Series 57 - Letters (G) to Sir James George Frazer

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS c/57

Title

Letters (G) to Sir James George Frazer

Date(s)

  • 1887-1930 (Creation)

Level of description

Series

Extent and medium

1 box

Context area

Name of creator

(1854-1941)

Biographical history

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

Archival history

See archival history note for ADD.Ms.c.56.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

ADD.Ms.c.57 is part of a group, ADD.Ms.c.56-61, which contain over 530 letters written to Sir James George Frazer, arranged by surname of correspondent. A full description of the group may be found in the scope and content note for ADD.Ms.c.56.

ADD.Ms.c.read more

Conditions of access and use area

Language of material

  • Ancient Greek
  • English
  • French

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Two-thirds of the letters are represented by typescript copies, housed as Add.Ms.b.35.331-389. A link in the record connects the records for the original and copies. Item 31, described in the scope and content note above, is lacking the letter that isread more

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

Notes area

Note

The letters are accompanied by envelopes docketed in Frazer's hand. Some of the letters are keyed (by means of numbers in pencil) to two notebooks accompanying the collection, 'Index of Letters to Sir James Frazer Part I [and II]', made by R. A. Downie,read more