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42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Thanks him for the book ['Totemism'?] ; wishes he could provide a small map of the world showing the extent to which totemism is known to prevail. Signed in pencil. The accompanying envelope is docketed 'on Totemism' in Frazer's hand.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Thanks him for 'Totemism and Exogamy'; thanks to Lilly Frazer and Baron von Hügel, brother of the Cambridge anthropologist, he has an 'Acoustica'[?] to help him hear, and encloses a pamphlet about it [not present].

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Admires Frazer's 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' and suggests that 'The Sin of a Census' could be lengthened and sent to the Statistical Society.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Thanks him for ['Adonis, Attis, Osiris']; mentions Theodore Bent's memoir on Santorin in connection with St John and the Revelations; notes that [Eugen] Sandow would be pleased with how close his name was to Sandan [of Tarsus].

Xerox photocopies of over 240 letters, many of them of originals housed in other institutions. The letters are written by Frazer to multiple recipients with a few exceptions: eight are written by Lilly Frazer (to Miss Buckley, Sir Edmund Gosse, Bronisław Malinowski, and W. H. D. Rouse); one is from Henry Jackson to Frazer and five more are from others to others (two from Macmillan & Co. to Hermann Diels, one from Sir Francis Galton to Sir Clements Markham forwarding a letter from Frazer, one unrelated letter from John Sampson to Francis Jenkinson, and one memo from Otto Stapf to Sir David Prain). Five letters include covering letters from the institutions providing the copies. In addition, there are copies of a typescript draft of Frazer's article 'Our Debt to France', the draft of an address on the founding of the Frazer lectureships, and a translation of an article.

Recipients, with the number of letters present if more than five: Aksel Andersson, Terence Armstrong, Spencer Baird, Andrew Bennett, Arthur Bigge (Lord Stamfordham), Miss Buckley (of the Loeb Classical Library), Sir Ernest Budge, John Bullbrook, Francis Burkitt, Edward Clodd, Francis Cornford (16 letters), Otto Crusius, Sir Edwin Deller (6 letters), Hermann Diels (10 letters), Samson Eitrem, S. J. Evis, Jesse Fewkes, Douglas Freshfield, Sir Francis Galton (14 letters), Ernest Gardner, Charles-Marie Garnier (6 letters), Sir Edmund Gosse (42 letters), A. C. Haddon, Sir William Hardy (6 letters), Carl Lehmann-Haupt, C. W. Hobley, A. W. Howitt (7 letters), Mary Howitt, Henry Jackson, Francis Jenkinson (8 letters), Oskar Kallas, Sir Arthur Keith, William F. J. Knight, John Mackay, Bronisław Malinowski (9 letters), William Maxwell, A. G. W. Murray, G. G. A. Murray, Sir John Myres, Theodor Nöldeke, Karl Pearson, Sir David Prain (8 letters), Edward Rapson, A. G. Ross, Sir William Rothenstein, W. H. D. Rouse, Gustave Rudler, Charles Edward Sayle, Solomon Schechter (7 letters), Douglas Sladen, William Thalbitzer, Sir J. J. Thomson (21 letters), Sir D'Arcy Thompson, Hermann Usener, Sir Emery Walker, and Alfred Rayney Waller (6 letters).

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Answers Frazer's letter inquiring about the fear of death, suggests that Meadows Taylor had a phrase about the fear of death being a European maladay; recollects Lord Palmerston stating that Chinese men would offer themselves for execution if their funeral rites were paid for and a good dinner offered; cites 'Julius Caesar'; is heading to Rome and Sicily in November.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Has the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' and admires it; suggests a method be adopted to show the geographical distribution of the facts it relates to, either the small maps used by the Natural History Museum or the decimal system of the Geographical Classification about to be adopted by the Royal Society; comments on the general mourning occasioned by the death of Queen Victoria.

Cambridge. Suggests that he can afford to invest £2000 a year, will accept Galton's choice of watch, interest in the Oxford and Cambridge Mission.

Harrow. Asks Galton to get him a gold watch, to preach at Cambridge.

Cambridge. Pleased that "Johnson" will be joining them.

125 Dorset Terrace. Arrangements for visit to the Galtons'

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated Nov. 10 [1910?] - Thanks him for the book ['Totemism'?] ; wishes he could provide a small map of the world showing the extent to which totemism is known to prevail.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated May 22, 1910 - Thanks him for 'Totemism and Exogamy'; thanks to Lilly Frazer and that of Baron von Hügel, brother of the Cambridge anthropologist, he has an 'Acoustica'[?] to help him hear, and encloses a pamphlet about it [not present].

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated November 21, 1907 - Admires Frazer's 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' and suggests that 'The Sin of a Census' could be lengthened and sent to the Statistical Society.

Quedley, Haslemere. Dated September 27, 1907 - Admires the little book of 'Questions [on the Customs, Beliefs, and Languages of Savages']; finds it curious how many pleasures of life continue unimpaired, despite his age of 85 1/2; fears [E. B.] Tylor must regret his inability to 'do justice to his own large collections, by finishing his projected work on the origins of religion'.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated Sept. 27, 1906 - Thanks him for ['Adonis, Attis, Osiris']; mentions Theodore Bent's memoir on Santorin in connection with St John and the Revelations; notes that [Eugen] Sandow would be pleased with how close his name was to Sandan [of Tarsus].

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated October 18, 1902 - Answering Frazer's letter inquiring about the fear of death, suggests that Meadows Taylor had a phrase about the fear of death being a European maladay; recollects Lord Palmerston stating that Chinese men would offer themselves for execution if their funeral rites were paid for and a good dinner offered; cites 'Julius Caesar'; is heading to Rome and Sicily in November.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated January 24, 1901 - Has the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' and admires it; suggests a method be adopted to show the geographical distribution of the facts it relates to, either the small maps used by the Natural History Museum or the decimal system of the Geographical Classification about to be adopted by the Royal Society; comments on the general mourning occasioned by the death of Queen Victoria.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated June 7, 1899 - Congratulates him on the honorary doctorate from Oxford, is sorry he did not have time to speak to the Frazers when in Cambridge.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated June 14, 1895 - Has very much enjoyed reading 'Passages [of the Bible]'; wonder if he knows a passage in [John] Selden's 'Table Talk' that proves how much the English have been moulded by Biblical phraseology.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Congratulates him on the honorary doctorate from Oxford, is sorry he did not have time to speak to the Frazers when in Cambridge.

Cambridge. Galton's army plans, working mens college, H M Butler taking some pupils in classics, believes that the abolition of private tuition would be disastrous.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Has very much enjoyed reading 'Passages [of the Bible]'; wonder if he knows a passage in [John] Selden's 'Table Talk' that proves how much the English have been moulded by Biblical phraseology.