Série 56 - Letters (A-F) to Sir James George Frazer

Zone d'identification

Cote

Add. MS c/56

Titre

Letters (A-F) to Sir James George Frazer

Date(s)

  • 1886-1928 (Production)

Niveau de description

Série

Étendue matérielle et support

1 box

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

(1854-1941)

Notice biographique

Frazer was born 1 January 1854 in Glasgow, and after graduating MA in 1874 from the University of Glasgow, entered Trinity College with a scholarship. He was Second Classic in 1878, and a year later was made a Fellow of the College on the strength of hisread more

Histoire archivistique

In February 1941, Sir James and Lady Frazer loaned their assistant Robert A. Downie a group of letters in order that he might interest a publisher in a volume of letters. When the Frazers died in May, 1941 Downie still had the letters but no publisher.read more

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

The seven boxes which comprise ADD.Ms.c.56-61 contain over 530 letters written to Sir James George Frazer, arranged by surname of correspondent. The letters date from 1886 to 1955, but the bulk date from 1900 to 1920, earlier than the closely related Sirread more

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Language of material

  • anglais
  • français
  • allemand
  • latin

Zone des sources complémentaires

Existence and location of copies

Only one of these letters is represented by a typescript copy. It is ADD.Ms.c.56/93, represented by a copy at ADD.Ms.b.37/230.

Related units of description

The main papers bequeathed by Lady Frazer on her death in 1941 are catalogued as The Papers of Sir James George Frazer, FRAZ 1-35. Typescripts of some of the letters here (ADD.Ms.c.56-61) were given to Trinity College Library in 1955, and are cataloguedread more

Zone des notes

Note

The letters are accompanied by envelopes docketed in Frazer's hand, and by an index to the Letters of Sir James Frazer made by R. A. Downie in two green paperbound notebooks, using the precis created by Frazer on envelopes of letters. These contain aread more