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Bibliothèque Nationale - The 'Codex Mazarinianus' is the no. 8864 (Auct.F.4.25) of the Bodleian Library, given by Queen Christine of Sweden to Heinsius with other manuscripts. 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).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notebooks, diaries, music manuscripts, printed material, and photographs which document the life and work of social anthropologist and classical scholar Sir James George Frazer, and to a lesser extent that of his wife, the writer and translator Lilly Frazer (known after June 1914 as Lady Frazer), who acted as his manager and press agent. The collection spans the years 1872-1941, but the bulk of the material dates from the 1920s and 1930s.

Research strengths include Frazer’s writings in the 1920s and 1930s, social anthropology, folklore, classical scholarship, British and French publishing history, and Trinity College academic and social life. The bulk of the collection dates from the last two decades of his life, and therefore contains material from a time well after his reputation was established. While there are letters from people with anthropological data, the collection does not include the vast amount of data and answers to his anthropological questionnaires that he presumably possessed when compiling the first edition of 'The Golden Bough'. Very often letters with anthropological data are in the form of fan letters, whose writers wish to correct or add to information in one of his books.

The papers are arranged in small and repeated groupings, with alphabetical runs of letters followed by writings and printed material, returning to more alphabetical runs of letters featuring many of the same correspondents as the previous runs, more writings, and research materials, and on. The searching abilities of the database will be useful to find all materials by a person or on a subject.

The correspondence is almost entirely incoming, with just 29 original letters from James Frazer (in FRAZ/1) and 15 typed copies of his letters (in FRAZ/1-4, 16, 25 and 29) and twelve original letters, a draft and four typed copies by Lilly Frazer (in FRAZ/1, 3, 17, 31 and 33) in a collection of over 2300 letters evenly divided between the two. In addition to runs of alphabetically arranged letters, there are also groups of letters on specific topics featuring many of the same correspondents. Letters may also be found with writings and research notes elsewhere in the collection.

The correspondence spans the years 1872-1941, however, the earliest dated letter to or from James or Lilly is dated January 1888. There are a limited number of letters from this early period. Many letters addressed to Lilly concern business related to James’ works, and some letters written in the late 1930s are addressed to her to be read aloud to him due to his increasing blindness.

Anthropologists appearing in the collection include L. C. G. Clarke, Edward Clodd, A. C. Haddon, J. H. Hutton, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Bronisław Malinowski, R. R. Marett, John Roscoe, and Sir Grafton Elliot Smith. There are only three letters from Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, but 16 from his daughter Dorothy Young. Classical scholars in the collection include A. B. Cook, F. M. Cornford, A. E. Housman, J. P. Postgate, Sir William Ridgeway, and H. J. Rose. Principal editors and publishers in the collection include James Loeb, George Macmillan, T. E. Page, and W. H. D. Rouse. Other principal correspondents are David Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres; and Sir Joseph Thomson and his wife Rose Thomson. Many of Lilly's correspondents write to her in her native French. Her principal correspondents include François Ceccaldi (many of them written from his native Corsica), Noémi Psichari, the daughter of Ernest Renan; translator Pierre Sayn, and James’ friend W. J. Lewis.

Writings by Sir James Frazer comprise 21 boxes, with additional writings to be found in the notebooks in FRAZ/35. The work represented by the most amount of material in the collection is Frazer’s edition of Ovid’s 'Fasti', published by Macmillan in 1929, and by Loeb in 1931. The papers do not include notes for the preparation of the original 'Golden Bough' nor do they include the manuscript. There are, however, three notebooks containing notes relating to the second and third editions (FRAZ/35/9-11). Frazer’s own copies of the different editions of 'The Golden Bough' are housed separately in the printed books Adversaria collection and carry numerous annotations.

Printed material consists of press cuttings, pamphlets, offprints, and small books. An album of cuttings of reviews of the first edition of 'The Golden Bough' may be found at FRAZ/22/4. Ten small books and pamphlets have also been catalogued into the Trinity Library printed materials catalogue but remain housed with the papers. The music manuscripts are housed in FRAZ/8 and consist of scores composed by Stuart Young setting Sir James’ poems to music. Margaret Rose’s operetta libretto based on Lady Frazer’s story 'The Singing Wood' was similarly set to music (the libretto at FRAZ/32/266 and the score FRAZ/8/1/5).

The travel diaries and many of the notebooks were previously housed on Trinity College Library shelves with printed books and have been reunited with the collection, along with 13 volumes and a small number of loose notes returned from the Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology. The photographs in the collection include 16 photographic prints of sites in Greece possibly taken by Sidney George Owen, two of them dated June 1906 (FRAZ/21/67-82).

Albemarle Club - Congratulates Cook on his 'Zeus: a Study in Ancient Religion', admires his style and lucidity of argument, approves his decision to avoid questions of ethnology, informs him that he has recanted his position of Zeus as the god of the oak.

Trinity College - Praises Cook's work and asks him to dine in hall on Invitation Night.

