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Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, Nr. Birmingham. Dated Oct. 22/03 - There is no convenient text book for the Calendar: he uses [Nicolaus] Nilles, 'Kalendarium Manuale', the printed Synaxaristes and the Acta Sanctorum; has some material on rain-charms and other things from Armenia, and asks if Frazer wants notes or something more formal.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, Nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 4/03 - Sends him the notes on Syrian and Armenian folklore [not transcribed] for him to evaluate; asks him to notice the point about the Children of the Sky as rain-producers.

1 Brick Court, Temple, E.C. Dated 15th October 1916 - Is interested in his mention of widowers marrying the sister of their wife in Roscoe's 'Worship of the Dead'; is glad he is investigating cousin marriage among the Bantus; enjoyed his talk with Dr Steele, is glad to hear of his scheme for a Missionary College in London; Rendel Harris' paper on the Mandrake will be useful in connection with Jacob; saw nothing of the Zeppelins but heard distinct firing on one occasion.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, Nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 12/03 - Sends a few corrections to the GB vol. I, and encloses a story of a friend, Joseph Hoyland Fox, made the victim of sympathetic magic [not transcribed]; sends a cutting from the 'Daily News' [not transcribed] relating to twins, one human, one divine.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer on his 80th birthday: expresses his deepest regard for him, explains that retrenchment means he cannot contribute to the projected bibliography; the third volume of Zeus will be published soon; sympathises with his physical disabilities, and mentions his friend Rendel Harris, who has lost one eye.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, Nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 13/03 - Points out a correlation between the signs of the zodiac who liberate the sun and the Gemini who liberate the daughters of the Sun in Greek legend, thinks it was [Hector Munro] Chadwick who pointed out that the signs must be twins.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Berlin Hamilton 634, with a letter from E. R. Dodds to Powell dated 22 Nov. 1937 forwarding a letter from Raymond Klibansky to Professor Dodds, and a letter from Rendel Harris to Powell dated 23 Nov. 1937, and a draft[?] of a letter from Powell to [?] Harrison dated 24 Nov. 1937.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, Nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 21/03 - Has been reading articles by A. B. Cook and thinks Frazer has nearly converted him; [Hector] Chadwick sends a quotation about twins from Bede; mentions a belief about the Angel Gabriel and a fountain in the Asia Minor village of Habusu and finds a similarity with a Burmese New Year.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 24/04 - Has been thinking over Frazer's comments on the meaning of Boanerges, asks if they make rain, and quotes Gregory of Nyssa.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated June 21/04 - Went on an expedition ot Balsall to see the public-house sign St George in the Tree.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 28/04 - Asks if he has said anything in GB about Abraham and the holy oak at Mamre; thinks the angels of the Abraham legend are the Thunder God and the Dioscuri; is more drawn to the idea that the Boanerges are the sons of the Thunder God.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated Feb 4/06 - Has read the 'Fortnightly' articles ['The Beginnings of Religion and Totemism among the Australian Aborigines'] and remarks on the ignorance of conception noted there and mentions a similar ignorance in a village near Cambridge.

Undated - Rendel Harris has told him he asked the Frazers to call on him [Saintsbury], but he regrets he is ill and cannot receive them.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated May 25/06 - Responds to a letter of Frazer's, about his theories about twins: twins and the Saints, twin-sanctuaries, twins in the Bible, twins and fertility.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated June 15/06 - Has read [John] Roscoe's 'Further Notes' on Uganda and found it 'full of valuable matter, very badly put together and often in impossible English'; the connection between twins and fertility is clear; questions the definition of the word 'Mulongo' and wonders if it has to do with the placenta.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated March 9/14 - Has been reading 'Balder' ['the Beautiful'] and was struck by the chapter on the bull-roarer: 'you have proved the unity of the human race, a point on which I have had many doubts'; is pleased to hear how many signed the [petition for John Roscoe]; is glad to see A. B. Cook quoted in recent volumes of GB.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, nr. Birmingham. Dated April 14/15 - Responds to Frazer, who has complained of insoluble problems, finds [stories relating to] Abraham difficult to parse; will soon send a paper on the Origin of the Cult of Apollo.

