Series 29 - Letters (A-Y) to Sir James George Frazer

1 box

FRAZ/29 consists of one box of 114 letters, most of them addressed to J. G. Frazer. The letters span the dates 1872-1940, the bulk dating from the 1920s and 1930s, and primarily concern J. G. Frazer's works and related personal business. Over a third of the letters are written in French. The alphabetic sequence is limited to one box, with some previously unidentified letters filed at the end, along with one letter that remains unidentified. There are five typed copies of letters from J. G. Frazer to five correspondents, dated 1937 and 1938, when he was using the services of a secretary (Items 24-28). The earliest letters here are two letters from Archbishop Luigi Josef Puecher Passavalli to Emilie Hyacinthe-Loyson and an unidentified person, dated 13 and 17 April 1872 (Items 52-53). It is unclear how they came into the Frazers' possession, though the letter filed directly before, from Frédéric Passy to Abbé [Breuil] makes reference to Hyacinthe Loyson's letters.

Items 112-114 have been removed: they were catalogued with the Frazer papers initially in error, they are are part of the Papers of Sir Walter Greg, GREG 1/196-198, three postcards from [J. S.?] to W. W. Greg, dated 1939-[1942].