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The Master's House, The Temple, E.C.4. - Hopes to see him the next day, in the midst of packing books; has received Lady Frazer's letter to Mrs Draper explaining the plan to go to Rome sooner than planned.

FRAZ/16 consists of one box containing 131 letters and two writings which fall into three discernable groups with an unformed miscellany in the middle. Items 1-51 consist of letters written primarily to Lilly Frazer from friends and selected institutions to thank her for the copy of R. Angus Downie's biography 'James George Frazer: the Portrait of a Scholar' published in 1940. The letters date from June to October 1940, and many of the correspondents refer to life in wartime, including R. R. Marett, who writes on 12 June about his son Jack, missing after the attack on the HMS Glorious (Item 34).

Letters 52-70 are letters of congratulation on the award of the Légion d'honneur and date from March and April 1926. Items 71-98 are the miscellany, and include two writings, a group of Frazer's poems, and a speech made at Queen's College, London (Items 97 and 98). This group also includes Asquith's letter offering the knighthood in June 1914 (Item 82), and a typed copy of a letter from J. G. Frazer to Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (Item 74).

Letters 99-131 are the start of the alphabetic run that continues into box 17. The 168 letters in box 17 span the dates 1888-1940 with the bulk dating from the 1920s and 1930s, are addressed to J. G. Frazer and sometimes also Lilly Frazer and primarily concern J. G. Frazer's works and related personal business. The alphabetic run continues with 22 letters by Warren Dawson on the topic of the Frazer Lectures volume followed by 11 more letters related to the volume which interrupt the alphabetic order, a number of them relating to the question of omitting R. R. Marett's lecture from the volume. Two letters from Lilly Frazer to James Frazer, the only two letters between them in the papers appear here, Items 48 and 49, dated December 1904.

There are three speeches in FRAZ/17 as well: a copy of the speech by Canon Farrar at Durham University conferring the Honorary Doctor of Letters on Frazer (Item 42), a summary of a speech by René Maunier, President of the French Folklore Society (Item 47); Frazer's speech on being admitted an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple (Item 101).

Albemarle Club, London - Thanks Andrade for his book ['The Mechanism of Nature'], mentions his own early studies with Lord Kelvin, shares Andrade's view that science is not a rigid system, and invites him to dinner.

63 Curzon Street, Mayfair - Sends two books as a gift; it was a pleasure to meet the Frazers, who brought back 'delightful and fragrant' memories of Peterhouse and the great kindness of Lord Kelvin; mentions [Robert Alexander?] Neil and [William James?] Chrystal, who were friends of his.

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

Trinity College, Cambridge - As Secretary of the College Memorials Committee, informs Frazer that they would like a copy of the bust of Frazer by Bourdelle; wants Frazer to contact Bourdelle.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks her for the introduction to Bourdelle, has enquired about the cost of the bust.

Buckingham Palace - Offers the Order of Merit, 'in recognition of your eminent services in the world of literature, science and scholarship'; asks if this would be agreeable to Frazer. Accompanied by the envelope marked Urgent, addressed to Frazer at Trinity College and redirected to Hotel Great Central, London, N.W.1.

FRAZ/29 consists of one box of 114 letters, most of them addressed to J. G. Frazer. The letters span the dates 1872-1940, the bulk dating from the 1920s and 1930s, and primarily concern J. G. Frazer's works and related personal business. Over a third of the letters are written in French. The alphabetic sequence is limited to one box, with some previously unidentified letters filed at the end, along with one letter that remains unidentified. There are five typed copies of letters from J. G. Frazer to five correspondents, dated 1937 and 1938, when he was using the services of a secretary (Items 24-28). The earliest letters here are two letters from Archbishop Luigi Josef Puecher Passavalli to Emilie Hyacinthe-Loyson and an unidentified person, dated 13 and 17 April 1872 (Items 52-53). It is unclear how they came into the Frazers' possession, though the letter filed directly before, from Frédéric Passy to Abbé [Breuil] makes reference to Hyacinthe Loyson's letters.

Items 112-114 have been removed: they were catalogued with the Frazer papers initially in error, they are are part of the Papers of Sir Walter Greg, GREG 1/196-198, three postcards from [J. S.?] to W. W. Greg, dated 1939-[1942].

Crindau, Dumfries, N.B. - Congratulates Frazer.

St. Radegunds, Chaucer Road - Congratulates Frazer.

