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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)DA21/1/1/21
TitleTwins
Extent1 volume; 337 items
Date1903-1922
DescriptionScrapbook kept by James Rendel Harris containing research notes relating to twins, including correspondence, photographs, and typescript and handwritten notes. All letters are written to James Rendel Harris, unless otherwise stated:
/1 Loose, typed list of questions entitled 'Questions about the Twins and Thunder', nd
/2-/3 Photographs
/4 Letter from H Stuart Jones [Director of the British School of Rome], 1903
/5 handwritten notes taken by James Rendel Harris from 'Anthropos', French, 1908
/6 Letter from Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare [scholar, expert on Armenia], 1904
/7 part of an article describing puiism or sorcery and twin killing in British Guiana, 1903 or later
/8 Cutting from the Daily News, reporting on the killing of a twin and his mother in British Guiana, 1903
/9 Cutting from the Cambridge University Reporter summarising papers read at a meeting of the Cambridge Philological Society, 1903
/10 Letter from Claude Hermann Walter Johns [master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and canon of Norwich], nd
/11 Letter from James Hope Moulton [Principal, Didsbury College, Manchester], 1905
/12 Letter from ?James ?Wills [Oxford], nd
/13 Memo from David Nutt, 1903
/14 Letter from Terrot Reaveley Glover [classical scholar and historian, lecturer in Ancient History at Cambridge], 1903
/15 Letter from Walter William Skeat [philologist, Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge], 1904
/16 Letter from J Skinner [Westminster College, Cambridge], 1905
/17 Letter from James Hope Moulton, 1905
/18 Letter from the Bishop of Salford, nd
/19 Handwritten notes made by James Rendel Harris, Ancient Greek and Latin, nd
/20 Letter from Michael M [British Guiana], 1904
/21 Letter from JAH Murray [Editor, Oxford English Dictionary], 1904
/22, /24-/26 Various notes to James Rendel Harris from Terrot Reaveley Glover discussing twins in Green and Roman literature, some Ancient Greek, 1905
/23 Letter from Hector Munro Chadwick [Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge], nd
/27 Letter from William Walter Skeat, 1904
/28 Letter from WM Ramsay [Aberdeen], 1905
/29 Postcard, author unknown, quoting Aeneas Sylvius and Jerome of Prague, some Latin, nd
/30 Postcard from Terrot Reaveley Glover, some Ancient Greek, nd
/31-/33 Postcards from Hector Munro Chadwick, nd
/34-/35 Letter and postcard from Hector Munro Chadwick, nd
/36 Handwritten note made by James Rendel Harris of a Scottish legend about twins, nd
/37 Letter from TJ ?Dashian [Vienna], German, 1905
/38 Handwritten note made by James Rendel Harris, nd
/39 Offprint of a lecture by Agnes Smith Lewis [biblical scholar, orientalist, and traveller] entitled 'The Kinsmen of Our Lord', 1905
/40 Article by St Clair Baddeley entitled 'Aesculapius and Christian Rome', 1907
/41 Press cutting of a review by W Soltau of Karl Jaisle's 'Die Dioskuren als Retter zur See bei Griechen und Romern und ihr Fortleben in christlichen Legenden', German, 1910
/42 Article by Hugo Winckler entitled 'Die Arier in den Urkunden von Boghaz-koi', German, 1910
/43 Letter from FG Montagu Powell, 1909
/44 Letter from Ernest A Wallis Budge [Assyriologist and Egyptologist, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum] to FG Montagu Powell, 1909
/45 Note made by James Rendel Harris on Scottish folklore, nd
/46 Postcard from Terrot Reaveley Glover, some Greek and Latin, nd
/47 Letter from Kirsopp Lake, nd
/48 Letter from FG Montagu Powell, 1909
/49 Cutting from the Morning Leader, relating to superstitions connected with twins, 1910
/50 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris re Castor and Pollux, some Ancient Greek, nd
/51-/52 Letters from William Charles Braithwaite [President, Woodbrooke Council, barrister and Biblical scholar], nd and 1909
