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16 Madingley Road, Cambridge; Burrows Hill, Comshall, Surrey; Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Four letters concerning the published address on the foundation of the Frazer Lectureship, written by A. E. Housman, and arrangements to publish Frazer's address of thanks.

Inch-ma-home - Thanks him for his congratulations for the Oxford degree.

Great Shelford - Accepts an invitation to dine at Trinity on 17 November [to meet Paul Painlevé].

7 Audley Square, W.1. [on mourning stationery] - Writes to make arrangements for the ceremony conferring the honorary degree from the University of Manchester, and discusses Naville's letter about primitive wheat, which he returns [not present].

7 Audley Square, W.1. [on mourning stationery] - Thanks Frazer for sending 'Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies', and comments in particular on the essay on Frazer's parents and Scottish ancestors; is interested in tales of old Scotland and is intrigued to hear that they might be cousins.

7 Audley Square, W.1. [on mourning stationery] - Thanks Frazer for his kind note, and Lady Frazer for her postscript.

19 De Freville Avenue, Cambridge - Accepts Frazer's invitation to dine at Trinity on 17 November [to meet Paul Painlevé].

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham - Encloses 11 pp. of notes on Indian dance he had promised to send. Says modern dance is confined to the 'Jungle tribes', and lists two varieties: in one, lines of women advance and retreat, and in the second, the dance is circular.

St Keyne's, Cambridge - Thanks him for the correction of an error in the third edition of 'The Golden Bough', part I, and explains how it came about.

Breadalbane Hotel, Kenmore, Perthshire - Thanks him for the new edition of [H. H.] Risley's 'People of India', notes that he has not seen it as he has been in Scotland since May; is looking forward to [R. V.] Russell's book, 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India'; knows Crooke must be concerned about his sons at the front.

Form completed in manuscript, thanking him for his discourse on 'The Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions'.

The Guardian Office, Manchester - Sends a copy of the next day's Manchester Guardian [not present] with an article about Frazer and the upcoming publication of 'Aftermath'.

Inch-ma-home - Asks him to submit two questions to College Council as to work allowed under the terms of his fellowship.

Downing College, Cambridge - Has seen in vol. 1 of 'The Golden Bough' a reference to the belief whereby an animal gnawing the cast tooth of a child will cause the child to have that animal's tooth, and tells Frazer he heard this himself as a child.

45 Hans Place, S.W.1. - Has enjoyed reading the speech on receiving the freedom of Glasgow; states his belief that science should be studied as well; would enjoy more detail of his later career.

Form completed in manuscript acknowledging gift of 'The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar', signed by W. R. Cunningham, Librarian.

22 Raroa Road, Wellington, New Zealand - Draws attention to two Maori beliefs, one relating to the spirit arising from an aural illusion as told him by J. C. Andersen, the other a modern example of burying articles with the dead.

11 Ridgmont Road, St. Albans - Encloses photographs [not present] of the Minoan nature goddess, Rehtia and Orthia and asks for his comments; writes that Frazer's Ovid has been helpful, particularly in the matter of snakes, and the puzzle about the Roman ten months; is pleased he included his description of the hillside in front of Horace's farm.

Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris - Informs him he has been elected an associate foreign member of the Academy.

22 Belhaven Terrace, Glasgow - Thanks him for his letter about the ring [Thomas Brown of Lanfine's signet ring] and his recollections of Lanfine; would enjoy a chance to exchange memories of old Glasgow.

Inch-ma-home - Thanks him for his letter conveying the answer of the College Council that he is free to work as he thinks best.

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - In letter of 2 June, Frazer asks Butler to sign some enclosed memorials to the Australian government about some anthropological work and has received a letter from Mr [Francis?] Galton, who had just returned from Greece and heard 'a graphic account of my first (alas! it will not be my last) journey to the Styx.'

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - Writes concerning the memorials he had sent Butler [to the Australian government concerning some anthropological work] and says that if Butler has any reservations Frazer will not use his name; [Francis?] Galton has already declined.

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - Thanks him for his letter giving his permission to use his name on the memorial [to the Australian government on preserving the anthropological record of 'primitive men now left on the globe']; other signatories are Professors [Sir Richard] Jebb, [Frederic?] Maitland, [Charles] Waldstein [later Walston], [James?] Ward, [Henry Francis?] Pelham, Andrew Lang, Henry Jackson, and James Bryce, and of Cambridge science men, [Sir Michael?] Foster, [Alfred?] Newton, [Sir Francis?] Darwin, [John Newport] Langley, [Adam?] Sedgwick.

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - Does not expect Butler to read all three volumes [of 'The Golden Bough']: 'I quite understand that to many minds the descriptions of foolish and absurd customs which make up the bulk of the book may be tedious and even painful'; had a happy winter in Rome, but had to cut short their visit to return because their tenant left their house in Cambridge early.

Barclay's Bank Limited, Cambridge - Receipt for collection of papers described as Catalogue of Library of Sir James George Frazer.

No. 1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, London - Thanks for the gift of Butler’s own 6 volume copy of Richard Hurd’s 'Works of Joseph Addison'.

Trinity Coll. - Encloses a ticket to a lecture on the sacred and magical functions of kings in early society, and advises Lewis to stay away lest he be 'corrupted'.

Trinity College - Acknowledges congratulations from Lewis. Refers to the role their mutual friend Mrs Browne had in hiring his wife Lilly Frazer to teach at the Girls’ High School in Liverpool, with the story of her first day there.

St Keyne's - Asking if he may bring his friends Dr and Mrs [Sydney Richard?] Scott to Lewis's rooms when they arrive.