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Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge - Is part of a group of people who are trying to bring pressure to bear on the German government, which has begun reviewing dossiers of academics and dismissing them. Sends a document for Frazer to sign which will be presented to the German government and which will be signed by the Vice Chancellor, the Master of Trinity, and Lord Rutherford; they are also asking Eddington, Hopkins, Pope, Housman, and he will sign himself.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Has considered Lady Frazer's suggestion that Sir James' pension be increased, finds they are unable to do this according to College Statutes; suggests using the William Wyse Studentship Fund to make a grant of £100 for three years to pay for secretarial assistance.

Printed letter enclosing a copy of a circular letter from Lord Ullswater, the Chairman of the University of Cambridge Commissioners, and announcing a series of meetings on Saturday afternoons during the present term relating to the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Congratulates his appointment to the Savilian Chair of Geometry in Oxford, regrets his departure. As for [Samuel?] Pollard, he thinks he and the Senior Tutor will be able to act now "and get indemnity afterward".

Thanks him for his good wishes on becoming Master of Trinity.

Trinity Lodge - Has been hoping to see him in person but as he has not he writes his congratulations; finds the award thoroughly well-deserved, and is pleased for the Trinity: 'I do not think any College ever had a day like we had on New Years day when our Fellows got two O.M.'s and a Knighthood'. Accompanied by the envelope.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated April 8th 1920 - At a meeting of the Committee of the Expedition [William] Mackie offered another £1000 for the fund, which had been invested in War Loans which had lost value; is planning on writing a fuller report on the expedition for 'Man'; have moved back into the Middle Temple flat, Lilly still has a racking cough; spent a day in Cambridge and saw various friends (W. J. Lewis, J. W. Capstick, and J. J. Thomson, but not Henry Jackson), and has been offered an honorary degree; has had a friendly letter from [William] Ridgeway; has a copy of 'Totemism and Taboo' by 'a German or Austrian psychologist [Sigmund Freud], who borrows most of his facts from me', 'he seems to have a great vogue with some people'.

Jackson's letter, 19 Aug. 1919, to the Master [J. J. Thompson] is typed out after the printed birthday wishes and list of fellows, as is an extract of a letter from A. E. Housman to [Reginald St. John] Parry, 3 Jan. 1920: 'Not if the stipend were £150, 000 instead of £150 would I be Public Orator... The letter to Jackson last year laid waste three whole mornings...'

Holmleigh, West Road, Cambridge [on mourning paper] - Is sure the Council will agree to Frazer's proposal to dedicate a book ['Folk-lore in the Old Testament'] to the College; expects to move into the Lodge the next day.

Trinity Lodge - The Council has agreed to Frazer's proposal to dedicate a book ['Folk-lore in the Old Testament'] to the College.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Thanks Frazer for 'The Gorgon's Head', enjoyed 'Sir Roger de Coverley'.

Thanks him for his congratulations on being made Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Thanks the Frazers for their congratulations for George's Nobel Prize, assures them that he had nothing to do with it; George has had a serious illness and 3 major operations over the last two years.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - The Thomsons meant to send birthday greetings on time but mistook the day; is sending some chocolate (Cadbury's and Meltis); her husband asks if J. G. would like to borrow a Trollope novel from his library.

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio (Corse) - Thanks her for her happy letter; tells her it was Campana who was Consul général in London when they went to lunch with M. de Fleuriau; suggests she photograph the drawing of Sir James and send it to her friends; rejoices in the success of the books 'Pasha the Pom' and the first volume of the 'Anthologia Anthropologica'; is happy she let him send his reminiscences to [Sir Joseph John?] Thomson and to [Robert Ranulph?] Marett; has sent Catherine [Giamarchi] her note.

Includes testimonials and printed material. Some letters have explicatory notes by Florence Image. Almost 40 letters from Henry Jackson. Several letters from or relating to: H. M. Butler (some to Florence Image), A. V. Verrall, W. Aldis Wright, W. H. Thompson, Duncan Crookes Tovey and other members of his family, J. G. Frazer, J. N. Dalton, and J. W. L. Glaisher; for other correspondents see names below. Some letters by Image himself to various correspondents, and printed material

Concerning his gift of his set of Doves Press publications for the Library.

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse - Is confused why she is in Harrogate, when he thought her in Stamford; received a note of thanks from J. J. Thomson for his note congratulating him on his son's Nobel prize. Reacts to what she says of the maitre d'hotel at the Crown. He would have liked to hear the Admiral [?] talk on rowing and on Scotland fifty years before; his sister would have preferred to live at the beginning of the Victorian age, and Catherine [Giamarchi, a niece] is the opposite.

Trinity College Library, Cambridge - Encloses a formal acknowledgment of the gift of Frazer's book ['Totemica'?, gift acknowledgment not enclosed]; the Master [Thomson] wishes to express his thanks but has not written owing to the amount of work occasioned by Lord Rutherford's death.

Suggesting that he assist Prince Albert in his studies.

Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Very sorry not to see Bessie yesterday, and for the reason; hope the move will 'not be long held up by her lumbago'. [Mary's] 'was a very delightful wedding, thoroughly "Trinity"': the Master signed the register, [Reginald?] Parry was there, and A. E. Housman 'honoured the chapel with his presence'. There were about two hundred guests; Mary looked 'very dignified and beautiful'; the reception at home went well and Bessie's present of 'the Italian bowl' was admired; Aunt Annie [Philips] 'was in great form'. The newly-weds are in Italy now until 18 October. Very glad Bob likes his book ["England Under Queen Anne: Blenheim" - always pays 'special attention' to his judgments - and that he likes Mary's ["William the Third and the defence of Holland, 1672-4"]. He himself has a 'great admiration' for it; Mary has had letters 'highly praising it' from Sapitze [?] and Sir John Fortescue, who are 'the two people most capable of judging' the political and military aspects respectively.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Apologises for the omission of Frazer's 'Fasti' from the list of books received by the Library; the Librarian is away; supposes that because he is not a classicist the Librarian did not show it to him. Accompanied by the envelope.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Thanks him for the photographs [of the Ovid mss. gathered while working on the 'Fasti'?]. Accompanied by the envelope.

Holmleigh, West Road, Cambridge. Dated November 2, 1905 - Thanks him for 'Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship'.