Album containing 119 cuttings of newspaper and magazine articles mentioning Sir James and Lilly Frazer, including reviews of 'Aftermath', 'Creation and Evolution of Primitive Cosmogonies', 'Essais et souvenirs', 'Totemica', 'Greece and Rome: a Selection from the Works of Sir James George Frazer', 'Pasha the Pom', 'A Bibliography of Sir James Frazer', and 'The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion', including reviews by Raymond Firth of 'Totemica' for both 'The Spectator', Nov. 1937 (page 19) and for 'Life and Letters To-Day', Winter 1937 (page 27); and by Ruth Benedict of 'The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion' Vol. III in 'The New York Herald Tribune' of Sept. 1936 (page 52). A photograph of James and Lilly from the 'Weekly Illustrated London' of 2 Jan. 1937 appears on page 6.
Pinbury Park, Cirencester - Regrets he cannot speak at the meeting on 28 January; did not know Housman at all well, was interested to read her letter about him.
God's destruction of man, wishes to sell his estate in Essex, description of estate, William Henry Mayor in Bermuda, Tom Mayor: Shrewsbury
Offer of the living of Shawbury, a small living with a very good house: Hawkstone
Advice on letter writing: GPO London
Photocopy of a combination of typescript pages heavily revised in manuscript and manuscript pages, heavily revised, with a manuscript title page, with "Tchaikovsky Play" crossed out and "Bezique" added in pencil.
Photographs of Paul Scofield, Simon Callow, Felicity Kendal, Andrew Cruickshank, Basil Henson, and Nicholas Selby.
Galley proofs marked by Frazer [and another hand?], with ink stamp 'First Proof' at the top of some pages, some also carrying 'Marked Proof' and 'R' in pencil at top, with ink stamps of R. & R. Clark, Ltd. Edinburgh at bottom of some sheets, dated 5-11 Oct. 1934. The corrections are mostly typographical, with the addition of a paragraph in 'Memories of My Parents' describing residences of Frazer's father now found on page 137 of the printed volume.
Manuscript music scores, including four setting J. G. Frazer's poems and his translation of a Heine poem to music. Other material relates to Lilly Frazer's work, with a music score for her operetta 'The Singing Wood', an early draft of stage directions for a play, manuscript scores, and printed sheet music of French songs.
Blind stamp of the Athenaeum, Liverpool - Offers congratulations to both.
Université de Nancy - Would like to offer the Frazers the Université de Nancy medal; wanted to give it to them last Friday but it could not be engraved in time; very much enjoyed their visit. Accompanied by the envelope.
FRAZ/1-4 consists of four boxes containing just over 575 letters, most of them addressed to J. G. Frazer. The letters span 1888-1941, but the bulk date from the 1920s and 1930s, and primarily concern Frazer’s works and related personal business. An alphabetic sequence of letters spans the four boxes, preceded by a shorter one of 62 letters in FRAZ/1, and succeeded by a collection of 110 letters written to congratulate Frazer on the award of the Order of Merit in FRAZ/4. FRAZ/1 is unusual in that it includes the only original letters from J. G. Frazer in the papers (29 of them: Items 4-29, 39, 42-43); there are also thirteen typed copies of his letters in this box (Items 44-54, 82 and 84) dating from the 1930s, after Frazer's eyesight failed and a secretary was employed. There are 9 original letters from Lilly Frazer to William James Lewis (Items 30-38), and a copy of a letter from Lilly to Sir John Myres (Item 55). Three other copies of James's letters from the late 1930s appear in boxes 2-4 (Items 2/95, 3/43, 3/47), and there is also a draft of a letter to Lord Stamfordham in box 4 (Item 119). Two other copies of letters from Lilly appear in box 3: to R. R. Marett (Item 3) and Norman Parley (Item 44).
Application to be appointed Civil and session Judge.
Fragment: description of the wedding of Alexandria Jessie Grote and Joseph Bickersteth Mayor
Reasons for being unsure as to whether to enter the Church: GPO, London
Henrietta’s new situation at Acton: Kirkby Lonsdale
Death of Mr Stephenson
Approves of Dr Johnson's work with the poor: Wilmot Street.
Met with an old friend who had lived in a darkened room for many years after a blow to the head
Congratulations on debut [as an actress], likelihood of an opening in the Ceylon Co for Bertie.
Enquires after Mary [?] following her severe shock.
Ship becalmed, crossing-the-line ceremony
Congratulations on examination result and two prizes