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Pembroke College, Cambridge - Is glad to hear he is not leaving Cambridge, is sorry Frazer is afraid he will regret the decision; plans to meet for lunch on the 14th.

Accompanied by the envelope.

Argues that the grounds on which opposition to the appointment of a Syndicate to consider Degrees in Science are based 'are in each case untenable.' States that the Master of Downing [Alexander Hill] and three other resident members of the Senate base their opposition 'on a narrow interpretation of the term "Science", which they understand to mean "Natural Science" only to the exclusion of Mathematics.' Claims that this is an 'unwarranted interpretation'.

Refers also to the assertion by the Master of Clare [Edward Atkinson] and eleven other resident members of the Senate that the matter in hand raises again the issue decided in the previous October. Refers to five of these eleven men - Swete, Mayor, Mollison, Neil and Bateson - who also signed the circular issued at that time by the Committee formed to oppose the proposal to remove the obligation to study both classical languages as a prerequisite for sitting the Previous Examination. Argues that the matter decided at that time was relevant to Degrees in Arts only. Adds that Professor Browne, who signed the above-mentioned circular, authorises Sidgwick to state that he always understood that the question of Degrees in Science was left open. Concludes that it is 'unreasonable to contend that the issue now raised is one on which the opinion of the Senate has been already given.'

Pembroke College, Cambridge. Dated May 23, 1901 - Weil [recte R. A. Neil] sent on Frazer's question; while he does not do comparative grammar, he thinks the derivation of Naman from Ameretat is wrong; went to see [Anthony Ashley] Bevan and he referred him to the 'Encyclopaedia Biblica' that says Naman is Numman; distrusts [H.] Winckler, and thinks [F. C.] Andreas 'is capable of turning out a bad book in the realm of later Persian history'; suggests he try Prof. Cowell.

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'.

63 Curzon Street, Mayfair - Sends two books as a gift; it was a pleasure to meet the Frazers, who brought back 'delightful and fragrant' memories of Peterhouse and the great kindness of Lord Kelvin; mentions [Robert Alexander?] Neil and [William James?] Chrystal, who were friends of his.

[Incomplete letter, first sheet only.] Old Aberdeen - Thinks that the story of Phrygian kings being shut up comes from the story of Midas wearing a cap over his ears; hopes to get away in July and August to visit libraries in the south and 'hit off [Robertson] Smith in Cambridge'.

Pembroke College, Cambridge - Thanks him for Mrs Frazer's two books, is improving his French with them.

Pembroke College, Cambridge. Dated 28 July, 1898 - Corrects him as to the oracle quoted in Pausanias i.20.7.

Pembroke College, Cambridge. Dated May, 1901 - Accepts an invitation to lunch.

Pembroke College, Cambridge - Discusses the etymology of 'άρειος [from which the name of the Areopagus is derived].

Pembroke College, Cambridge - Thanks him for Mrs Frazer's two books, is improving his French with them.

Pemb. Coll. - Corrects him as to the oracle quoted in Pausanias i.20.7.

Pembroke College, Cambridge - Accepts an invitation to lunch.

5 Park Terrace, Cambridge. Dated June 30/01 - There are conflicting accounts of the Nemi festival; mentions again the Serpent Festival in the Spring; was astonished and grieved to hear of [Robert] Neil's departure.

The Lodge, Pembroke College, Cambridge - Would like a subscription to the bibliography for the College Library in memory of Robert Alexander Neil, who was a classical and Sanscrit scholar, not a Persian scholar like Edward Granville Browne, also a friend of Frazer's; would also like a subscription for himself; is sorry to hear of Frazer's eyesight troubles.