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Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks Bentwich for the biography of Solomon Schechter, whom he remembers for his wit and wisdom; asks for news of his daughter Ruth.

1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, E.C. Dated 15th September 1914 - Encloses copies of his printed anthropological questions for his Quaker students; returns a paper and says he doesn't find anything to make of it other than that the writer admired blond hair; he saw the [Solomon] Schechters who were looking well; is ashamed of his previous letter in which he said he thought there would be very little of the British Empire left at the end of the war, did not think the end would be so speedy and decisive as it now promises to be; has raised much of the money required for the publication of Roscoe's book ['The Northern Bantu'].

1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, E.C. Dated September 3rd, 1914 - Is glad to hear he is lecturing missionaries on anthropology, and offers more copies of his printed anthropological questions; the [Solomon] Schechters are in London, having come there from Holland.

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).

Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany, Sentinel House, Southampton Row, London, W.C.1. - He will look for letters between [Solomon] Schechter and Sir James, and will let Frank [Schechter] know their wishes about the books of Sir James and will do all he can himself.

Aldourie, Bournemouth - Thanks him for the GB; thanks him for the letter of Nov. 18, reporting the success of his efforts on behalf of Spencer and Gillen, and for the letter of Dec. 6 acknowledging his pamphlet on the Eumedian Ethics, written in order to pay a compliment to [Franz] Susemihl, and mentioning that [Solomon] Schechter would be visiting Bournemouth, but he missed him; saw him once or twice during Robertson Smith's illness, but did not become acquainted, and will accept his introduction; is glad to hear Mrs Frazer's health has improved in Rome, and the discoveries in the Forum are most interesting, especially the confirmation of his theory about the perpetual fire, and asks about the current thinking on the location of the Temple of Vesta; his friend H. M. Plowden has gone 'completely off his head' according to F. Brandt; College news: the dividend is £200, the M.C. [Henry Montagu Butler] is in better health by living quietly, a committee has been appointed to consider the College statutes; in the university [William] Ridgeway has made an uncalled for attack on Walter Leaf, a pity as not everyone knows what Ridgeway is capable of; his wife is 'still immovable in bed.

4 Cwmdonkin Terrace, Uplands, Swansea - Has heard via Norman Bentwich that Frazer was asking for news of her; believes her father Solomon Schechter should never have left Cambridge as he had friends who valued him there; summarises her life in South Africa, left her first husband, remarried and is living in Wales, and if acceptable would like to see the Frazers in July.

Fen Ditton, Cambridge - Thanks him for [the second edition of 'The Golden Bough']; is glad to hear from Mrs Frazer how he fares in foreign lands; has been put on the Caius Governing Body, and then the University Council, thinks it would be helpful as the next four years will be important for the advancement of anthropology there, 'I know that you will consider me a jackass for going into University business', [Francis?] Jenkinson and [M. R.?] James both voted against him, 'to keep me from wasting my time'; is about to publish volume one of his book, going ahead even though new discoveries are made during every spring's diggings; A. J. Evans gave a lecture on Cnossus; [John?] Capstick is flourishing and the Fellowship dividend has gone up; [Henry?] Jackson is much better; [Arthur?] Verrall still poorly; [Solomon?] Schechter is better; encloses a document sent him by C. H. Read [not present]; [Herbert Hope?] Risley is a splendid fellow; Ridgeway is pushing for a new museum of anthropology, has an old Caius friend, wealthy, childless, interested in archaeology, who will help and will work the City Companies for him.

468 Riverside Drive, New York. Dated January 19th, 1917 - Thanks them for their condolence note, describes Solomon's funeral and tombstone, the plans to publish his remaining literary works, the help of Alexander Marse [recte Marx] in going through the papers and in writing a necrology, in which he quotes from Frazer's condolence letter, discusses other work of Solomon's that is not in a condition to be published.

Beaumont House, Poole Road, Bournemouth. Dated 23 December 1910 - Thanks him for the new 'Golden Bough', admires how it sets one thinking about one's own subjects; is recovering from his illness; finds [John Addington] Symonds's book on the Renaissance very poor.

2 Rock Road, Cambridge. Dated 8 and 12 May, 1898 - In the letter of 8 May, he is unable to look at the books he wished to consult; Ruthy and Amy have the chicken pox; gives a reference to the Purim Doll, and the Purim fire jumping tradition. In the letter of 12 May, [Abraham] Kuenen's 'Historisch-Kritische Einleitung in die Buc̈her des alten Testaments' contains references to the Purim question.

Villa Waldfried, Murnau A/ Staffelsee - Encloses the reply from Professor Bernard (now housed as FRAZ/29/7); Jenkins is a respectable publishing firm that could promote the sale of her books; she has heard of George Macmillan's 'final & flat refusal' to let the Loeb Classical Library have the Pausanias on any terms, he thinks it's 'disgusting of him' but chiefly regrets James' loss of revenue, will have to have a new translation made for the L.C.L.; asks if she has heard that Harvard has conferred an honorary Litt.D. on Professor Schechter.