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1 Brick Court, Temple E.C. Dated 11th March 1916 - Is glad the book reached him, and that [George Foot?] Moore's book is helpful; is working on 'Folk-Lore in the Bible'; is interested to hear about the Feltwell living; his nephew [John Steggall] has been appointed to a ship, and Lilly's nephew [Cecil Dodd?] has a commission in a line regiment; have good accounts of Lilly's children in Stockholm [Charles] and Paris [Lilly].

55 Rue de Varenne, VIIe - Thanks her for taking the time to send her letter to Girton's Director of Studies in Modern Languages, would be happy to have it arranged for October; all goes well there since the English naval victories; admires how things have been handled in Norway; knows she must be worried about her son-in-law [recte son] in Sweden, as all accounts are that it will be invaded soon; went to a meeting of the Société du Folklore, where Varagnac made an interesting speech.

British Legation, Stockholm. Dated 4th June, 1922 - Apologises for not acknowledging letters; have made friends with artistic and musical people in Stockholm; deeply regrets unkind words during their visit in 1916; thanks his mother for the cheques.

(British Legation, Stockholm) Mälarhöjden - Thanks her for the cheque, used for the quarterly payment of his flat, thanks also for the leaflets, found the story of the big fish that swamped the Mauretania very funny; is sorry to hear about her troubles; has been on holiday with Violet and his housekeeper, who is efficient but depressingly half-educated; is thinking of selling the flat; is being pressed to collaborate in a new edition of the Swedish-English school dictionary, but it is so bad he has sent it back, revised only in part.

British Legation, Stockholm - Congratulates Frazer; the Ambassador Sir Arthur Grant Duff was interested to hear that Frazer is his stepfather.

Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nürenbergerstrasse 65 II, Berlin W.50 - Gives a history of Mannhardt's archives and states that if the work of Dr Bielenstein is approved, they will publish; mentions Frazer's stepson [Grenville] Grove.

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.

British Legation, Stockholm - Apologises for not acknowledging letters; have made friends with artistic and musical people in Stockholm; deeply regrets unkind words during their visit in 1916; thanks his mother [Lilly Frazer] for the cheques.

Ashburton, Steyning, Sussex - Asks for Grenville Grove's permanent address, is leaving him a legacy in his will; asks for advice on a French tutor for the daughter of a friend.

Ashburton, Steyning, Sussex - Thanks her for her letter about Grenville; is happy to hear he is at the British Legation; is sorry to hear his wife is crippled; wonders about advancement but has no contacts at the Foreign Office now; admires her industry.

Ashburton, Steyning, Sx - Her move to a 'bandbox' at the Temple sounds charming; good to be away from Cambridge damp; is sorry to hear about Grenville, wonders what sum she has in mind to help out, isn't in a position to help now, sold the house in Dorset, selling the one in Sussex due to his wife's health.

Ashburton, Steyning, Sussex - Is afraid Grenville 'was always a hopeless dreamer & fitted for an academic life', his talents have been wasted; sent him £10, will do so quarterly.

Durham - Asks after Mr and Miss Grove; the former was planning to enter the English church at last report; gives advice on libraries in Lausanne, Siena, Milan, and Florence; Rome, when it doesn't have typhoid or small pox is a healthy place; know Rome well, have spent much time there, but would like to return to see the excavations at the Forum.

c/o Capt Gage, Faygate House, Faygate, Sussex - Hopes Frazer's enforced inactivity will do him good; wonders how much Grenville makes per annum, might contribute to his son's education.

Dymocks Manor, Ditchling - Is glad to hear good news about Frazer's eye operation; Grenville's letter is childish, complaining about his chief and threatening to leave his job.