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19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Thanks him for the biography, found it most interesting; takes issue with the idea that 'the one abiding cause ... is ... the pursuit of knowledge or truth': quotes Plato and Browning, thinks that 'learning at its noblest is after all only one line of approximation ... to the character of God', and quotes Timaeus 29e.

10 King's Parade, Cambridge. Dated 5th January 1915 - Is glad to hear they have good news of Norman [Roscoe]; Lilly is better but not strong; he has been reading, mentions Donald Frazer's [recte Fraser's] 'Winning a Primitive People' and Sarah [recte Sarat] Chandra Roy's 'The Orāons of Chōtā Nāgpur'; asks what books he has on the religions of India so that he can advise; walked with A. B. Cooke [Cook]; is not convinced by Rendel Harris's paper on Apollo as an apple-god.

Albemarle Club - Congratulates Cook on his 'Zeus: a Study in Ancient Religion', admires his style and lucidity of argument, approves his decision to avoid questions of ethnology, informs him that he has recanted his position of Zeus as the god of the oak.

24 Abercromby Square, London - Discusses etymology of 'viribius' and Cook's theory that the leaves are verbena. Tells Cook that he is moving back to Cambridge and is reading the Old Testament in Hebrew.

Trinity College - Praises Cook's work and asks him to dine in hall on Invitation Night.

Trinity College - Asks Cook to tea to discuss his review of the second edition of 'The Golden Bough'.

Trinity College - Thanks Cook [for his critical review of the second edition of 'The Golden Bough'], asks if he would look over his revised theory, is forwarding two letters from Baldwin Spencer on the question of the Australian Daramulum [not present] and one from Miss Burne, editor of 'Folk-lore' relating to the Murra-murra among the Dieri [not present].

Brick Court, Middle Temple, London E.C. Dated 11th February 1915 - Addresses the issue between Hartland and [John] Roscoe as 'one of degree than of principle' concerning whether to accept 'savage tradition'; has finished the index of GB, and is working on 'The Belief in Immortality' vol. II, and a volume on Folklore in the Old Testament; his wife has written 'La Maison aux Pananceux'; notes Cambridge is doing well, with [A. B.] Cook's 'Zeus' and [W. H. R.] Rivers' two big vols. on Melanesian society.

Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum - Encloses a letter of introduction from A. B. Cook [now found in box 1, item 122]; Mattingly and Robinson have found a coin with a portrait of Diana Nemorensis, featuring the same helmet as one taken out of Lake Nemi; there is one denarius that may show the battle of old and new kings; they would like to send Frazer the article when finished.

Letter about an article Gow has written about "Syrinx" and whether it was written by Theocritus, with a transcript of A. B. Cook's letter to Henry Jackson about the poem.

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.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 6th Feb., 1915 - Thanks him for the Addison 'Essays', admires the Preface particularly; does not remember predicting the war, but to the contrary believing his friend Adolf Deissmann in Berlin who worked hard for peace; it is well to have work during these times: 'you may imagine what sort of feelings we have when the Germans talk about torpedoing transport ships. We have no idea yet when our boy may be aboard one'; admires [A. B.] Cook's 'Zeus'; saw a review of Lady Frazer's story ['La maison aux Panonceaux'?] in the 'Athenaeum'.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 20.5.11 - Thanks him for the book ['Taboo and the Perils of the Soul'] which will go on a 25' long shelf of Frazer; will be coming to Cambridge to stay with A. B. Cook, and hopes to see him.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 2.11.07 - Thanks him for the book, will be in Cambridge, but fears he won't have time to see him; discusses the 'Bundle of Life'; was told of a custom of young boys ringing bells at Halloween, wonders if he would connect it to the arrival of a ghost; hopes he will write a commendation for A. B. Cook to take the Greek Chair at Manchester; thanks him for the anthropological questions, will distribute them.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 11.11.05 - Has been reading 'Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship' and makes a few suggestions and additions, concerning throwing stones at a grave to keep the ghost down, some articles by S. I. Curtiss on Moslem saint-worship, trees and A. B. Cook's etymologies, the choice of the Refugium as the repeating day in a leap year, and quoting the leading case of Saul.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 7.1.03 - Is interested to hear he has converted [A. B.] Cook and discusses his etymologies: disagrees with those relating to 'quercus', thinks 'Virbius' is 'much more hopeful'.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 17.11.02 - Has been working hard on a volume of Grenfell and Hunt papyri; is enjoying Manchester, and describes his teaching there, has found an expert in Iranian matters in L. C. Casartelli, the head of a R. C. College there; his friend Williams Jackson called on him from London; in answer to his letter discusses sources for the study of the Avesta; was interested in [A. B.] Cook's paper ['The Golden Bough and the Rex Nemorensis'] and hopes he will reply; the 'Hibbert Journal' is promising; thinks [F. C.] Conybeare made a strong case.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge. Dated 2 May 1915 - Thanks him for the index volume [to the 'Golden Bough']; details some research he has done to make a guess that Diana's tree in Nemi was an oak-tree, with the help of Miss E. M. Douglas, Prof. P. J. Harding in Italy, and in consultation with Bosanquet and [James Hope] Moulton.

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.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge. Dated 16 December 1914 - Thanks him for his letter about his book ['Zeus; a Study in Ancient Religion'], is at work on volume 2, and there is some doubt whether it will be published, due to difficulty with the Press Syndics.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge. Dated 5 January 1914 - Returns the Roscoe Petition with his signature; congratulates him on the completion of the 'Golden Bough', admires it even as he has attacked it here and there.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge. Dated 17.viii.1908 - Makes an argument that perhaps there is a connection between 'Virbius' and 'verbena'.

Queens' College, Cambridge. Dated 3.iii.1908 - Thanks him for [William Roger?] Paton's letter, is grateful for his permission to use parts of it.

Queens' College, Cambridge. Dated 16.xi.1907 - Thanks him for his congratulatory note on becoming reader [in classical archaeology at Cambridge]; congratulates him on his appointment to Liverpool.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge. Dated 26.xi.1906 - Thanks him for the book ['Adonis, Attis, Osiris']; sends an excerpt from Probus about Adonis in Virgil.

Queens' College, Cambridge. Dated 4.xi.1905 - Thanks Frazer for the book ['Lectures on the Early History of Kingship'], for the mention in the preface; 'May the book have a worthy sale, and Andrew Lang starve in a garret!'

Queens' College, Cambridge. Dated 8.xi.1905 - Thanks him for the kind letter, declines an invitation.

Recluse Lodge, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. Dated 22.vii.1903 - A seven page letter, touching on oaks, sacred trees, and Zeus.