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FRAZ/17/54 · Item · 5 Apr. 1927
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Emmanuel College Lodge, Cambridge - He has been busy with the admission of undergraduates and it is plain the University is no longer able to cope with the numbers who wish to join; the dinner on Shrove Tuesday was a great success; it was a pity that Marett felt the need to attack Elliot Smith on such an occasion [his Frazer Lecture]; but Elliot Smith doesn't appear worried by it.

FRAZ/33/38-39 · Item · 7, 11 Jan. 1924
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Emmanuel College Lodge, Cambridge - Reports that Mr Wilson paid Roscoe [for the Frazer lecture] in December and that it may be possible to assimilate the Cambridge regulations to those of Oxford before it comes to the turn of Cambridge again.

Add. MS b/36/253 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 13.7.06 - Answers a question about etymology of Zeus Kappotas, and asks if he has asked [Peter] Giles. Finds [Lewis Richard] Farnell's review objectionable, hopes he will put him right; thanks him for writing to [Edward] Clodd, is busy with his seccond edition and other work.

Add. MS b/35/215 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

4 Parkside, Cambridge. Dated 19 January, 1903 - Relays a variety of [A. B.] Cook's etymological questions, such as 'Can "Egeria" be for "Aegeria" and that mean oak-goddess?'; Cook is supporting his etymologies with arguments drawn from mythology and archaeology, and is to write a paper for a classical periodical; he is in contact with Giles as well.