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Genève - In letter of 28 December 1921, Bret, Chancelier d'Etat de la République & canton de Geneve, thanks Frazer for his contribution of his autograph 'Pensée', but asks that he submit another that is less about the honour of Switzerland and more simply dedicated to the memory of brave soldiers. Letter of 12 Jan. thanks him for his new 'Pensée'.

University of Edinburgh [on mourning stationery] - In letter of 29 Jan., offers the Gifford Lectureship from Oct. 1902 to Oct. 1904; the letter of 14 Feb., the Committee asks that he reconsider declining the offer as they are not meant to be a course of lectures on theology.

Letter of 29 Jan. 1901 accompanied by envelope.

Two letters.

60/12 encloses 'a copy of the fac-simile that has been made of what I believe to be an Autograph of our great writer'.

Title from captions. Two photograph of men mid-race (Lent Bumps) on the river, with crowd on the riverbank watching. A later hand has identified the men in the boat: C. W. Ehrlich (cox), Thomas L. C. Gregory, Bertram F. Crosfield, W. B. Savory, Edward M. Winterbotham, Clement Dru Drury, Lord O'Hagan, Paul P. Calligas, Thomas L. Bennett.

A.12: Small red loose-leaf notebook, includes diary entries September-October 1943, notes of and for experiments, apparatus, calculations, etc.
A.13: Loose pages from a diary, some with various dates 1943, probably removed by Frisch from A.12. Similar content.

15: Describes life at Somerby with W. H. Brookfield and family.

Letters dated 13 July 1858 - 22 Feb. 1859.

Letters from 22 Dec. 1882 to 6 Jan. 1883 typewritten.

Note on verso of front flyleaf: 'Memorandum for journals to be transcribed, arranged, and cleared of rubbish at some future time...'

Heading at top of first page: 'Venice November 15th. Continued from loose papers - ' Containing notes on buildings, history etc.

Note on inside front cover describing the purpose of the book: 'Etymologicum - Remarks on the Etymology of words in English and other modern languages... Item to rule off a space in the margin and to have a blank after the remarks on the Etymology of each words for additional notes or references'.

Notes at end: 'Item to collect no more simple words - Reserve the rest of the volume for observations on Etymologies and for extracts from foreign authors serving to illustrate derivations.' 'Item. To note no more obvious etymologies especially German, of common words - such a collection will soon fill this volume with rubbish of which no use can be made and as such words occur continually in reading, it will be impossible to avoid frequent repetitions.'

Contents listed at beginning of volume, p. 361. 'Etymologies of Italian words, or of English [words] from Italian - Remarks upon Italian grammar', p. 369. The same for French, p. 425, and German, p. 491. 'Etymologies of English words from ancient and modern languages, Italian, French and German excepted - Remarks upon English grammar. Miscellaneous Etymologies and remarks not referable to any of the preceding sections. Rules for French pronunciation continued from Vol. I p 360-363' p. 563 . 'Omissions and errors in Johnsons Dictionary' p. 567. Blank pages between sections.

Loose between pp. 560-561: invitation addressed to 'Dr Wordsworth' to dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Howley on 18 Mar. [no year]; notes on the 'Superiority of ancient over modern, or modern over ancient languages', 2ff; notes headed 'Schlegel on the literature of Provence', 1 f., paginated 274; notes headed 'Errors, Inaccuracies, improprieties or inelegancies writing English. Observations upon English Grammar, see Remarks on Style in book of Compos. p. 45. Put remarks on Style and Grammar together incorrectly [?]', 1 f., paginated 274.

Fuller title given on page facing verso of front free endpaper: 'Latin Phrase Book - Remarks on Errors to be avoided in writing Latin.' Note below: 'Mem. to preserve the remainder of the book'. Both notes written out again two ff. on.

Phrases noted down alphabetically, beginning with 'G'. Margin drawn to the left of each page, in which the English phrase required is written; related notes, including apposite quotations from Latin authors, take up the main part of the page.

p. 165: 'Remarks on errors common in modern Latinity and list of words and phrase to be avoided in writing Latin.

p. 166 onwards: 'Addenda'. From p. 178 onwards these are arranged alphabetically.

p. 277 onwards: alphabetical index.

Memorandum on verso of free endpaper: 'Mem. besides references to rules and observations contained in Misc. Crit.., insert in this book rules and remarks which do not seem to require illustration of discussion and which may therefore be more conveniently placed at once in the index, rather than repeated here from Misc. Crit....'

Organised alphabetically. Margin drawn on left of each page, in which the subject of each note is recorded; the main body of each note, including apposite quotations from Latin authors, is then written to the right of the margin.

Organised alphabetically. Margin drawn on left of each page, in which the subject of each note is recorded; the main body of each note, including apposite quotations from Latin authors, is then written to the right of the margin. Many pages blank.

Notes on Greek and Latin proverbs. Fuller title on first page: 'Proverba Graeca et Latina cum explicationibus grammaticorum tum veterum tum recentiorum', with note to self by Wordsworth beneath on how to keep the book. Alternate pages left blank; wide margins ruled at left-hand side of each recto page, in which annotations, references etc frequently appear.