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Trinity College, Cambridge - Three letters (dated 31 May and 3 June 1886 and 20 Apr. 1887) about the Scottish girls' game of hop-scotch, known as 'Peever' or 'Pal lal', with drawings of 'beds'. The letter of 20 Apr. encloses a letter sent to James's sister Christina from Eleanor Caw Jr [?] containing a 'count', and sending Christmas greetings.

Rowmore House - Is glad to hear that the Park side accommodation promises to be comfortable; glad to have the reviews of ['Adonis, Attis, Osiris'], Miss [Isabella?] Anderson has been reading the book and the reviews; is glad he likes the Skinners; wonders who will be head of Westminster College, hopes it won't be Ian Maclaren [John Watson], has no patience with him or Mr [Samuel Rutherford?] Crockett, who 'degrade themselves from the high office to write rubbishy tales'; she was afraid at one time to read James' book, and did not read all of it, but now she is not afraid, and thinks that if he continues to dig, that he 'will find Him in it all'; Mrs Marryat has his book and wishes to come see her; Evelyn Ireland is ill with measles; Mr [Walter Edward?] Ireland is due to give a lecture on his visit to Italy; has been reading [Sir Walter Scott's] 'The Pirate' and 'The Fortunes of Nigel'.

An incomplete draft of a 12 page letter lacking a salutation and closing. She writes of the general strike of 1926, and its effect of stopping work on the Ovid 'Fasti'; J. G. continues on unperturbed; wanted to serve his country and serve as a special constable despite his age and the fact that he'd be leaving her alone, deaf, in her 'cell'; decided he would run the elevator there to free up two or three men; hopes to arrive in Rouen on 30 May; J. G. opened all the windows in the new house to avoid mold and gave everyone bronchitis except himself; tells stories of his absence of mind, including an incident in which the stove caused a fire, and she walked in the room to find him absorbed in his work and his eyebrows, hair and beard smoking, and to put it out he had to plunge his head in the washbasin; tells a story of J. G. returning money from a scholarship to travel in Greece because he had not published, but when he published his Pausanias, no one thought of giving it back; describes how J. G.'s parents were well off but that he let his sisters have the family money, and when his sister [Christina Frazer] died, he didn't get the money but it instead went to the married sister [Isabella 'Tot' Steggall] at a time when J. G. and Lilly were raising her two children (Charles and Lilly) on £200 a year ('Il n'a jamais en l'idée que moi et mes enfants nous ayons besoin d'argent!'); J. G. turned down the Gifford Lectures in 1899 because his father disapproved; mentions the Bourdelle bust, and Bourdelle's comment that J. G. 'posait comme un dieu'; believes [Émile] Legouis wants to talk to her about the [a?] Shakespeare book, he was to have dined with them, but could not.

Cilgwyn, Newcastle Emlyn, S. Wales - Does not know him, recognised his photograph in the paper because of his resemblance to his father, her aunt was a neighbour of his family in Aberdeen, reminisces about visits there, asks to be remembered to Christina, if she is still alive and who knew her as Maggie Crawford, and congratulates him. With an envelope addressed to 'Sir James Frazer, eldest son of D. Frazer Esqr of Frazer & Green, Buchanan St, Glasgow N.B.'

Vicarage, Old Appleby, Westmorland. Dated June 3, 1912 - Thanks him for ['Passages from the Bible']; would have valued Tiny's copy too [Christina McCall Frazer's copy]; has good news of all the Aunts, Bertha is much better, and Dulcy and Freddie Vriernander[?] have gone to Norway leaving little Frances with her, a great joy to both of them.

Rowmore House, Garelochhead. Dated 15th Oct. [1889] - Writes family news, of the illnesses of their parents [Katherine and Daniel], is glad to hear he was in London with Mr [John Henry?] Middleton, and asks for a photo of him, is glad to hear his book goes well, thinks Macmillan and Black are both good choices for a publisher; refers to [J. G. Frazer's question about the harvest maiden] sent [John] Macfarlan and encloses his reply [transcribed], and says they should ask Archie [Leitch?] and Mary as well; Ninian has a cold; shares news of the movements of friends Mrs Ireland, Annie, Miss Brown and the Dr; Mr Marrick of Cummock was at tea, just back from the Holy Land.

The card from John Macfarlan is from Faslane, Gareloch, Dumbartonshire. Dated Monday [14th Oct./89] - discusses the tradition of the harvest maiden, quoting Archie Leitch, on the Maiden, Dunbartonshire farms about sixty years ago.

26 Bisham Gardens, Highgate N. Dated 22nd Nov. 1911 - Thanks him for the letter with the information for her brother-in-law; didn't realise Tiny (Christina Frazer) was ill, and her death is a shock.

Hotel Alwin, Gloucester Road, South Kensington [on mourning stationery] - Congratulates him on receiving the [Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur]; reminisces on their youth and her friend Tiny [Christina McCall Frazer]; describes her husband's [Charles'] sudden death.

Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Dated 10 March 1911 - Thanks him for ['The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings']; writes of her visit to 'Tiney' [Christina McCall Frazer] and found her better than she expected, hopes the doctors have it wrong, is glad she doesn't know of their suspicions.