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FRAZ/21/58 · Item · [9 Mar. 1910]
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Title continues: 'or Tit-bits of Information concerning the true inward meaning of two comets which have lately appeared over Rodney Street to the consternation & amazement of the inhabitants'; dated March 9th, 39 Rodney Street [Liverpool?]. Humorous verse written for a club meeting [?], mentioning comets lately appeared [the Daylight Comet and Halley's?], the general election, and referring to members by name: Keane, [Richard] Caton, [Harold Chaloner] Dowdall, F. E. Smith, MacCunn, Williams, [Frank Stanton?] Carey; mentioning Frazer first: 'Frazer, who has written about a vegetable god in so many books we can't quote 'em, And now he comes down with a fresh set of yarns all true about Totem.'

Add. MS b/35/158 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

22 Rock Park, Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Dated Dec. 8, 1916 - Thanks him for the Huxley memorial address; Chauncey Puzey and M. Bagin have died, Edgar Browne is much changed; is vexed with the pacifist strain at Trinity, does not understand Bertrand Russell and his friends; sad to hear that [J. P.] Postgate's son [Raymond] and Adam Sedgwick's son are in gaol for refusing to serve; both of his boys are in France: Dick's made a raid the other day and entered the German trench to find no one there; the University is limping along; W. Gasperi visited, has never doubted his sympathies; salutes the conservatives and labour government uniting under Lloyd George.

Add. MS b/35/156 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

3 Cavendish Terrace, Princes Park, Liverpool. Dated Dec. 24, 1913 - Thanks him for the concluding volumes of 'The Golden Bough'; 1913 has been an appalling one of loss of many friends; [Jesse Alfred?] Twemlow is very ill; Mair is seriously ill, but Strong, [John] MacCunn, and the Edgar Brownes are well; hopes they will visit.

Add. MS b/35/155 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

3 Cavendish Terrace, Princes Park, Liverpool. Dated Oct. 22, 1913 - Thanks him for 'The Scapegoat'; repeats a joke his son Dick made about planting his knife in 'The Golden Bough' to open its secrets; the Master [of Trinity] sent round some verses; saw J. S. Reid who spoke mainly of Robertson [Robinson?] Ellis; [J. P.] Postgate was visiting and Carey revealed to him his son's [Raymond Postgate's] violent socialist opinions, which were a shock; Edgar Browne is publishing a new book.

Add. MS b/35/150 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

3 Cavendish Terrace, Devonshire Road, Liverpool. Dated March 16, 1911 - Thanks him for 'The Magic Art'; tells a story suggested by the birthmark story in 'Totemism and Exogamy': his wife was hit by a ball in her eighth month of pregnancy and their son was born with a discoloured eyelid; son has been home a month from a football accident; he has been ill, which has coincided with squabbling over bringing a German in as Professor of Greek, [J. P.] Postgate is fighting hard; the Edgar Brownes are well; the Strongs are leaving; Chauncey Puzey is well.