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An accompanying note to a [book? article?].

Tells Sidgwick that it is very good of him 'to attend to [his] paradoxes.' Admits that his 'Psychics' are very unpopular, 'but Tyler [E. B. Tylor?] brought them in, and left them hanging in the air, and did little to the civilised side of them.' Informs him that he will find [fire walls] in his Modern Mythology. Reports that he has published more in the Westminster Gazette, and that the New Zealand [observations] 'will appear at length in the proceedings of their scientific society.' States that the performances 'were well tested, and quite unexplained.' Claims to know no competent anthropologist 'in the line of beliefs' apart from Frazer and Tyler. The latter has not been well and his wife has not allowed him Lang's book, '"for fear it might injure the brain".' Believes that [Sir Alfred?] Lyall has read it, and thinks that 'part II holds water'. Would correct the points in relation to 'S.P.R.' [the Society for Psychical Research] and hopes Myers had kept him straight.' States that he may 'correct in the French.' Refers to a comment made by Sidgwick on Hume and claims that he [Hume] 'certainly advised absolute disregard of evidence'.

A catalogue of printed and manuscript material in an unidentified hand, consisting of slips of paper pasted on to sheets of paper loosely tied into paper covers. The entries cover anthropological subjects and the latest dated item is from 1913.

19, Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Is sorry to hear of the enforced retreat to Selly Oak; attended James George Frazer's 87th birthday party and comments on his health and on his wife Lilly, thinks James a better Christian than himself; describes wartime Cambridge, with bombs falling on the outskirts of town, the constant sirens, with a story about the reaction of the Rev. Henry Carter during a service in the [Emmanuel] Congregational Church; the Library treasures scattered, Professors [David Winton?] Thomas and [Percy Henry?] Winfield, as members of the Home Guard spending nights on the top of its tower; describes his contributions to an exhibition at Peterhouse Lodge, 'Fifty Centuries of Greek Art'; also describes a 'Hellenistic gem' he acquired from a cement-worker in Shepreth which bears an inscription he traces to Adam of Newmarket.

Thanks her for the casket presented to Sir James Frazer at the time he was awarded the Freedom of Glasgow and notes her instructions about the engraving to be done by Messrs. Edward & Sons.

Draft of a story about a little girl showing her city cousin the custom of cutting the rainbow to stop the rain from returning, with a summary of the anthropological questions it raises: 'we would respectfully submit them to J. G. Frazer, author of "The Golden Bough"'. Written in Lilly Frazer's hand with a later note indicating that it was written as an article for an unidentified paper.

On the verso of the pages are incomplete drafts of articles on Heacham and on dating churches.

Four notebooks, numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, accompanied by loose pages relating to or detached from the notebooks and an envelope labelled ‘Analytical tables compiled by T. K. Penniman’ (found in notebook 1). The notebooks are done in duplicate with an original page followed by a carbon copy, and are identified by labels on the front cover: '1. Index. B1-272'. '2. Index. B272-409; E1-153, see 4'. '4. Index . E153-350'. '5. Index. E350-403, G1-[G61]'. Each index contains a note indicating that 'entries treating the dead' are marked in a distinctive colour. The 14 loose pages relate to notebooks 1, 2, and 4.

These indexes are probably created from three of Frazer's research notebooks which were given to the British Library in 1939, referred to as 'Unclassified' note-books: anthropological extracts and notes, mainly from printed sources'.

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).

B/485 includes correspondence from Sir J.G. Frazer and Lady Frazer re Wyse Bequest and their visit to Cambridge.

Includes 8pp offprint of lecture by Sir J.G. Frazer titled 'The Scope and Method of Mental Anthropology', Science Progress, April 1922.

Written on the death of John Maxwell Image.

15 letters and two cards, accompanied by a clipping of Frazer's obituary.