Dated 26 October 1899 - Cites sources that discuss different aspects of the Trinity, suggests Epiphanius as a source for folklore; will be delighted to read the proof of the second 'GB'; Salomon Reinach suggests that the story in Pausanias of Midas and the anchor is an echo of a flood myth; saw Rendel Harris on a bicycle trip through Cambridge.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak. Dated May 11th, 1917 - Mourns the death of James Moulton; is looking forward to reading his 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament'.

54 Wood Road, Whalley Range, Manchester. Dated Feb. 17/19 - Quotes William Dell citing Godmanchester as a site where ultimogeniture prevailed.

3 Queen Anne Terrace, Cambridge. Dated 14.11.01 - Thanks him for his letter and interesting talk; mentions two references for the 'Barabbas problem' mentioning Rendel Harris's support of a theory about the Marquis of Carabas in 'Puss in Boots' and suggestion that he find a Persian name to fit Carabas.

3 Queen Anne Terrace, Cambridge. Dated 18.11.01 - Continues to discuss Barabbas, with Rendel Harris's opinion and [A. A.] Bevan's; thinks he sees a connection between the Feast of the Fravishis and the Feast of Misrule; is writing an article on 'The Golden Bough' second edition for the 'London Quarterly'.

172 Withington Raod, Whalley Range, Manchester. Dated Feb. 5/22 - Has been enjoying Frazer's Apollodorus, and finds it valuable for the subject of the twin-cult; makes suggestions concerning the importance of the mound of Alkmena, and the twin-birth of Danaos and whether the twins are the first ship-builders, as mentioned in his 'Boanerges'.

The Bombay Y.M.C.A., Student Branch, Lamington Road, Girgaum, Bombay. Dated Oct. 8, 1916 - Encloses Sir A. G. Cardew's letter [not transcribed] with answers to Frazer's questions, sent him by Lord Pentland; is sure if Frazer writes him he would pass on fresh queries to this lady missionary [Miss Grove?] or her predecessor Miss [C. F.] Ling, or to [John Robertson?] Henderson; will be teaching at the United Theological College, Bangalore and will be joined by Rendel Harris; is working on his 'Treasure of the Magi'; tells of his son Ralph, killed in France after two days at the front.

Grange Court, Leominster. Dated 26.vi.1916 - Encloses his notes on Mothering Sunday [transcribed] which he and Rendel Harris think must belong to the Corn-God idea.

Grange Court, Leominster - Encloses his notes on Mothering Sunday which he and Rendel Harris think must belong to the Corn-God idea.

5 Park Terrace, Cambridge. Dated May 30/01 - The tradition of the Corn Baby is still extant in Great Gransden parish, and they sometimes send one to the [Clare College] Master.

Rome. Dated June 11/01 - Asks if Frazer knew the feast of the Lake of Nemi is still held in August, and says that serpents are worshipped at a spring festival not far away.

5 Park Terrace, Cambridge. Dated June 30/01 - There are conflicting accounts of the Nemi festival; mentions again the Serpent Festival in the Spring; was astonished and grieved to hear of [Robert] Neil's departure.

19, Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Is sorry to hear of the enforced retreat to Selly Oak; attended James George Frazer's 87th birthday party and comments on his health and on his wife Lilly, thinks James a better Christian than himself; describes wartime Cambridge, with bombs falling on the outskirts of town, the constant sirens, with a story about the reaction of the Rev. Henry Carter during a service in the [Emmanuel] Congregational Church; the Library treasures scattered, Professors [David Winton?] Thomas and [Percy Henry?] Winfield, as members of the Home Guard spending nights on the top of its tower; describes his contributions to an exhibition at Peterhouse Lodge, 'Fifty Centuries of Greek Art'; also describes a 'Hellenistic gem' he acquired from a cement-worker in Shepreth which bears an inscription he traces to Adam of Newmarket.