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FRAZ/1 · Série · 1888-1940
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

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).

FRAZ/1/4 · Item · 21 Jan. 1888
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

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.'

FRAZ/1/6 · Item · 6 Nov. 1891
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

Trinity College, Cambridge - Informs Butler that Warde Fowler has found a mistranslation of Pliny in a central argument in 'The Golden Bough', and Frazer suggests the fellowship committee should be informed and his fellowship re-evaluated in light of the new information. Accompanied by the envelope and photographs of the letter, mounted on two sheets.

FRAZ/1/8 · Item · 1 Mar. 1895
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

Trinity College, Cambridge - Is happy to hear his fellowship has been renewed and asks him to thank the Council; regrets that his Pausanias is not yet printed, but the first two are in press at the moment, and when it is done, he has other books to write, for which the material is partly collected.

FRAZ/1/16 · Item · 2 June 1900
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - In letter of 2 June, Frazer asks Butler to sign some enclosed memorials to the Australian government about some anthropological work and has received a letter from Mr [Francis?] Galton, who had just returned from Greece and heard 'a graphic account of my first (alas! it will not be my last) journey to the Styx.'

FRAZ/1/19 · Item · 16 Mar. 1901
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - Does not expect Butler to read all three volumes [of 'The Golden Bough']: 'I quite understand that to many minds the descriptions of foolish and absurd customs which make up the bulk of the book may be tedious and even painful'; had a happy winter in Rome, but had to cut short their visit to return because their tenant left their house in Cambridge early.

Letter from J. G. Frazer to William James Lewis
FRAZ/1/28 · Item · 28 Dec. 1919
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

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'.

FRAZ/1/17 · Item · 6 June 1900
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - Writes concerning the memorials he had sent Butler [to the Australian government concerning some anthropological work] and says that if Butler has any reservations Frazer will not use his name; [Francis?] Galton has already declined.

Letter from J. G. Frazer to William James Lewis
FRAZ/1/29 · Item · 7 Feb. 1923
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

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.

Letter from J. G Frazer to William James Lewis
FRAZ/1/23 · Item · 24 June 1905
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

Trinity College - Acknowledges congratulations from Lewis. Refers to the role their mutual friend Mrs Browne had in hiring his wife Lilly Frazer to teach at the Girls’ High School in Liverpool, with the story of her first day there.

FRAZ/1/18 · Item · 8 June 1900
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - Thanks him for his letter giving his permission to use his name on the memorial [to the Australian government on preserving the anthropological record of 'primitive men now left on the globe']; other signatories are Professors [Sir Richard] Jebb, [Frederic?] Maitland, [Charles] Waldstein [later Walston], [James?] Ward, [Henry Francis?] Pelham, Andrew Lang, Henry Jackson, and James Bryce, and of Cambridge science men, [Sir Michael?] Foster, [Alfred?] Newton, [Sir Francis?] Darwin, [John Newport] Langley, [Adam?] Sedgwick.