Item 35: Dated 15 Dec. [no year]. Thanks him for his testimonial, and while the Aberdeen position is filled, he will endeavour to deserve the kind words in his future work.
Item 36: 23 June 1913 Congratulates him on the Oxford degree, will be sending a new and enlarged ‘Psyche’ and Part VI of the new G.B. to show that he has not been squandering his time or the trust placed in him.
Item 37: 25 June 1914 Thanks him for the congratulations; it is hard to be finished with the work, like the parting of an old friend; was grieved at the death of W. Aldis Wright, happy in his successor.
Item 38: 1 July 1908 Congratulates him on his new honour; asks if he has heard anything more of the Lorimer Fison business; visiting William Wyse.
Item 39: Letter to Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, 26 Feb 1922. Thanks him for the copy of ‘Totemism’ which had belonged to his father; his father’s death has left a ‘sad blank’ at Trinity; wonders if his father had a chance to see his ‘Apollodorus’.
Item 40: 25 Oct 1887 Replies to Jackson’s criticisms and disagrees about the line between consummation and subsequent intercourse, and discusses the limitation of the effusion of blood as well, the value of virginity, and related matters.
Item 41: 27 Oct 1887 more of the same discussion.
Item 42: 9 Nov 1887 sends a copy of ‘Totemism’, sends a theory.
Item 43: 9 Nov 1887 a moment’s discussion with Robertson Smith has shown him the error in a theory.
Item 44: 1 May 1888 Refers to evidence from Samuel Gason on the prohibition of sexual intercourse.
Item 45: 22 Aug 1888 a long letter; discusses the comparison of metaphysics and superstition; asks him to save the letter for Robertson Smith.
Item 46: 24 Aug 1888 thanks him for being a sounding board for his theories, mentions that Robertson Smith is a stern utilitarian whom he does not dare to mention ghosts and spirits to.
Item 47: 18 Apr 1904 Asks his advice about Manchester.
Item 48: 2 May 1904 gives his reason for declining Manchester, encloses a letter from Baldwin Spencer criticising his circumcision theory.
Item marked as 'with 35-48': Undated Thanks him for the letter and cutting, is interested in the different motives and train of thought that influences men in different stages of culture; thinks McLennan treated savages as if they were influenced only by what we consider rational motives
Item marked as 'with 35-48': Undated, Friday asks him to put his last letter in the fire and that he should stick to facts, mentions an East Indian tradition that people leave their souls at home when they go out to fight.
Item marked as 'with 35-48': Card, undated about rules armies have about hair or feces falling into enemy hands where they can make magic with it
Item marked as 'with 35-48': Card undated refers to an article in Anthropological Journal discussing totem clans and rules for burying them in a certain direction.
Item marked as 'with 35-48': The Times obituary for Frazer

Conduit Head - met J G Frazer who told her "The Pickwick Papers" was the greatest book in the world:

Includes testimonials and printed material. Some letters have explicatory notes by Florence Image. Almost 40 letters from Henry Jackson. Several letters from or relating to: H. M. Butler (some to Florence Image), A. V. Verrall, W. Aldis Wright, W. H. Thompson, Duncan Crookes Tovey and other members of his family, J. G. Frazer, J. N. Dalton, and J. W. L. Glaisher; for other correspondents see names below. Some letters by Image himself to various correspondents, and printed material

Random House Inc. - Have decided to publish a one-volume abridgement of 'The Golden Bough', could not come to an agreement with Macmillan, offers Malinowski the editorship, and $500 to Frazer for his authorization of the project.

Consists of a number of loose sheets on which comments are made by Wittgenstein relating to the abridged edition of the Golden Bough. The numbers in the manuscript appear to relate to pages in this edition. A typescript copy by Rush Rhees accompanies the manuscript.

Shares his memories of Tony Shaffer, including his gratitude when PS offered Tony a way out of their work filming advertisements, recalls spending six months reading the entire 15 vols. of 'The Golden Bough' as part of the research for their last collaboration, 'The Wicker Man'; remembers when Tony left during the shoot PS and Paul [Giovanni] stepped in, and is pleased Paul is getting good reviews for the music, which is too often ignored because it fits seamlessly into the plot; understands Tony didn't like the film, and that Nick Rogue [recte Roeg?] would have made a more interesting film of it; thinks it the one product of Hardy Shaffer that seemed worthwhile.

"Hochried", Murnau/Staffelsee - Is pleased Frazer will soon complete the 'Fasti' and admires Lady Frazer's translation of excerpts from 'The Golden Bough'. This page of a letter was sent to the Frazers in a letter from T. E. Page to Lady Frazer dated 13 Jan. 1926 [FRAZ/3/37]

Fair copy in an unidentified hand of a verse drama, with a title page with the title only. The play was printed privately in Edinburgh in 1874 under the title 'Borgia: a tragedy, and other poems' by Thomas Brown, of Waterhaughs and Lanfine.