One of a set of eight testimonial letters printed when Frazer was an applicant for the Chair of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen: praises his 'high capacity for scientifically mastering a language'. Accompanied by a duplicate.

Three bound notebooks with over 300 pages of notes, the first with a heading at the top of the first page of notes, 'The Secret of the Totem. A Supplement to "Totemism and Exogamy". Sources of Information' [later titled 'Totemica']. Notes in an unidentified hand, with an index for the first two volumes in J. G. Frazer’s hand. Four photographic postcards of Corsica, with undated notes by [François Ceccaldi?] on the verso of two describing the scene depicted and inviting them to visit, were laid in loose to the second volume.

Typed copy, with manuscript emendations and additions in an unidentified hand, of a notebook containing bibliographies for subjects covered in all 3 volumes of 'The Fear of the Dead', beginning with 'Works to be consulted' followed by bibliographies for over 90 different subjects, such as 'Ghosts imparting fertility to crops', 'Oracles given by ghosts', and 'Dangerous ghosts of the murdered'.

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

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

Notes in Frazer's hand for his translation of Pausanias, and the second edition of 'The Golden Bough', with two drafts of articles[?] at the back of the volume, one denying that Pausanias didn’t actually travel to the places he described, and the other on the temple of Athena Polias. With several items laid in: six pages of notes [for his translation of Pausanias?] with later pencil notes on verso: one a list in Lilly Frazer’s hand of linens sent on 31 Jan. 1921; page 2 of an early draft[?] of his speech on the centenary of Ernest Renan; a page 235 from a draft of 'The Worship of Nature'[?], and some notes on vols. III and VI of Ovid’s ‘Fasti’.

Bound volume containing notes in Frazer's hand, quotes from books read, with publication information, on a variety of topics. With a list of books 'For Sir James Frazer' laid in loose.

49 pages of notes disbound from a volume, in Frazer's hand, on Vitruvius; and 4 loose pages of notes on Pitt Rivers items, also in Frazer's hand.

Bound volume with notes in Frazer's hand, additions of references to the second and third editions of 'The Golden Bough', and addenda to proofs; with addenda to the second edition of 'Psyche’s Task' and at the back, turned upside down and started from the back cover, 5 pages of 'Additions for the second edition of Adonis[, Attis, Osiris]'.

Bound volume in Frazer's hand, with 16 pp. of notes for a lecture on Pliny the Younger, Addison, and Cowper. Turned upside down and on the inside back endpaper is ‘Additions to Notes on Apollodorus’, and continuing on in the back are 4 pp. of notes for 'The Worship of Nature'[?].

Bound volume in Frazer's hand, with 11 pp. of bibliography; 2 pp. of queries for the third proofs of ‘Myths and the Origin of Fire’; 34 pp. of notes on Platonism, mostly taken from W. Lutosławski's 'Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic', and 10 pp. of notes from Felix Speiser’s 'Im Düster des brasilianischen Urwalds' and from Pierre Barrere’s 'Nouvelle Relation de la France Equinoxiale'.

Drafts of 'The Origin of Totemism', the Preface to 'Sir Roger de Coverley', 'On the Science of Man', the Introduction to Apollodorus, 'Reply to an Address' [on the occasion of the foundation of the lectureship in Frazer’s honour]; with notes on the legends of the origin of fire-making, Apollodorus, on 'London Life in Addison’s Time', the belief in immortality, and anthropological notes on the people of Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Andaman Islands, and the Marquesas. With 7 items laid in loose, 6 of them pages torn from the notebook, and one a list of books for Sir James Frazer.

Bound volume with 12 pages in Frazer's hand of an early draft[?] of his speech on receiving the doctorate from the Université de Paris[?], with some emendations in the hand of Lilly Frazer.

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]'.

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.

Bound volume containing notes in Frazer's hand for the third edition of 'The Golden Bough'. Turned upside down and started from the back cover are two drafts of the preface to the third edition.

Bound volume in Frazer's hand with 45 pages of bibliographical notes, entitled 'Addenda to Totemism'. Turned upside down and started from the back cover are 17 pages of 'Subjects to be discussed in Summary and Conclusion of “Totemism and Exogamy"'.

Bound volume with notes in Frazer's hand. Turned upside down and starting from the back cover are 6 pages of notes and 7 pages of a draft for an article, 'The English Ideal', written after the start World War I. With two pages laid in loose, which were separated from the volume and found laid in loose inside 'Notebook GR. I', FRAZ 35/8.