/53 Newspaper cutting reporting on an eruption of Vesuvius, and the destruction of a church which stood on the site of a temple dedicated to Castor and Pollux, nd
/54 Letter, no signature, written from Adult School Hostel, Uffculme, Moor Green, Birmingham, 1911
/55-/56 Letters from Fritz Krenkow [Arabic scholar], 1910 and 1911
/57 (loose, inside /56) postcard, translation, by Fritz Krenkow, of part of an Arabic poem about woodpeckers, nd
/58 Letter from William Charles Braithwaite, 1906
/59 Postcard from James Hope Moulton, 1906
/60-/61 Letters from Fritz Krenkow, 1911
/62 Translation, by Fritz Krenkow, of an Arabic text about woodpeckers, nd
/63 Letter from James Hope Moulton, 1906
/64-/65 Letters from Edward Ernest Kellett [literary critic and author, Senior English Master at Leys, Cambridge], 1906
/66 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris of a reference to Boanerges in the Oxford Bible for Teachers, nd
/67 Pamphlet - translation of a Siamese Pali text by Albert J Edmunds [Philadelphia] entitled 'The Marvellous Birth of the Buddhas', 1903
/68 Exercise book - translation by Fritz Krenkow of an Arabic text about woodpeckers, nd
/69-/70 Letters from Edward Ernest Kellett, 1906
/71 Postcard from Terrot Reaveley Glover, 1906
/72 Postcard entitled 'Raijin in Sanjiusangendo, Kyoto', nd
/73 Photograph of a picture of an evil spirit, nd
/74 Photograph of a page of an early printed book, Latin, nd
/75 Letter from Edward Ernest Kellett, 1906
/76 Letter from Terrot Reaveley Glover, 1906
/77 Letter from JGF, nd
/78 Letter from W Westerley [Hatch End, London], 1906
/79 Letter from EC Girling [missionary in Belgian Congo, Africa], 1912
/80 Letter from HF Standing, 1912
/81 Article by Julius Boehmer entitled 'Boane-rges', German, 1912
/82 Letter from HA Sander [Ann Arbor, Michigan], nd
/83 Postcard from HMC, nd
/84-/85 Letters from James Hope Moulton, 1912
/86-/88 Letters from Edward Ernest Kellett, 1906
/89-/93 Letter, photographs, and press cutting relating to the killing of twin children by the Matabele people of Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 1911
/94 Letter from Arthur Bernard Cooke [classical scholar and archaeologist], 1906
/95 Postcard from Lilla Jacobsen [Woodbrooke student], nd
/96 Handwritten made by James Rendel Harris concerning a book called 'The Rival Twins', nd
/97 Letter from R Wills, partly in French, 1912
/98 Note, unsigned, of a passage from 'Modern Egypt' by Cromer, nd
/99 Letter from Beatrice Chambers [Fishguard], nd
/100 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris entitled 'The Magi in Norway', nd
/101 Letter from Edward Ernest Kellett, 1906
/102 Letter from Lilla Jacobson, 1910
/103 Letter from Gianni Pioli, regarding publication of an Italian translation of 'your last work on the Twins', nd
/104 Note, unsigned, discussing the derivation of skip or skep, nd
/105 Letter from Edward Ernest Kellett, 1906
/106 Letter from William Charles Braithwaite, 1906
/107 Postcard from Terrot Reaveley Glover, nd
/108 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris concerning the Discouri, nd
/109 Note by James Hope Moulton, Ancient Greek, nd
/110-/111 Letters from John Skinner, 1906
/112 Letter from David Nutt [Shaftesbury Avenue, London], 1912
/113 Note made by James Rendel Harris of references to 'correspondence between Abgar and Jesus', nd
/114 Letter from Edward Ernest Kellett, 1906
/115 Press cutting of a letter from C Wierz [St James's Presbytery, Pendleton], published in the Manchester Guardian, 1909
/116 Letter from Louis Dyer, 1906
/117-/121 Letters from Fritz Krenkow, 1912
/122 Letter from Margaret D Gibson [biblical scholar, orientalist, and traveller], 1912
/123 Letter from Edith G Sonnenschein [wife of Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, Professor of Latin and Greek, University of Birmingham], 1913
/124 Letter from ?Sverre ?Hoeiu, [probably Norwegian student], 1913
/125 Letter from Grey Hubert Skipwith, 1906
/126 Typed list of names for the woodpecker in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, nd
