73 Grange Road, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer and notes that the honour must be of intense satisfaction to Lady Frazer.
17 Learmonth Gardens, Edinburgh - Congratulates Frazer, is only sorry that their friend J. S. B. [John Sutherland Black] was not there to see it and witness the 'universal chorus of approbation with which the announcement has been received'.
Trinity College, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer; they drank to the three: Frazer, Rutherford and Hopkins, in the Combination Room the night before.
3 Belford Park, Edinburgh - Congratulates Frazer; wonders if he has read anything by Lord Dunsany, he has read 'The King of Elfland's Daughter' and '[The Chronicles of] Rodriguez': both make use of magic.
Longfield, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer.
2 Cloisters, Temple, E.C. - Congratulates Frazer.
13 Greenhill Terrace, Edinburgh, Sunday 4 or 5 Jan 1925 - Congratulates the Frazers.
Lysmore, West Road, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer.
45 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, N.W.3. - Congratulates Frazer.
3 Sumner Place, S.W.7. - Congratulates Frazer, asks that he not think of answering, as he has 'other than purely personal reasons for hoping you may escape writer's cramp'. [The letter is marked with a red cross at top, indicating it was answered.]
25 Chester Street, Edinburgh - Congratulates the Frazers.
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum - Congratulates Frazer, and notes that the Society feels special satisfaction that the O.M. is conferred on a scholar who approaches antiquity 'so largely from the side of archaeology, in all its branches'.
The Victoria, University of Manchester - Congratulates Frazer.
Trinity Lodge - Has been hoping to see him in person but as he has not he writes his congratulations; finds the award thoroughly well-deserved, and is pleased for the Trinity: 'I do not think any College ever had a day like we had on New Years day when our Fellows got two O.M.'s and a Knighthood'. Accompanied by the envelope.
Pen Rose, Berkhamsted - Congratulates Frazer: 'Trinity seems to be making a corner in O.M.s.'.
Far End, East Preston, Sussex - 'You have so many honours that panting congratulation crawls after you in vain.' Wishes them a happy new year, and like many others, suggests he not bother to reply.
Corrected draft of a lecture given at the Royal Institution on 31 May 1921; with footnotes.
Accompanied by a letter from F. Pollock to Frazer, 10 May 1920, laid in between pages 42-43 of the manuscript. Pollock writes from 21 Hyde Park Place, W.2., summarising William Somervile's account of hunting and trapping foxes in 'The Chace', and concluding that Somervile's tone suggests that in the second quarter of the 18th century it was 'not yet sacrilege to kill a fox otherwise than with the proper hunting ritual'.
Manuscript draft with corrections, signed by Anatole France.
5 loose cuttings and 11 complete issues of newspapers or magazines, all but one of the complete issues published in France or Switzerland. Accompanied by two pages of rubbings of writing in an unidentified alphabet (FRAZ/7/1/5).
A review of 'Adonis'.
'Times Literary Supplement' no. 1670.
No. 15826 of 'L'Écho de Paris'.
No. 51 of 'La Renaissance'. Marked up for printing [in 'The Gorgon's Head'], with an added note by Frazer that the discourse [at the Sorbonne 5 Dec. 1921] was written as well as spoken in French: it is not a translation.
40 cuttings, most of them relating to 'The Fear of the Dead', both before publication, with headlines such as 'New Book a Mystery' and 'Writer on Savages But Has Never Seen One', and reviews of the book, including one illustrated article from the 'Illustrated London News' of 25 Apr. 1936 and a review by R. R. Marett in 'The Quarterly Review' July 1936. There are also cuttings about Frazer dated 1936 unrelated to the book, a review by Wickham Steed of 'Totemism & Exogamy' in 'The Observer' of 16 Feb. 1936, and a typed page of extracts from T. K. Penniman's 'A Hundred Years of Anthropology'.
3 cuttings, two of them announcing the forthcoming 'Anthologia Anthropologica. The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar', and one of them reproducing a portrait of Frazer by Rothenstein as the Portrait of the Week in the 'Illustrated Weekly of India'.
Poem by J. G. Frazer set to music by Stuart Young, with parts for voice and piano.
Poem by J. G. Frazer set to music by Stuart Young, with parts for voice, piano, and violin.
Poem by J. G. Frazer set to music by Stuart Young, with parts for voice and piano.
Poem signed J. G. F. [Written for Lady Frazer's 65th birthday?] 27 copies.
16 printed items, including articles, offprints, and pamphlets by, about or mentioning Frazer. With two partial sets of unbound proof sheets of books translated by Lady Frazer: the abridged 'Rameau d'or' and Aulard's 'Christianity and the French Revolution.'