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Berlin - Dahlem, Am Erlenbusch 6, zur Zeit Bad Landeck (Schlesien), Unteres Generalhaus - After receiving his thanks for his contribution to the foundation of the Frazer lectureships, he surprises him with the dedication of the Loeb Apollodorus; thanks him for renewing the correspondence; the dreadful war has destroyed his fatherland, and his wife [Martha] was so weakened by hunger that she died in 1919 within a few days of catching a cold [influenza?]; 'Unfortunately I am still here'; has asked the publisher to send him his edition of Philodemus.

Nürenbergerstrasse 65 II, Berlin W.50 - Congratulates him on completing the third edition of the 'The Golden Bough' and thanks him for the volume.

Nürenbergerstrasse 65 II, Berlin W.50 [postcard with a colourised view of The Royal Exchange, London] - Thanks him for 'The Belief in Immortality'.

Nürenbergerstrasse 65 II, Berlin W.50 - Thanks him for [the fifth part of the third edition of 'The Golden Bough']. Envelope docket identifies the volume.

Nürenbergerstrasse 65 II, Berlin W.50 - Is pleased to see that part I of the third edition of the 'The Golden Bough' has appeared; found the meeting [about?] Hegel very interesting; a 'New Hegelianism' is spreading here; is about to go travelling and wonders where Frazer will be.

Berlin - Now has the third vol. of 'The Golden Bough'; sees Professor [Martin Persson] Nilsson has used his work in his 'Primitive Religion'; not sure if his wife will be well enough to travel in the autumn; accompanied by a cutting headed 'Kleines Feuilleton. Neue Mitglieder der Akademie der Wissenschaften' from 'Berliner Zeitung am Mittage', 10 May 1911.

Berlin - Is pleased at his appointment to the chair of Social Anthropology in Liverpool; a wealthy friend has offered to pay for the rights of translation as soon as his book appears; suffered a great loss with the death of [Albrecht] Dieterich in Heidelberg.

Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nürenbergerstrasse 65 II, Berlin W.50 - Gives a history of Mannhardt's archives and states that if the work of Dr Bielenstein is approved, they will publish; mentions Frazer's stepson [Grenville] Grove.

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).

Nürenbergerstrasse 65 II, Berlin W.50 - Thanks him for 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris'.

Kleiststr. 21, Berlin W.62 - Thanks him for [Lectures on the Early History of the] 'Kingship'.

Index card with address and title in [Lilly Frazer's?] hand.