No. 30 of 'Journal des débats'.
Ambassade de France à Londres - Would be happy to host Comte et Comtesse Jean de Pange [while they visit London; has ordered a copy of 'Totemism and Exogamy'.
12 Howard Place, St Andrews [Dictated] - Thanks him for his letter from Paris, and reacts to the news in it: their visits to Brussels, Strasbourg, and Paris; Lady Frazer's illness; de Pange's amusing story of how Joffre and Foch were considered birds of ill omen on their inspection tours; the reception of the Renan Society. He is interested to hear of the Société for the translation of Greek and Latin texts; congratulates Frazer on the Anthropological Lectureship at Trinity, his Presidency of that section, and on his F.R.S.; is glad to hear the Apollodorus is in the proof stage, and agrees with him about Pliny.
Accompanied by a cutting of an obituary of Ramsay by John Harrower of 'The Aberdeen Free Press' of 23 March 1921 (Item 114); and by the envelope, with Frazer's note, 'G. G. Ramsay, 7th January 1921 (his last letter to me) J. G. F.'
35 cuttings of articles in which Frazer is mentioned personally or in which his books are mentioned as a source for a discussion of local customs and folklore, from England, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and India; they include two copies of an article, 'Portrait of a Scholar' by R. A. Downie in the 'Glasgow Evening News' of 20 Apr. 1932 (Item 28/117); Jean de Pange's article mentioning Frazer, 'Le peuple anglo-français' in the 'Journal de Genève' of 6 Dec. 1936 (Item 28/123); 2 copies of Erle Cox's review of 'Aftermath' in an article headed 'Man's Beginnings' in 'The Australasian' of 9 Jan. 1937 (Item 28/125); and Reginald Pound's description of Lady Frazer in his article 'Headline People' in Manchester's 'Sunday Chronicle' dated 15 Aug. 1937 (Item 28/141); as well as manuscript notes in Lady Frazer's hand accompanying an article about Frazer insisting on paying a railway company for past freight charges for a heavy trunk of books in an article headed 'Sir James Frazer's "Conscience Money"' from an unidentified newspaper (Item 28/111).