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University College, Cardiff. Dated July 6/98 - Has been reading Frazer's account of Delphi and tells a story of his own encounter with Lysander's epigram, which had been shown and translated to a French couple as a special favour, and how he went to see the stone for himself despite the objections of the French, asks some questions about his interpretation of the Greek. In a postscript, he mentions he suspected 'poor [G. B.] Grundy's Plataea' and hears '[W. J.] Woodhouse is slaughtering him too'.

Three volumes containing notes taken in Athens in March and April, 1890, and a journal of a tour in the Peloponnese and Central Greece from 21 April to 24 May, 1890. In the journal, Frazer makes frequent references to Baedeker and to Pausanias.

The first volume contains 52 pp. of notes made on statuary, architecture, and pottery while visiting the Central Museum in Athens, and from J. H. Middleton's notes on the Acropolis in Athens and on 'Temple Management'. This is followed by the start of the tour journal (126 pp.) dating from 21 April to 9 May, in which he travels via steamer from Piraeus to Nauplia, and from there on horseback with his dragoman Weal, to Tsipiana (now Nestani), to Mantinea, Tripolitza, Arachova, and Sparta, where he makes notes from the museum at Sparta and meets [Robert Weir] Schultz and [Sidney Howard] Barnsley. From Sparta he travels through the Langada gorge to Lada, where he meets Aksel Andersson and Henrik Schück, who are interested in folklore; to Mt. Ithome and Mt. Eva, and to Phigalia, where he describes the cave of the Black or Phigalian Demeter; to the temple [of Apollo] in Bassae; to Megalopolis, where he meets archaeologists [William] Loring, [William John] Woodhouse, and [R. A. H.] Bickford-Smith; to Andritsaena and Krestana and to Olympia, where he makes extensive notes. The volume contains two pen-and-ink sketch maps of Sparta, one of Thebes, and pencil sketches of temples, gates, and objects.

The second volume consists of 35 pp., reconstructing his diary of May 10-16, after he lost his notebook at Chaeronea on the 17th. It describes a tour from Olympia to St. Luke's monastery, to Dhivri, the monastery of Hagia Lavra at Anastásova, to Megaspeleon, to Aegion, to Delphi, where he makes extensive notes, to Arachova, and St. Luke's monastery.

The third volume consists of 31 pp. of his tour from May 17-24, in which he travels from St. Luke's to Chaeronea, to Livadia, Thespiae, Plataea, Thebes, Eleutherae and Eleusis to Athens. Once at Athens, he makes notes of an excursion to Oropus and Mt Helicon with [Arthur George] Bather, and a trip to the monastery of Mendeli on Mt Pentelicus, and walking back to Athens, arriving before Bather, who took the train.

170 Walton Street, Oxford - Thanks him for his answer to his question about rivers in Messenia; is standing for the Craven Fellowship and has written a book on Messenian history and topography; describes his six weeks there: poor food, insects, and utter loneliness; returns to the rivers, which he thinks misidentified due to a mistranslation, asks for Frazer's help in understanding a passage in Pausanias.

Sedburgh, Yorkshire - Thanks him for his answer to his letter, asks Frazer to tell him what he can about the Balyra and the Elektra; discusses the boundary between Messenia and Lakonia in detail and disagrees with Frazer's interpretation; will be in Oxford for the rest of the year but doesn't know what he will be doing after that.

Apologises for the slowness of his reply, has been coaching men for Greats, and the letters he writes to Frazer are not the work of a spare five minutes; discusses the border of Messenia in detail, and the rivers there, his theory that Sparta from the first held the territory; also discusses an image of Zeus of Ithome, and the date of the Ageladas.

170 Walton Street, Oxford. Dated October 31, 1890 - Thanks him for his answer to his question about rivers in Messenia; is standing for the Craven Fellowship and has written a book on Messenian history and topography; describes his six weeks there: poor food, insects, and utter loneliness; returns to the rivers, which he thinks misidentified due to a mistranslation, asks for Frazer's help in understanding a passage in Pausanias.

Sedbergh, Yorkshire. Dated March 25, 1891 - Thanks him for his answer to his letter, asks Frazer to tell him what he can about the Balyra and the Elektra; discusses the boundary between Messenia and Lakonia in detail and disagrees with Frazer's interpretation; will be in Oxford for the rest of the year but doesn't know what he will be doing after that.

Dated May 17th, 1891 - Apologises for the slowness of his reply, has been coaching men for Greats, and the letters he writes to Frazer are not the work of a spare five minutes; discusses the border of Messenia in detail, and the rivers there, his theory that Sparta from the first held the territory; also discusses an image of Zeus of Ithome, and the date of the Ageladas.