienna - Sends a cheque Madame Rose received from her editor Fabian Ware; has had the enclosed letter from Sir Edward Goschen for a year; asked their Peking correspondent Dr [George Ernest] Morrison about Chinese substitutions; was told about a goat sacrifice in the Ardèche; shown examples of sympathetic magic in the cathedral at Lyons, points out a printer's error; no holiday because the situation in Russia and there is too uncertain. The enclosed letter, from Sir Edward Goschen to Wickham Steed dated Sept. 1, 1905 states that Steed has mixed up his stories, that he never heard Steed's story before, but has one of his own of a Chinese man committing suicide in revenge against someone, an example of their contempt for death; can't believe what is happening re: the Japanese and Saghalien [Sakhalin Island], given the sacrifices the Japanese made.

Lansdowne House 7, Holland Park, W.11. - Is unable to accept her invitation, and suggests other dates, encloses his review of 'Totemism', which hasn't appeared yet in the "Observer" and thinks he may be persona non grata for his opposition to Mussolini's 'Abyssinian adventure'.

Eynsham Hall, Witney, Oxon. - 'Please read the enclosed to J. G.': doesn't know where to get funding for a large book, perhaps the Carnegie or Rockefeller Foundations in the United States; his own experience trying to raise money to help stranded German professors has been disheartening.

Eynsham Hall, Witney, Oxon. - Thanks him for the information about the first use of shorthand; will be in London for several weeks in the spring and hopes to see them.

Proof of the Special Correspondent's message from Kiev [where the trial of Mendel Beilis was taking place], originally enclosed in a letter from Wickham Steed to J. G. Frazer 10 Nov. 1913 [FRAZ/3/121], and 'The Times' in which it appeared. Accompanied by an envelope.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 2nd Dec. 1913 - Thanks him belatedly for 'The Dying God'; is sorry the George Square scheme didn't work, but does think London better than Edinburgh; knows [Wickham] Steed well by name and thinks he will be a 'great and beneficent force' on the staff of 'The Times'; would like to meet him somewhere in Italy in the spring, and asks if they have been to the Naples-Amalfi region or to Sicily; congratulations to Mrs Frazer on her new role as a grandmother and on the new book ['Victor et Victorine'?]; Emy and Fred are in Paris, and he has begun a series of articles in the Scotsman.

34A Via Porta Pinciana, The Times, Roma - Thanks him for the [second edition of] 'The Golden Bough'.

34A Via Porta Pinciana, The Times, Roma - Is sorry he has had to cut short his holiday; has been busy with the riots at Palermo and a requiem mass to be given for heretics and Queen Victoria especially; reacts to Frazer's idea of Steed writing a book about the Vatican; discusses a book by a friend [Henry B. Brewster], 'L'ame païenne' in which he says the Pagan idea of a special deity for each phenomenon corresponds most closely to the state of human experience.