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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].

22, North Side, Clapham Common, S.W. - Sympathy on the death of her daughter [Lilly Mary Grove]; he had not known her long but loved her as a daughter.

Hotel Lutetia, 43 Boulevard Raspail, Paris. Dated 16th. March 1919 - The death of Lilly's daughter [Lilly Grove] has been a heavy blow; wonders when he will leave on his expedition [to Uganda] and hopes he met with Sir David Prain.

Hotel Lutetia, 43 Bourlevard Raspail, Paris. Dated 26 March 1919 - Describes being called to Paris on the illness of his stepdaughter Lilly Mary Grove and her sudden death; in addition to seeing Sir David Prain, hopes he would see [Arthur] Hinks, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, who might be of good practical help; wonders how the preparations are going.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated April 10th. 1919 - Is pleased how things are turning out for the expedition [to Uganda]; has written to [Arthur] Hinks about the maps; has written to Denison Ross about [phonograph] records and a standard comparative vocabulary; will consult Macmillan about a new and improved edition of 'The Baganda'; as to the drugs, they don't think [Arthur] Keith is the person to apply to; will visit [Sir Peter] Mackie and thank him for his generosity; thinks his idea of a clerk is a good one; anticipates valuable results from the expedition.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 6 November 1919 - Writes in detail how he has handled the issue of free passes on the railways, etc. by contacting people at the Royal Society and the Colonial Office; recommends he contact [Arthur] Keith of the Royal Society in future; Lilly is still not recovered from the shock of losing her daughter [Lilly Mary Grove], discusses their travel plans; has finished Apollodorus; there are 5000 students at Cambridge, and a syndicate has been appointed to consider the admission of women to full membership of the University; in London they did not suffer from the railway strike.

Université de Paris, Faculté des Lettres - Was on the jury before whom Lilly Mary Grove defended her doctoral thesis on Robert Louis Stevenson and recommends her highly as a professor of French language and literature.

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple. Dated 11 April 1919 - He is not alone in his suggestion to write a book on Folklore in the New Testament, but would like to wait until a certain scholar in France has published; is working on other books at the moment; his wife's daughter [Lilly Grove] has died suddenly and unexpectedly.

The School World, Macmillan & Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street - They do not have room to publish her play; give permission for her to reprint 'Tel Maître -- tel Valet'; and will soon work with her daughter's [Lilly Grove's] article.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 15 December 1907 - Is glad he has arrived safely at Mombasa; has accepted the chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Liverpool, which has no salary but no responsibilities, plans to lecture on totemism; has a plan of promoting anthropological research from Liverpool, would like to fund an eighteen month expedition to Western Australia by [Baldwin] Spencer and [Francis] Gillen and would like to fund Roscoe so that he could give himself wholly to anthropological work in Central Africa; asks how long he is committed to the C.M.S., and thinks they have not kept faith with him; asks if he would work exclusively in anthropology, and for details on where and when he would work in Central Africa and for what money; his stepdaughter [Lilly Grove] is doing well at her school in Bristol as a French teacher and will join them for Christmas; hopes Mr [Geoffrey Francis?] Archer will send more notes on the Lake Rudolph tribes; [Alfred] Hollis, [C. W.] Hobley, and Lord Mountmorres (via Dr Richard Caton) have distributed a large number of anthropological questions.

26 Grove Park, Lodge Lane, Liverpool - Describes a theatre performance of a play she wrote, was compared to Molière; her visit to the Careys [Frank and Jessie?] was spoiled by ill children; house she's now in is luxurious; Aimée is particularly nice, sees a lot of Mrs Fletcher, Mrs Nisbet says her sister fell in love with him; Lilly [Grove] and Mr V. G. acted well; arrangements at the College were difficult as nothing had been done; hairdresser took an hour and a half, but all went well; no letters; hopes to return home 7 Jan. Accompanied by an unaddressed envelope with note in J. G. Frazer's hand, 'L. 18 Dec. 1904. Molière lecture at Liverpool'.

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.

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.

Paris [on mourning stationery] - Thanks him for 'Folk-lore in the Old Testament'; saw Miss Grove and her friend Miss Gauran and spoke of the great victory; despises Germany, the Kaiser, and Germans.