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Trinity College, Cambridge - Supports the proposal that the College should get a bust of J. F. McLennan.

'Fire-Making Apparatus in the United States National Museum' and 'Methods of Fire-Making' from the Report of the National Museum [Smithsonian], Washington, 1890, 1892.

Incomplete draft (pages 17-22, 25-30) in Frazer's hand of an article published in 'The Journal of Hellenic Studies' Vol. 13 (1892-1893) on Wilhelm Dörpfeld's theory about the Acropolis. Written on the verso of pages of a play by Lady Frazer.

Bound volume with tables of words in Greek, their meaning, and application, with four pages of excerpts from various unidentified works at the back.

Speculates that funeral rites have two opposite meanings: some express fear and aim at separation, others express love and aim at continued union.

2 The Residences - Is planning to come up to King's for a rest on doctor's orders, looks forward to seeing Frazer.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Is happy to hear his fellowship has been renewed and asks him to thank the Council; regrets that his Pausanias is not yet printed, but the first two are in press at the moment, and when it is done, he has other books to write, for which the material is partly collected.

Paris - Thanks her for her [lecture?] on 31 January.

Trin. Coll. Cambridge [on mourning paper] - Thanks him for the copy of 'Passages from the Bible'.

5 photographs and prints of dancing, and a tracing of an image showing a cushion dance.

Two bound albums of 133 photographs of engravings and prints for consideration for inclusion in 'Dancing'. Each photograph is identified and carries codes for whether they were accepted for use or not; with notes in multiple hands[?], one of them that of Lilly Frazer [then Lilly Grove]. With a sheet of paper with a list of different dances in Lilly Frazer's hand.

1 incomplete review of 'Dancing' from an unidentified newspaper, and three cuttings mentioning the subject of dancing, including two French newspaper cuttings from [1910?] referring to Carpeaux's la Danse for the facade of l'Opéra and from 5 Sept. 1926 about the Charleston; a cutting from the 'Neue Zürcher Zeitung' from 14 Dec. 1933.

7 vol. diary of a tour of Greece from 18 Sept. to 1 Jan. 1896. The diary is a detailed account of ruins visited and countryside traversed, with rough drafts of entries in pencil followed by finished entries in pen-and-ink. Frazer traveled through the countryside with his dragoman, Apostolis, often away from hotels and other travelers, with the proof of his edition of Pausanias in hand.

Vol. I: 198 pp. with entries for 18 Sept. - 8 Oct., with preliminary pages including a plan for the tour, and packing lists of clothes and books. He records the trip from Rowmore [House, in Garelochhead?] to Athens, visiting the recent excavations made by Dörpfeld on the Acropolis, before taking the train to Nemea in the Peloponnese, and then journeying westward by horseback to Ancient Phlius, the Lake of Stymphalus, ancient Pheneus, the waterfall of the Styx, and the Ladon Valley, and then south to Karytaina. The entry for 6 Oct. contains one of the few personal stories in the diary, of a night spent in rough accommodation and an encounter with late night visitors.

Vol. II: 169 pp. with entries for 9 Oct. - 21 Oct., records his trip in central and northern Peloponnese, crossing the Gulf of Corinth to Itea and on to Delphi. He records his visits to Megalopolis, the ruins at Kalpaki, Sicyon, Pellene, and Aegira, takes the train to Patras, the steamer to Itea, and is escorted around the ruins at Delphi by [Théophile] Homolle.

Vol. III: 180 pp. with entries for 22 Oct. - 31 Oct., records his trip in Central Greece, continuing his visit to Delphi and guided by Homolle, and on, carefully describing the ruins at Charadna, Amphiclea, Velitsa (now Tithorea), where transcribes a long inscription on a stele, to Hyampolis, Abae, and Daulis (Davleia).

Vol. IV: 176 pp. with entries for 1 Nov. – 12 Nov., records his trip eastward in Boeotia (visiting Chaeronea, Orchomenus, Copae, Goulas, and Anthedon) to Chalcis, via steamer on the Euripus Strait to Stylida, Thermopylae, and back to Chalcis and Eretria.

