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Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Thanks her for the Downie biography; has given his car to the firemen and rarely leaves the house; was excited to learn that 'Drink to me only' is from Philostratus.

Newnham College, Cambridge - Is sending the two reprints [not present], Mr Bosanquet's and her own; admires [F. M.] Cornford's grasp of mythology and ritual; asks if there is a parallel to the cannibal feast of Tantalus in initiation rites; thinks his lecture clears up the dispute between Cook and Cornford and Ridgeway; discusses mythical ancestors vs Ridgeway's insistence on historical persons; hopes he is coming to Ridgeway's lecture on Monday at which 'he proposes to demolish both Mr Cornford & me!'.

2 Epsom College, Surrey - Questions Frazer and [F. M.] Cornford's theory of the origin of the Olympic Games, and discusses related rites.

Robin Ghyll, Langdale, Ambleside. - As he and Janet have 'hoped and expected' for a while, Mary has got engaged to John Moorman, who came to Hallington for a week in August; they met in June, at the Cornfords' musical parties in Cambridge. He left Cambridge this year, having stayed after his degree to train as a clergyman, and is now a curate in Leeds; he studied under [George Gordon] Coulton, who 'thinks highly of him'. He is 'liberal-minded', and George has discussed religion and history with him 'with much agreement and no feeling of barrier'. Moorman is also a 'fine walker' and is 'small but wiry'; his father was Professor of English at Leeds, and his mother is 'much respected in academic circles', and matron of a University hall in Leeds; their closest family friend is [Arthur] Grant, recently retired from the History Professorship there, a 'first-rate man'. Moorman's 'most intimate older and younger friends are Bishop Wyld [sic: Herbert Wild, Bishop of Newcastle], who conducted George and Bob's parents' funerals, and his son [John?]; in fact his 'whole entourage and atmosphere is about equally academic and clerical'. Thinks he will suit Mary very well, though 'not many people would', so he and Janet are much pleased.

20 pp. diary kept from 10 Dec. 1900 to 28 Feb. 1901 listing J. G. and Lilly Frazer's movements in Rome: places visited, and people seen, including [Giacomo] Boni, Wickham Steed and Madame [Clémence] Rose, Professor and Mrs [William] James, R. A. Neil, and A. E. Shipley. J. G. Frazer makes notes from a meeting on 16 Jan. with Miss Roma Lister, who gathered Italian folklore from peasants, and mentions her colleague C. G. Leland. On 19 Jan. he makes notes from a meeting with Dr [F. H.?] Burton-Brown, who lived amongst the Naga tribes in Assam. On 31 Jan. he describes an expedition to Nemi. On 27 Feb. he leaves Rome for Perugia. At the back of the volume are 2 1/2 pages of a bibliography of anthropological works, and two page list of 'Books Lent' from 1894-1905, to F. M Cornford, W. Ridgeway, A. B. Cook, W. H. D. Rouse, Miss [Aelfrida?] Tillyard, S. A. Cook, A. A. Bevan, and Prof. C. Bendall. This is followed by a short list of 'Ovid. Books to be Kept, Sept. 1928'.

16 Madingley Road, Cambridge; Burrows Hill, Comshall, Surrey; Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Four letters concerning the published address on the foundation of the Frazer Lectureship, written by A. E. Housman, and arrangements to publish Frazer's address of thanks.

Dined with M R James who is bored of the Vice-Chancellorship, argument between Garrett and Fitzgerald when climbing, "wild Welsh Tory" at the Union, Magpie and Stump, Robert Law "a capital fellow though he belongs to a damned Trades Union", Alf Noyes had a heated debate with Charles Waldstein, Nevile Butler developing into a good soccer player, Temperley a poor lecturer, Simpson good in matter but bad in delivery, Political Science "a shocking hard subject", Cornford "a positive danger to the public".

Conduit Head, Madingley Road. description of John Cornford's first period in Spain, JC unable to fulfill the ordinance for the Earl of Derby's Studentship.

Conduit Head, Madingley Road. FMC has heard from Michael Straight of John Cornford's death.

[Conduit Head, Madingley Road]. Some of John Cornford's communist friends wish to write a memoir of John Cornford, asks J R M Butler to recommend someone to write about JC's academic work.

[Conduit Head, Madingley Road]. Asks J R M Butler if he still has a letter from John Cornford thanking the history staff at Trinity, FMC wishes to see it included in the memoir of him.

