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1, Brick Court, Middle Temple, E. C. - Discusses preferring Cowper to Addison; expresses dismay at reports that Germans in England have been treated poorly.

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, E. C. - Declining an invitation to visit.

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E. C. - Reacting to news of Lewis' accident in Switzerland, mentions seeing a thriving [Henry Cobden?] Haslam.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris - Refers to Lilly's recovery from illness; his distaste for [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, then leaving for Cambridge for Oxford; discusses Darwin's theories, having just read 'The Origin of Species'; has also read Einstein's explanation of his theories in an article and finds his arguments 'cloudy and confused'.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris – Lilly is working on the French translation of the abridged 'Golden Bough'; J. G. is preparing a translation of Ovid’s Fasti for the Loeb Library; they have decided to build a house in Cambridge; mentions hearing from Haddon who finds term work burdensome.

Trinity College Cambridge - covering letter only, returning letters from Sir James George Frazer to his father Henry Montagu Butler. [Letters are FRAZ/1/4-21 in the collection.]

24 Abercromby Square, Liverpool - Expresses intense regret that J. G. has chosen to leave Liverpool.

Hotel Kronenhof & Bellavista, Pontresina - Description of holiday with J. G. in Switzerland, expresses regret at leaving Liverpool and opinion that Cambridge does not value J. G. sufficiently. Mentions J. G.'s plans to edit 'The Golden Bough' in the next year.

1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, E. C. - Mentions that the Frazers have received over one thousand letters after J. G. was knighted, including two 'horrid' letters from William Wyse, who objected to J. G.'s acceptance of the knighthood.

1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, E. C. - Describes the daily routine of quiet life at home.

Royal Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone – Would like to see [Francis Macdonald] Cornford for herself before a discussion with J. G. [about the proposed Frazer Fund]; her ill health and J. G.'s desire to return to Cambridge, where they were refused rooms by the Council, her sense that Cambridge does not appreciate J. G., her ideas as to possible positions for J. G., asks that Lewis advise, and not quote her to J. G.

Cox's Hotel, Jermyn Street, St. James's - Asks to meet with him alone before an interview with J. G. about future plans.

Arranging to meet, describes her illness and ill-treatment at a hotel, and J. G.'s illness as well.

First Avenue Hotel, London - J. G. and Lilly have both been ill; she has been busy translating four books, including 'The Twig,' her term for the abridged 'Golden Bough'; is pleased with the success of the English 'Twig,' for which she claims some credit.

Queen Anne’s Mansions, St. James Park, London – An account of a tea party at which [George Henry Lane Fox] Pitt-Rivers was present, and a party at which the French Ambassador Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau presented the Légion d'honneur to Dudley Buxton for his discovery of a missing cache of Descartes’ letters. Discusses the phrase 'cent sous' in response to Lewis’ query; mentions undertaking a translation of 'Christianisme et la Révolution française' by Aulard, and writing two articles.

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).

Trinity College, Cambridge - Wishes to withdraw from the Library Committee, as his specialty is not one in which the Library is strong; also doubts the utility of College libraries, 'a system which gives us in Cambridge eighteen very imperfect libraries and not one really good one.'

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).

Trinity College, Cambridge - Discusses the use of 'tangor' in Ovid. Expresses admiration for Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

Goldsmith Building Temple, London - Letter pointing out some errors in his own translation of Ovid's Fasti, explaining how they came to be there, inviting Housman to alert him to other errors, and revisiting the use of 'tangor', which was mentioned in H. J. Rose's review of the book.

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, London - Letter [to John George Adami, Vice-Chancellor] resigning the chair of social anthropology at the university.

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.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks him for the preface to the French translation of the third volume of 'The Fear of the Dead'; is particularly interested in the part magic appears to play in the economic activities of the Trobriand Islanders, as noted in 'Argonauts of the Pacific'; is inclined to support Baldwin Spencer's theory of totemism.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Condolence letter on the death of his wife Catherine.

3 Cromwell Gardens, London - Thanks him for publishing Dr Marett's review of his book; arranges to meet.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks him for the review of his book in the 'Quarterly Review'.

3 Cromwell Gardens, London - Thanks Lady Askwith for the copy of her daughter Betty Askwith's book 'Foreigners; or, The World in a Nutshell'.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks him for his letter, has reconsidered, and will stay on the Library Committee, distrusts his own judgment in the practical matters which come before the committee.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks the company and G. H. Gray in particular, for their help in collecting books for 'Aftermath'.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks Chouville for his help in finding books in his library for 'Aftermath'.