Vol. V: 179 pp. with entries for 12 Nov. (continued) – 1 Dec., records his trip south to Skimatari (Schimatari) with a visit to ruins near Tanagra, on to Dritsa and west to Thebes, returning to Athens via Eleutherae. From Athens he visits Marathon, the ruins of Thoricus, Sunium, and takes a steamer to Poros, where he visits the ruins of Troezen (Troizina).

Vol. VI: 181 pp. with entries for 2 Dec. – 12 Dec., records his trip from Troezen to Kato-Phanari, Ano-Phanari, to Epidaurus, where he is shown around by the superintendant of excavations Mr Koromantos [recte Panagiotis Kavvadias?], on to Nauplia and the ruins of Midea, to Port Solon and the ruins of Asine, to Argos, Heraeum and thence to Mycenae.

Vol. VII: 73 pp. with entries for 12 Dec. (continued) 1895 – 1 Jan. 1896, records his trip from Mycenae to New Corinth, where he visits the Acrocorinth, then to Megara, to Athens, with trips to Piraeus, the ruins of Rhamnus, and Eleusis. He leaves Athens on the 27th, and by steamer and train makes his way back to Rowmore, arriving there on 1 January, 1896.

Soho Square, London - Has met Mrs Grove to discuss her proposed new work on dancing, says that a history could be as good as a dictionary, asks Frazer if he will read the proofs, especially the classical chapters and those relating to 'savage life'.

2 The Residences, South Kensington Museum, S.W. - Information about the proper titles of three paintings in the National Gallery. A second letter dated five days later corrects information in the first.

Trinity College, Cambridge - A letter of condolence on the death of Butler’s sister Mrs Louisa Jane Butler Galton

Trinity College, Cambridge – 30 pp. letter providing his recollections of Robertson Smith, used by John Forbes White in his biography of Smith in 'Two Professors of Oriental Languages' (Aberdeen, 1899).

Craigtay, Dundee -Thanks him for his recollections of Robertson Smith, shares some of his own; doesn't know Burkitt, asks if he could get some notes from him; is working hard on a lecture on 'Expression in Greek Sculpture'. Accompanied by an envelope.

Manuscript draft in Frazer's hand, with corrections, lacking the second to last page and the last page.

Bound volume containing notes on 'Le droit coutumier des Slaves méridionaux d'après les recherches de m. V. Bogišic' and notes on Greece, including 20 pp. of notes on [Arthur George] Bather’s Essay on the Erechtheum. With a postcard laid in loose between pp. 100-101 from David Nutt, Foreign Bookseller, dated 17 July 1892 concerning [Otto] Benndorf's 'Wiener Vorlegeblätter [für archaeologische Übungen]'.

Barskimming, Maughline, Ayrshire. Private - Asks if he would accept the Gifford Lectureship [at Glasgow University] for the years 1898-1900 if it were offered to him; he would like an answer that evening in advance of a meeting with Lord Kelvin.

Trinity College - Thanks him for his kind words, and feels that he is simply doing his duty; 'This life of study and research is my ideal life' and is grateful to the College for enabling him to pursue it.

Rowmore House, Garelochhead, N.B. - Copy of speech in an unidentified hand. Accompanied by an unaddressed envelope.

Craigtay, Dundee - Returning Frazer's recollections of William Robertson Smith, which White used in his biography of Smith in 'Two Professors of Oriental Languages' (Aberdeen, 1899).

Bound volume with 20 pages of notes in Frazer's hand.

Bound notebook with 23 pages of the draft in Frazer's hand, much revised. Turned upside down and started from the back cover are 2 pages of a draft of a biography of William Cowper.

Grove Place, Oxford - Sends a 'little brochure' [not present] as a souvenir of Frazer's first visit.

Trinity College - Apologises for not paying his respects at the meeting of the Library Committee, and explains that he did not realise he was there until too late.

Inch-ma-home - Thanks him for his kind letter [in response to his apology for not paying his respects at the meeting of the Library Committee], will treasure the volume of sermons.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer on the honorary doctorate from Oxford. Lunched with the recently arrived Senator Hoar from America, who had bought a copy of Pausanias immediately upon arrival.