/127 Typed note concerning a reference in Pausanias to the twin priestesses of Demeter, nd
/128-/129 Letters from Karl Walter [Italy], 1906
/130 Letter from Oliver Lodge [scientist and first Principal of Birmingham University], 1913, enclosing /131 Letter to Oliver Lodge from Fraser Story [Professor of Forestry at Bangor], 1913
/132 Note made by James Rendel Harris of a reference to an article about the discovery of the tomb of Seidi Ghazi, a Moslem saint, article published 1906, nd
/133 Postcard from William Charles Braithwaite, 1906
/134 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris: 'Query whether it is possible that the Delian Apollo was originally a Simitic Kabir', nd
/135 Letter from RL Olu Brandon [Freetown, Sierra Leone], 1913
/136 Letter from Henry Marriage Wallis [Honorary Curator -Vertebrates, Reading Museum, Quaker], 1913
/137 Handwritten text in German by James Rendel Harris, with notes in Latin [by James Hope Moulton?], nd
/138 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris of a reference to the history of the Moliones, nd
/139 Letter from Henry Marriage Wallis, 1913
/140-/141 Letters from CA Phillips [Walton House, Bournemouth], nd
/142 Note from Terrot Reaveley Glover, nd
/143 Note from Kirsopp Lake, nd
/144 Letter from Terrot Reaveley Glover, 1907
/145-/146 Handwritten notes made by James Rendel Harris of books or articles about twin cults, nd
/147 Letter from Dr Adam Fischer, 1913, Polish?, with English translation
/148 Note of a passage from an article about twin cults published in 'Anthropos', French, nd
/149 Press cutting referring to twin killing in Africa, nd
/150 Letter from Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, nd
/151-/162 Typed copies of documents in this volume including: /116 Letter from Louis Dyer; /132 note of a legend concerning the discovery of a saint's tomb; /106 Letter from William Charles Braithwaite; /143 note from Kirsopp Lake; /77 letter from JGF;
/163 Notes, probably made by CA Phillips, on the origins of various English place names, nd
/164 Letter from Raymond Gill [Woodbrooke student], 1913
/165 Letter from Salomon Reinach [Professor of archaeology and art history at the Ecole du Louvre, France], nd
/166 Letter from Terrot Reaveley Glover, nd
/167 Postcard from CA Phillips, nd
/168 Postcard from DW, nd
/169 Letter from Henry Marriage Wallis, 1915
/170 Postcard of the High West Street in Dorchester, nd
/171 Letter from Terrot Reaveley Glover, 1907
/172 Postcard from James Hope Moulton, 1907
/173 Cutting from the Christian World, concerning the Ancient Greek belief that Mercury was two planets, 1907
/174 Unsigned letter, nd
/175 Cutting from the New York Evening Journal describing the superstition that the devil fathers one of a pair of twins, 1914
/176 Handwritten extract from 'The Life of GF Watts', concerning 'Gemini', nd
/177 Letter from John Skinner, 1907
/178 Letter from JP ?Burke [Society of Antiquaries of London], 1914
/179 Letter, possibly from Ernst Blau, 1914
/180 Cutting annoucing a change of venue for meetings of the West African Twin Association, 1914
/181-/183 Notes by James Rendel Harris of books containing references to twins, nd
/184 Cutting from the Times entitled 'The Privilege of Superstition', 1914
/185 Letter from Raymond Gill, 1914
/186 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Edward Salisbury [Public Record Office], 1907
/187 Handwritten list of churches in Kent dedicated to two saints, unknown author? nd
/188 Loose, letter from ?William Crooke [Folk Lore Society], 1922
/189 Letter from GF Clarke [Secretary to the Prime Minister of South Africa], 1921, enclosing /190 a letter and /191 a report of a court case concerning the murder of twins, 1921
/192 Letter from Francis McDonald Cornford [lecturer in Classics, Cambridge], 1914
/193 Letter from Mary G Langstaff, 1914
/194 Typed note of a prayer to the Discouri, from the Times Literary Supplement, 1914
/195 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris concerning African curses relating to twins, nd
