(Letterpress, with a woodcut by an unknown hand.)
Simply "with many thanks" on letterhead of Hotel Rembrandt, South Kensington, SW.
Hotel de Gresley, Fisherman's Walk, Bournemouth -- Sends him a manuscript of her husband's which one of his pupils had returned to her.
Material for Gaskell's book published in Oxford by the Clarendon Press, 1978, organised by Gaskell into folders mirroring the chapters in the book: introduction and theory, Harington, Milton, Richardson, Swift, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Hardy, Joyce, Stoppard, and photographs.
Correspondence and papers relating to John Baskerville: a Bibliography, papers relating to his article 'Lay of the Case' in Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia vol. 22, 1969; papers relating to a checklist of early stereotype books; papers relating to frisket fragments for red printing; a photograph album for 'A Census of Wooden Presses'; a typescript and offprint of 'The Principles and Problems of Cataloguing Early Books in Research Libraries' with a French translation and offprint from the Association de l'Ecole Nationale Superieure de Bibliothecaires, 1976; photomechanical copies of early printers proofs; and a bound typescript of 'Secret Lives', dated 1990.
Catalogue of Gaskell's personal library sold to Keio University, Tokyo dated 1986 with photographs of the Gaskell Collection in Keio University dated 1997 and a list of books by William Mason given to King's College Library in 1957.
Papers relating to psychical research and other occult subjects, the Perrott Fellowship, the Arthur Stanley Eddington Memorial Lecture, and the Swedish language, with group photographs relating to Dulwich College.
Sin títuloThe papers primarily consist of mathematical notes on differential geometry, and are accompanied by a small group of printed pamphlets and correspondence.
Sin títuloNumbered "II" at top right.
Numbered "I" at top right.
Numbered "VI" at top right.
Reporting on Redpath's lecture on Hamlet and Ophelia at a British Council conference in Naples.
Drafts of lectures given over several decades, showing later revisions and changes of order of presentation, later mined for a proposed book of essays on the same subject. Some original lecture scripts may be found with the drafts for the book of essays, marked up for printing.
Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Oxford - Thanks her for her letter, they have received the manuscript [of 'The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory']; Macmillan could borrow it if they need it before it officially becomes Bodleian property; any part of it could be photographed by the Clarendon Press; is sending her letter on to the President of Magdalen as she requests.
British Museum, London, W.C.1. - Thanks him for the gift of 55 notebooks.
Accompanied by an envelope with note "British Museum Letter w/ 55 Notebooks, and 2 Letters of Mr Downie dealing with 'Letters'. Museum".
Westroad Corner, Cambridge - Shares a reference from Gibbon about the sacrifice of a goat which was also worshipped; Miles has a post at Cambridge.
Accompanied by an envelope redirected from Queen Anne's Mansions to Hotel Lutetia, Boulevard Raspail, Paris.
19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Notes Frazer was the one who first encouraged him to write a book on Zeus, and now sends him the third volume; feels scholarship is 'one of the few remaining bonds which still unite all civilised nations'; apologises for being an unsociable hermit while finishing the book, knows Frazer understands. Accompanied by the envelope.
7 Audley Square, W.1. [on mourning stationery] - Is looking forward to 10 November when Frazer and others receive honorary degrees on the occasion of his installation as Chancellor of the University of Manchester; invites him to stay that weekend, with a postscript assuring Lady Frazer of a warm welcome from his wife. Accompanied by the envelope.
Les Petites Dalles, Seine [Mtme?] Villa Berthe - Would be happy to write the preface to the French translation of Frazer's Pausanias; asks him to please thank Lady Frazer for the review of 'Apollodorus', started to read this book right before leaving Paris for Normandy; is happy they will return to France before the end of the year. Accompanied by the envelope.
FRAZ/17 is the second of two boxes (FRAZ/16-17) forming an alphabetic sequence of letters addressed to J. G. Frazer and Lilly Frazer. A fuller description of these letters may be found in the scope and content note for FRAZ/16.
49 Palace Mansions, W.14. - Asks permission to dedicate 'The Bridle of Pegasus' to him.
28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13 - Agrees that R. R. Marett's lecture should be omitted from the Frazer Lecture volume, as it could not be edited, being 'from beginning to end an attack upon Prof. Elliot Smith' would not like to revive a controversy now forgotten; asks her to write to Marett; encloses his copy of the lecture [not present].
28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13 - Half sheet of paper of the beginning of a letter about the Frazer lectures volume: material is almost ready for the printer; Moret's lecture took a long time as he verified all the references; shall not abridge Malinowski's essay as it should be done by him and he is away; will add a note that some lectures are longer because they were worked up into book form.
28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13. - Thanks her for her letter and parcel, with the Ovid [Fasti] and the Mensch ['Mensch, Gott und Unsterblichkeit'?], and portrait of Frazer [for the Frazer Lectures volume]; Perry is away and Elliot Smith has suggested that the substance of the lecture was in a book published soon after; will give everything else to Macmillan and add Perry's lecture later.
28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13. - Has received a photograph of Sir James from W. E. Lake [for the book of Frazer Lectures] and has sent it to Macmillan; has also received Perry's letter of the 8th; asks if she would like to see the specimen page when it arrives.
28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13. - Will send her the specimen page [for the Frazer Lectures volume]; is pleased to hear Frazer's eyesight is improving; thanks her for the offer of a signed photograph of Frazer; has filed Malinowski's letter with the others; asks how to get the Pausanias and "Garnered Sheaves" at the discount she mentioned; still busy with the Napoleonic period volume, is also writing a biography of Charles Wycliffe Goodwin; encloses a rough draft of the title page for her approval.