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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.

La Haule Manor, Jersey - Will not make 'any more fuss' [about the proposed omission of his lecture from the Frazer Lectures volume], go ahead with publication as they like, though the omission of his lecture might make future lecturers disinclined to publish; has not liked how things were done behind his back, if there was a letter, it must have gone astray, and J. G. has not said a word; returns Elliot Smith's letter [which asks that the lecture be published, FRAZ/3/117], which is 'quite sporting'; would say it again, and [Thomas Athol?] Joyce bought many copies to distribute in America; they should tell Dawson to return to the job; offers congratulations on the Glasgow appointment.

Institute of Anatomy, University College, London - Thanks her for writing to him concerning the republication of Marett's Frazer Lecture; while Marett's phraseology suggests he was discourteous to Frazer; believes that strongly held opinions should never express personal resentment; admires Frazer; is glad to hear eye troubles are being overcome. With a note that he would be glad to alter this statement if she wishes.

Ambassade de France à Londres - Congratulates him on the award of the Legion d'honneur; arranges to meet. Accompanied by the envelope, on which is written 'Ambassade. De Fleuriau, Dette'.

Kingham, Oxford - Thanks him for sending him 'Sir Roger de Coverley'; proposes a trip to Cambridge in the summer with his sisters; father told him he ought to go to Sidney Sussex, following an ancestor, but went to Lincoln instead, a good place that helped him grow up and where he met Scotchmen for the first time. Accompanied by the envelope.

9 Lansdowne Road, Holland Park, W.11. - Mr Meek came to see him and Gardiner was interested in his account of the Jukun people, the king's position is analogous to Osiris; they share with Egyptians the rite de sortie of removing footprints but the spirit of the ritual is very different; thanks him for introducing them; cannot accept his invitation to dinner on the 31st but wishes him a happy birthday. Accompanied by an envelope with notes by Frazer.

10 Royal Crescent, Bath - Will be happy to see Peter Mackie in the afternoon, is working on 'Novissima Verba' and a new edition of 'The Calendar of Great Men'; would have liked to meet Sir James in Bath, was just reading his latest book with his daughter.

Musée Pédagogique, Paris - M. Herr has given her his news and he thanks her for her sympathy and help during his illness; he had pulmonary congestion; no news from Sayn; La librarie de France sent him her book.
Accompanied by the cutting of an obituary of Albert Houtin from 'The Inquirer' London of 7 Aug. 1926, which quotes Frazer's 'Times' obituary.

Kohima, Naga Hills, Assam - Encloses typescript 'Treatment of the Dead at Karawi' for his volume on the belief in immortality, as it is different from that of most Nagas; also encloses articles of his which appeared in 'Man in India' [not present]; is back from a tour across country never before visited or only by Woodthorpe, is passing his photographs to Balfour and hopes for publication; in a postscript, he passes along a reference to the Karen version of the fall of man in MacMahon's 'The Karens of the Golden Chersonese'. Accompanied by two photographs: one identified as Furniture of the Dead from [Karasira?], the other a Pangkhul grave with soul house behind.

Accompanied by the envelope.

Institut français d'anthropologie - Announces that the Institute has made him a membre d'honneur.

Accompanied by the envelope.

95 Gower Street - Has been in Wales; the offer [to write the introduction to 'Fleurs de France: poésies lyriques depuis le romantisme'?] is a great honour and he will gladly undertake it; is leaving for the Douglas Hotel, Brodrick for three weeks.

Accompanied by the envelope redirected from No. 1 Brick Court, Temple to Cox's Hotel, Jermyn Street, St James' S.W.1. with note 'W. P. Ker, French anthology' in Frazer's hand at top.

Department of Oriental Printed Books & Mss., British Museum - Wonders if Frazer could refer him to works in which the desire to avoid being counted amongst primitive races is discussed; mentions the mixing of numbered masculine nouns mixed with feminine form of the numeral and vice versa in Hebrew as a possible form of avoiding the 'Evil Eye'.

Houghton, Huntington - Says he will be very happy if the Frazers could visit, and could take them on the river; he ran an experimental rationalist school and now has all his savings in a fruit farm, which he warns against; is very happy in that part of England; Frazer has done the biggest work since Darwin. Pages of the letter are numbered, but missing pages 5-6, or the last sheet is misnumbered; on them he thanks Frazer for a book; a landlady born c 1802 used to ornament her hearth and threshold with scrolls with a kind of rune inside, which 'kept bad things out'.

Manse of Rickarton, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire - Is studying the survival of belief in the northeast of Scotland and asks about the Scottish tradition of the burry man and the miller's bridle and their resemblance to other customs.

Small Downs House, Sandwich - Thanks him for the contribution of a little book for the Queen Mary's dolls' house library ['The Reading of the Bible']; regrets that she cannot accept Lady Frazer's offer of a book as they are excluding foreign literature from the library.

Accompanied by the envelope, redirected from Trinity College to c/o Barclay's Bank, Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells.

Association Guillaume Budé, 157 Boul. Saint-Germain, Paris - Announces he has been proposed, with Rudyard Kipling, as docteur honoris causa of the Université de Paris; it is not yet official and he should consider the communication confidential.

Two copies of a typescript speech, corrected [identical to FRAZ/25/47].

Imperial Hotel, Barnstaple - Has just returned from an expedition and found her letter announcing Frazer's election to the Royal Society under special circumstances which enhance the honour; are in Devonshire for the first holiday they've had in two years; it will not be possible to meet her in Caius College and can't help her 'with the design you have in hand'.

Accompanied by the envelope.