K[ing's] C[ollege] C[ambridge]. - Asks if Bessie could come for lunch on Wednesday: the Cornfords may be coming for tea and he would prefer to see her alone. Charlie [Sanger's] death is 'a blow'. Asks her to tell Bob 'I never had his Blue Trowers, either the book or the real object'.

2, Cheyne Gardens. - Mr [Francis?] Cornford wants them to put him up on Saturday night, so she will not be able to get to Bessie until Sunday morning; will take the half ten train 'that dawdles [her] down to Dorking by 12.5' and asks Bessie to order her a cab; George and the [Sunday] Trampers will arrive for tea, as arranged. Can stay until Monday afternoon. Says in a postscript that the book [George's "England Under The Stuarts"?] looks 'jolly'.

Trinity College stories gathered by McTaggart from Henry Jackson and others, numbered and arranged by date from 1896 to 1922. Following the main grouping of stories are light verses related to College matters by James Clerk Maxwell, J. P. Postgate, F. M. Cornford, Kennedy, and J. K. Stephen, and a cutting of a poem about William Whewell by [Tom Taylor?]; printed obituaries of William Hepworth Thompson, a letter from James Mayo dated 20 Jan. 1905, and two letters from Henry Jackson dated 8-9 Oct. 1879.

[10?] Madingley Road - Sends her an address [the address on the occasion of the foundation of the Frazer Lectureship?], which he is also sending to Frazer.

West Runton House, West Runton, Norfolk - Has not answered her letter as there is whooping cough and 8 children in the house; Mr Loeb's name is not on the list [on the address on the foundation of the Frazer lectures?] because he wished to be anonymous, he will send her the rest of the replies later; he can do nothing to help the Oxford lecture; congratulates them on completing "Adonis".

Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Thanks her for the photograph, and for the information about the lectures, is sorry to hear about Frazer's eyes.

Trinity Coll. Camb. - In advance of a meeting at which he, Frazer, [William] Ridgeway, and [A. B.] Cook will be present, discusses his theory of the origin of the Olympic Games, mentioning that he had not heard of [Lewis] Farnell's suggestion.

Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Comments on a proof of 'The Dying God', particularly the tradition of young men receiving lashes on Pelops' tomb; is not convinced Pelops ever lived. Shares the information that their parlourmaid has suggested getting a haircut at the new moon.

Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Thanks her for the gift of [the 'Fasti'?]; sums up an agreement they reached about creating [a pamphlet?] with excerpts from the 'Fasti'; does not need to have his name on the title page, it is the service one scholar does for another.

Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Informs him that the subscriptions for the Fund in his honour were affected by the war, and they have not raised enough money to fund a travelling studentship for field work, but have raised enough for a travelling lectureship to be shared between Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Liverpool.

Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Thanks them for the volume of selections [S. G. Owen's 'Greece and Rome: a selection from the works of Sir James George Frazer'?]; his wife has been ill and is slowly recovering.

La Haule Manor, Jersey - Asks if Frazer is proposing to edit [the Frazer Lectures volume], thinks Mr Cornford should decide whether a lecture be included or not; asks if copyright permission has been obtained from all the authors; would like it to appear despite being critical [of Elliot Smith]; gave a Jane Harrison lecture at Cambridge in which he was critical of her work and Professor Haddon praised the lecture for taking Harrison's work seriously enough to criticise; would like the matter referred to an arbitrator.

Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Thanks her for the flowers and Australasian volume from the 'Anthologia Anthropologica'; is working on cosmogony, which has its root in the Divine King of 'The Golden Bough'.

Newnham College, Cambridge. Dated Saturday (18 March 1911) - Thanks him for his letter on the question of cannibalism and conciliation rites; it will be useful to learn [John] Roscoe's views; believes that gods are developed out of a collective emotion; is interested to read the possible relation between initiation ceremonies and reincarnation; feels ignorant compared to Frazer; is showing her letter to Mr Cornford as he shares the same position.

Royal Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone – Would like to see [Francis Macdonald] Cornford for herself before a discussion with J. G. [about the proposed Frazer Fund]; her ill health and J. G.'s desire to return to Cambridge, where they were refused rooms by the Council, her sense that Cambridge does not appreciate J. G., her ideas as to possible positions for J. G., asks that Lewis advise, and not quote her to J. G.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated Nov. 20 and 27.10.11 - Questions Frazer and [F. M.] Cornford's theory of the origin of the Olympic Games, and discusses related rites.

Conduit Head. Character of John Smith.

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).