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14 Coates Gardens, Edinburgh, 12 - Is sorry to hear about Sir James' eyesight; cherishes fond recollections of Dr J. Sutherland Black; is enclosing a subscription for the bibliography; until her letter arrived they had not heard of her letter to Mr Buyers Black, who must have misunderstood her meaning.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 24 July 1919 - [William] Crabtree wrote a notice in the July number of the Journal of the African Society; writes about the illness of Lilly Frazer (a bad cold), [William] Ridgeway (recovering), Henry Jackson (diabetes), and Dr Black (whooping cough); the Peace Day celebrations were unremarkable and the miners are behaving badly.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 22 February 1923 - Thanks him for the proofs of the second volume; he and Lilly have not been entirely well; hopes to speak at the Renan centenary on the 28th; shall miss [Herbert Vaughan] Cox very much; saddened by the death of John Sutherland Black.

Aldeburgh - Thanks him for 'Selected Passages from his Works'; reminisces about Frazer meeting [Sir Alfred] Lyall, Ray Lankester, [Sir Frederick] Pollock and [James Allanson] Picton in 1905 when they rowed to Oxford; and a visit the Frazers paid in 1910 in company with [Thomas] Hardy 'and his present wife' [Florence], [John Bagnell] Bury, and Sutherland Black, and when he was summoned to town on Holman Hunt's death; the 'Literary Review' has a review of Paul Couchoud's book ['L'Énigme de Jésus'?] by Thomas Whittaker; quotes the Einstein limerick starting, 'There was a young lady named Bright'.

49 York Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W.1. Dated 27.2.23 - Encloses a letter from Madge Chrystal [transcribed] describing John Sutherland Black's final days; was shocked to hear of his death; interested to hear of Lady Frazer's translation [of 'Adonis'?].

Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Dated 23/6/12 - Thanks him for Cowper's 'Letters'; has not read Robertson Smith's 'Life' [by J. S. Black and G. W. Chrystal] in detail but thinks too much space is given to the heresy-hunting story.

Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Dated 29/3/16 - Was only in London for the day of the lecture and saw only Moncrieff and Dr Sutherland Black, will be back to see Mrs Holman Hunt at the weekend; glad to hear he is giving the Huxley Lecture, it was 'worth being born to have known him'; takes refuge from the awful war in the calm pages of great thinkers.

Aldeburgh. Dated (1918) - Thanks him for 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament', notices society has moved a long way from when Dean Milman was denounced for blasphemy; questions his conclusion in judging between Creation and Evolution, and asks why consensus of opinion matters vs consensus of fact; hope his facts on 'jus primae noctis' will prevent future references; hears from Moncrieff that Sutherland Black has lost an eye.

c/o Sir James Donaldson, Scores Park, St. Andrews N.B. [letter of 6 November 1912] and St. Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated 6 November 1912 and 15 January, 19, 27 March 1913 - Four letters relating to an application to the Carnegie Trust in America for funding of an expedition to Central Africa. In the first letter Frazer describes meeting Sir William McCormick at Dr Sutherland Black's house, and his idea of the application to the Carnegie Trust who 'have a difficulty in finding worth objects on which to expend the large sums at their disposal'; gives advice on how to write the application; is staying with Sir James Donaldson; mentions he has heard from M. W. H. Beech who wants to study the Swahili. The letter from January reports he is sending the application to McCormick. The letter of 19 March reports McCormick had forgotten his promise to send it to the Institution via the head of the Scottish Universities Trust Dr [John] Ross; is disappointed in [Henri] Junod's second volume; is glad the missionaries of the Society of Friends are to take up anthropology, and will send him more of his [printed] anthropological questions. The letter of 27 March reports that the application has failed; regrets their short-sightedness, hopes he will not be disappointed, wonders if [R. R.] Marett or [William] Ridgeway could do something; and sends the second volume of Junod's book.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh 25th Sept. 1894 - Is looking at ['Passages from the Bible'] and has suggestions; also asks if Macmillan hesitates to give him another chance.

3 Down Street, London W. Dated 20th March 1901 - Appreciates his point of view about the lectures, and sees it as a chance to gain disciples and get fresh stimulus from them, but said he would not criticise Frazer's decision.

Adam and Charles Black Publishers, Number 4, Soho Square, London W. Dated 1st April 1901 - Thanks him for his note, which will be printed, is showing it to [Thomas] Cheyne first; [Andrew] Lang is 'clearly greatly exercised' about G.B.2; he is glad to hear about plans for a G.B.3; has a letter from [Paul Wilhelm] Schmiedel, who writes that it is the time of his condemnation and that the refusal of his reason will come later; is glad [William] Ridgeway's first volume ['The Early Age of Greece'?] is about to appear.

9 Lauriston Rd. Wimbledon. Dated 14th Apr. 1901 - Would be delighted if he took the Manchester Chair of Comparative Religion, does not think that being a nonbeliever is a reason to decline it; would hear with disappointment if Rev Dr Robertson Nicol[l], Dr [John] Clifford or R[eginald] J. Campbell had taken the post; if it is laid down it must be a believer they will turn to the Orthodox Greek Church or a Roman Catholic and third High Church Anglicans; asks him to look at the April 'Hibbert' and tell him what he thinks of [Oliver] Lodge's article ['Suggestions towards the Re-interpretation of Christian Doctrine']; is migrating from Edinburgh but in or near London he has been frozen out, but does not repent his share in 'Encyclopaedia Biblica'.

Lauriston Cottage, Wimbledon Common. Dated 28th May, 1903 - Thanks him for his congratulations; liked what he saw of [Paul] Schmiedel last month; is asking him whether he can help with information on winterburning; describes his own experience with it; is hoping to see them in the summer.

