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Cloisters, Windsor Castle - Thanks him for 'Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies' and admires it; mentions that he has read Warde Fowler's Life, and says Fowler calls Frazer 'the indefatigable one' in a letter.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated July 18th 1906 - Is unwell, but tries to answer Frazer's question about the marriage of Roman deities.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated July, 19th 1906 - A 4 pp. letter, discussing whether Varro's book ('Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum libri XLI') is a good source for the belief that Romans believed in divine marriage, and discussing other sources for the belief; mentions [Georg] Wissowa as an authority on Roman religion.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated July 20 1906 - Makes plans to meet; notes that he looked up [Ludwig] Preller on the point [of divine marriage of Roman deities] and found he concluded the same as later 'specialists'; enclosed are 4 pp. of transcribed 'Notes on Lecture VII'.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated July 30th 1906 - Offers to send some notes on the Roman part of his lectures on Kingship; hopes Frazer will go on working out his views on the old Italian kings, finds the archaeological evidence has been supporting the older views.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated August 3rd 1906 - Makes arrangements to meet; finds that Roman things are more 'ticklish' than any other antiquities, 'owing to the technical nature of Roman institutions and law'.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated Oct. 1 1906 - Thanks him for 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris' and comments on it, noting he hasn't mentioned his ideas about Tarch and the Anatolian origin of the Etruscans; and thinks he attributes 'too much to the idea of the individual's salvation as disintegrating the ancient State life'.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated October 28 1906 - Points out that the theory of the Anatolian origin of the Etruscans seems to be on the rise; has been reading a work published by C. Thulin; there must have been a strange jumble of theology in Etruria, borrowing from Greece, Egypt, and the Umbrians.

Lincoln College, Oxford. Dated October 29th 1907 - Has been reading his contribution to the [E. B.] Tylor book, and thinking about the murderer smeared with turmeric who had to live in a hut, and that there is something behind the making of booths of branches; quotes Gregory about the British Christian converts in Bede.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated October 25, 1907 - Mentions a passage in Tibullus about hut-making and asks if he has any ideas relating to the practice; was pleased to meet Mrs Frazer; may come back to Cambridge to compare open spaces, is the Curator of the Oxford Park.

Oxford. Dated November 14, 1907 - Is glad to hear [A. B.] Cook was elected to the readership in classical archaeology[?]; is sorry to hear he is leaving Cambridge; was lamenting over Myres's loss with Gardner; hopes to bring the Frazers back someday.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated February 27, 1908 - Thanks him for the kind letter on his appointment to the Gifford lectureship; assures him that he does not take criticism amiss; invites him to Lincoln for the Congress in September.

Kingham. Dated June 20, 1911 - Will be happy to see him, and hear him give a Gifford lecture; is trying to do a little botany now; was visited by S. T. Irwin, who admires his writing style.

Kingham. Dated September 22 1912 - Was pleased by his comment on Mozart's wistfulness, a word that had not occurred to him to use; has written a short article on the Oak and lightning for the 'Archiv für Religionswissenschaft'; read his Cowper book with pleasure, was pleased to see reference to his great-grandfather [John] Bacon the sculptor.

Kingham. Dated July 10, 1914 - Congratulates him on the knighthood; is interested to hear of their move to Brick Court, at the Middle Temple; is recovering from an illness, has never produced anything of note in the summer except 'Tales of the Birds'.

Kingham. Dated July 23, 1914 - Tells a story about failing memory, consulting an article and finding his own initials at the end of it; if [George Macmillan] told him he was complaining, he was only curious, after reading Zachariae's article in the 'Zeitschrift für Volkskunde'; has shared the cost of Lord Morley's portrait with [George Macmillan]; thought Morley looked old and sad at the last dinner. With a typescript note identifying G. M.

Kingham. Dated February 8th 1917 - Announces his sister's death on 8 January; describes life without her; sees Frazer has written a preface to a book on the southern Slavs; hopes America is by now at war with Germany and that another year will bring a close to the war.

Kingham, Chipping Norton. Dated Nov. 7th 1917 - Knows Frazer is working on ['Folk-Lore in the Old Testament'], and sends a passage from Servius about Juturna, native sacred water and Aeneas.

Dark green bound volume of 44 cuttings, primarily reviews, of the first edition of 'The Golden Bough'; includes reviews by Isaac Taylor in 'The Academy' (tipped on to p. 5), John G. Bourke in 'The American Anthropologist' (verso of p. 11), and W. Warde Fowler in 'The Classical Review' (tipped on to p. 13).

Kingham, Oxford - Thanks him for sending him 'Sir Roger de Coverley'; proposes a trip to Cambridge in the summer with his sisters; father told him he ought to go to Sidney Sussex, following an ancestor, but went to Lincoln instead, a good place that helped him grow up and where he met Scotchmen for the first time. Accompanied by the envelope.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Informs Butler that Warde Fowler has found a mistranslation of Pliny in a central argument in 'The Golden Bough', and Frazer suggests the fellowship committee should be informed and his fellowship re-evaluated in light of the new information. Accompanied by the envelope and photographs of the letter, mounted on two sheets.

Kingham, Chipping Norton - Thanks her for the Jupiter tree at Fontainebleau, doesn't think it looks like an oak; thinks J.G.F. should enjoy himself with literature when he retires, is happy he is reading Addison and enjoying Sir Roger; in his view certain fictional characters are real and alive: 'Can't we find a biologist to show us why that is?'

Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells - Regrets he cannot attend the lecture on Feb. 24, his wife is unwell; hopes the lecture will be printed; looks forward to reading it and profiting from its lessons, as he did when Warde Fowler corrected his mistranslation of 'sexta luna' in Pliny.