24 Abercromby Square, London - Discusses etymology of 'viribius' and Cook's theory that the leaves are verbena. Tells Cook that he is moving back to Cambridge and is reading the Old Testament in Hebrew.

Trinity College - Asks Cook to tea to discuss his review of the second edition of 'The Golden Bough'.

Trinity College - Thanks Cook [for his critical review of the second edition of 'The Golden Bough'], asks if he would look over his revised theory, is forwarding two letters from Baldwin Spencer on the question of the Australian Daramulum [not present] and one from Miss Burne, editor of 'Folk-lore' relating to the Murra-murra among the Dieri [not present].

Oxford, 18 Bradmore Road - She has been unwell; saw the Maretts and would like to give a lunch or dinner in the Frazers' honour at All Souls when they visit; has received the Frazer lectures volume; cannot attend the Doumergue dinner but thinks he is a good representative of France; has read of the successful Frazer conferences; her husband is writing an article on English universities; the French Club at Oxford invited Yvonne Arnaud, but she did not appear and a Mrs [Lucie?] Zimmern spoke in her place, advising the female students to do petit point and her husband, who objects when she pays attention to fashion, thought it a good talk.

20 pp. diary kept from 10 Dec. 1900 to 28 Feb. 1901 listing J. G. and Lilly Frazer's movements in Rome: places visited, and people seen, including [Giacomo] Boni, Wickham Steed and Madame [Clémence] Rose, Professor and Mrs [William] James, R. A. Neil, and A. E. Shipley. J. G. Frazer makes notes from a meeting on 16 Jan. with Miss Roma Lister, who gathered Italian folklore from peasants, and mentions her colleague C. G. Leland. On 19 Jan. he makes notes from a meeting with Dr [F. H.?] Burton-Brown, who lived amongst the Naga tribes in Assam. On 31 Jan. he describes an expedition to Nemi. On 27 Feb. he leaves Rome for Perugia. At the back of the volume are 2 1/2 pages of a bibliography of anthropological works, and two page list of 'Books Lent' from 1894-1905, to F. M Cornford, W. Ridgeway, A. B. Cook, W. H. D. Rouse, Miss [Aelfrida?] Tillyard, S. A. Cook, A. A. Bevan, and Prof. C. Bendall. This is followed by a short list of 'Ovid. Books to be Kept, Sept. 1928'.

18 Park Lane W.1. - Wishes them a happy new year; spent Christmas at 'Oldlands' with Bernard, who then left for the Sudan for his work there; will go to Egypt on through Africa, meeting with Bernard halfway through.

Items originally assigned numbers 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].

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks her, but doesn't deserve her thanks any more than the rest of the Council.

Le Petit Parisien, London Offices - Details the steps he has taken to ensure the spread of Frazer's article, 'Our Debt to France' to newspapers in France.

52 Montagu Square, W.1. - Congratulates Frazer, agrees with the 'Times' on the importance of 'The Golden Bough': 'No single investigator since Darwin has done so much to enlarge men's thoughts and to give him a new orientation'.

6 Oppidans Road, N.W.3. - Thanks him for the nice note about his review of Frazer's 'Fasti'; is glad he enjoyed the Westermarck dinner, is very fond of Westermarck.

Cavendish Corner, Cambridge - Thanks her for her good wishes, sends her own, expects Lilly will rejoice much more than does Sir James.

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse - Thanks her for the 'News'; has received a letter from [the photography company] Lafayette, and approves the portrait that will be the frontispiece [to "The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar"], believes those who see it will not know his age and infirmity.

University of London, University College - Makes arrangements for a small dinner in Frazer's honour at the time of Frazer's lectures at the end of the month.

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.

Bound volume with an early manuscript draft, in Frazer’s hand, of a speech on receiving the doctorate from the Université de Paris; followed by a list of Paris Hotels; followed by an early draft of the speech on the Centenary of Ernest Renan. With notes on the specifications of Lanfine [the house the Frazers built in Cambridge in 1923] on the verso of the first two leaves.

Five original poems by Frazer and two translations of poems by Heine. There are three copies of "Dreams": a manuscript in Lady Frazer's hand, a fair copy, and a typescript copy. There is a fair copy, corrected of "And the reapers bind their sheaves", a fair copy, corrected, and typescript of "Whispers of the Nile"; a typescript, corrected with the date of 11 June 1921 of "To My Wife"; a typescript with date 1936 of "The Keys of Janus' Temple", accompanied by an envelope; and fair copies, corrected, and typescript of a translation of two poems from Heine, "Du bist wie eine Blume" and "Wo?"

1/5 Premchand Boral Street, Bowbazar, Post Office, Calcutta - The third volume of 'The Mysore Tribes and Castes' is published and a copy will be sent to him; asks him to give his opinion on the second and third volumes and the volume on Syrian Christians so that he may send a copy to His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore.

Accompanied by the envelope redirected from Trinity College to Goldsmith Buildings, Temple, London.

The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London - Asks Frazer to give a Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on his work on Ovid in the spring.