9 Esplanade, Lowestoft - Sends detailed instructions to the use of a hanging desk to enable an invalid to read in bed, which he and Mrs Blakesley have devised for him.
Card with MS addresses.
Item 84 refers to the letters she is sending Cordelia: by Hannah More (Add.MS.c.66/5), from Fanny Kemble (Item 87), John Mitchell Kemble (Item 88), and Sheridan Knowles (Item 91).
Item 85 refers to letters she is sending Cordelia from Thomas Rennell (Add.MS.c.66/28), Shute Barrington (Item 8), and from Isabella Wolff (Add.MS.c.66/76).
Letter in a clerk's hand, signed by La Vrillière.
Letters dated 25 Oct. [1858] - 1 Mar. 1859.
Burnhill, James Street, Dalry, Ayrshire [on mourning stationery] - Announces the death of her husband [Thomas] from a burst appendix.
Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, Secretary General's Offices, VIII., Golden Square, London, W. - Asks for an explanation of the Gypsy custom of placing a bit of sod under the pillow of a dying person.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh - Has a portrait said to be of the last Earl of Kilmarnock bequeathed by Miss Brown; asks for information on the connection between the Boyd family and the Browns, as he understands Frazer possesses memoranda relating to the Lanfine family.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - Concerning the translation of Paul Couchoud's 'L'Énigme de Jésus': Mrs Whale has agreed to translate it and the Rationalist Press Association will publish it if Frazer will write the introduction.
Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk [dictated to his wife Phyllis] - Is glad to hear that all went well [at the gathering in Frazer's honour in the Old Combination Room at Trinity College] and that they included Theodore Morison, wishes them good luck on the trip to Switzerland, his recovery is a tedious business.