9 Lauriston Road, Wimbledon. Dated 9th June, 1903 - Encloses a letter from [Paul] Schmiedel, whom he greatly enjoyed meeting. The enclosed letter is summarised as chiefly a bibliography of the Zurich custom of winterburning.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 1st Nov. 1905 - Thanks him for the copy of 'Kingship'; enjoyed his visit to Oxford, is still thinking of reviving Bretschneider in some modernised edition; visited [Hope W.] Hogg in Manchester at Victoria University, which seems prosperous; has a note from [Joseph Shield?] Nicholson asking him to dine to meet [John St Loe] Strachey who is going to contest the University seat; has been golfing on the Braid Hills course; will send back the Bretschneider books soon; has to address a 'Literary Society' on the subject of Jupiter and asks for early literary references.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 21st Oct. 1907 - Thanks him for the copy of 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' [in 'Anthropological Essays Presented to Edward Burnett Tylor']; he has enjoyed it and sends several suggestions for improvement, hopes it will be its own stand alone book; thanks him for his letter and hopes Herculaneum is being attended to; shares news of travels in the summer. With MS note at bottom, 'part of Anthropological Essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor'.

South Elms, The Parks, Oxford - Mentions their common friendship with J. S. Black; is interested in the traditions and beliefs of ancient Canaanites and Israelites, cites a passage from Jeremiah, and wonders how phrases from the Adonia came to be applied to the kings of Jerusalem; hopes Black is recovering, the news was alarming.

Accompanied by the envelope with a note in Frazer's hand, 'Adonis & Dôdah'.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 21st Oct. 1909 - Thanks him for the copy of the memoir of Fison and Howitt [published in 'Folk-Lore'] and for the new edition of the 'Passages of the Bible'; describes a long holiday, some of which was spent on [Sir John?] Murray's yacht, and mountain climbing.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 10th March 1911 - Thanks him for the copy of the two volumes (part I, third edition of the 'Golden Bough'), has been ill; is glad to hear the St Andrews Gifford Lectureship business has been settled.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 27th June 1912 - Thanks him for the copy of the 'Letters of William Cowper', who is new to him and has awakened an interest in Donne and Wordsworth; has been reading Carlyle's 'Frederick'; has been reading reviews of the 'W.R.S. volumes' [his biography of William Robertson Smith] who have been kind. With a typescript note identifying the W.R.S. volumes.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 11th Dec. 1912 - Thanks him for the honour regarding the Gifford Lectures [the dedication of 'The Belief in Immortality'] and expresses his delight at being asked to help work on 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament', and suggests Cheyne's 'Traditions and Beliefs of Ancient Israel' and 'The Two Religions of Israel'; sees 'charming vistas opening up'; a cheap popular re-issue of 'Biblica' is being talked of.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 9th Aug. 1913 - Is recovering from his illness; was interested to hear about G. G. Ramsay [and his translation of Tacitus]; spent some time with his brother in Tomintoul [where Frazer is visiting] many years ago; makes plans to meet; is ready Mrs Frazer's 'First Aid' [to the Servantless] and is enjoying it.

Tigh-na-struith, Crianlarich. Dated 22nd Sept. 1913 - Thanks him for Psyche's Task 2, thinks he should have the letters S.T.P. after his name [Sacrae Theologiae Professor]; his chapter on ghosts was appropriate after the reports of the recent meetings; Oliver Lodge 'ought to send researchers (psychical) into these promising fields before they forever cease to be fruitful'; suggests that there might be interesting research on the psychology of apes on their way to becoming anthropoid.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 2nd Dec. 1913 - Thanks him belatedly for 'The Dying God'; is sorry the George Square scheme didn't work, but does think London better than Edinburgh; knows [Wickham] Steed well by name and thinks he will be a 'great and beneficent force' on the staff of 'The Times'; would like to meet him somewhere in Italy in the spring, and asks if they have been to the Naples-Amalfi region or to Sicily; congratulations to Mrs Frazer on her new role as a grandmother and on the new book ['Victor et Victorine'?]; Emy and Fred are in Paris, and he has begun a series of articles in the Scotsman.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 12th Dec. 1913 - Thanks him for the book ['Balder the Beautiful'?]; is spending the weekend with Laurence Pullar; asks if he saw anything of Anatole France at the dinner they attended; has seen [Sir John?] Murray, who is in good spirits and who is sharing Margaret's happiness; is much recovered from his illness.

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 1913, postmark dated Dec. 17 - Admires his 'new and brilliant version' of 'Paradise Lost' ['The Serpent and the Tree of Life' in 'Essays and Studies presented to William Ridgeway']; many chapters are on the point of writing themselves in the 'apparently endless' 'Geschichte der menschlichen Narrheit', encloses a cutting from the 'Scotsman' about a communion service in the parish of Uig, Lewis attended by a U.F. minister and Free Church missionaries; is glad to hear about Anatole France. With a manuscript note in pen at the bottom identifying the article by Frazer.]

6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Dated 5th Feb. 1915 - Thanks him for the Addison volume; is leaving for London soon; Fred has been ill with influenza.

17 Learmonth Gardens, Edinburgh - Congratulates Frazer, is only sorry that their friend J. S. B. [John Sutherland Black] was not there to see it and witness the 'universal chorus of approbation with which the announcement has been received'.

35 South Eaton Place, London, S.W.1. Dated 5th Nov. 1922 - Thanks him for the abidged version of 'The Golden Bough'; arrived there after eight weeks with [Laurence] Pullar, and found the harvest weeks particularly interesting.