/196 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris planning research on Mecastor, nd
/197-/200 Letters from CA Phillips, 1913
/201 Postcard showing the Castello Sant' Elmo, nd
/202-/203 Lists, probably made by CA Phillips, of place names and personal names containing the word 'hatch', nd
/204-/206 Notes by James Rendel Harris of references to twins, nd
/207 Letter from Alfred Ela, 1915
/208 Letter from Gladys MN Davis [folklorist?], 1915
/209-/211 Notes by James Rendel Harris listing books to read or ideas for research, 1908
/212 Copy, made by James Rendel Harris, of a letter from James Hope Moulton, 1908
/213-/214 Letters from WJ Perry, 1915
/215 note by James Rendel Harris of a reference to twins in Egyptian culture, nd
/216-/217, /219 Letters from WJ Perry, 1915
/218 press cutting noting a quotation from Chrysostom's Homilies about thunder, nd
/220 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris of a quotation from 'Arbre', by Calvier relating to twins, French, nd
/221-/223 Letters from WJ Perry, 1915
/224 Letter from Friedrich Blass [German classical scholar], 1908
/225 Letter from Joseph Grafton Milne [classical scholar], 1908
/226 Letter from Arthur Bernard Cook [classical scholar and archaeologist], 1908
/227-/228 Letters from WJ Perry, 1915
/229 Letter from KL, probably Kirsopp Lake, nd
/230 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris of references to the Discouri, nd
/231 Letter from John Roscoe [Namirembe, Kampala, Uganda], 1908
/232 Offprint of an article by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare concerning the traditional twinship of Jesus and James, 1910
/233-/234 Letters from Alfred Ela, 1916
/235 Handwritten notes by James Rendel Harris of references to twins, nd
/236 Letter from R ?Knowles, 1916
/237 Letter from Alfred Ela, 1915
/238 Letter from Karl Walter, 1908
/239 Letter from Alfred ?Tozzer to Professor Lanman concerning an enquiry by James Rendel Harris about twin killing in Mexico, 1908
/240 Letter from Alfred Ela, 1915
/241 Letter from RC ?Bosangurt, 1915
/242 Letter from CR Lanman [Cambridge, Massachusetts], 1908
/243 Letter from Keppel H Barnard [Passmore Edwards Settlement, Tavistock Place, London], 1909
/244 Letter from RB Clark, 1909
/245 Letter from Joseph Taylor, 1915
/246 Letter from Alfred Ela, 1915
/247 Letter from RB Clark, 1909
/248 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris entitled 'Hymns and Thanatos Furies', nd
/249 note by James Rendel Harris
/250 loose, note by James Rendel Harris of research ideas re twins, nd
/251-/252 Letters from Alfred Ela, 1916
/253 Letter from G v. ?Bodils, German, 1909
/254 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris of a reference to twins, nd
/255 Note made by James Rendel Harris re belief that the village of Hengest Hors was the starting point of 'the English invaders', nd
/256 Letter from HMC, nd
/257 Notes made by James Rendel Harris, Latin, nd
/258 Notes made by James Rendel Harris about woodpeckers in ancient mythology, nd
/259 Loose, 2 pages of an article about twins from Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, German, 1910
/260 Note by James Rendel Harris of research ideas about twins, nd
/261 Letter from Kirsopp Lake, nd
/262-/263 Letters from Terrot Reaveley Glover, 1909
/264 Letter from Austin Dobson [poet, critic, and biographer], 1909
/265 Note by James Rendel Harris concerning mythological names for twins, nd
/266 Letter from Alfred Ela, 1916
/267 Note by James Rendel Harris relating to the use of the expression 'O Gemini' in Sheridan's 'The Rivals', nd
/268 Letter from FG Montagu Powell, 1909
/269-/270 Letters from James Hope Moulton, 1909
/271 Postcard from Rev Dr G Milligan [Murthly, Perthshire], 1909
/272 Note made by James Rendel Harris concerning twins and the Zodiac, nd
/273-/276 Loose, letter from Alfred Ela, 1920
/277 Cutting from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of an article by Alfred Ela, 1920
/278 Cutting from the Urologic and Cutaneous Review of an article by Alfred Ela, 'Anaphrodisiacs in History, Folk-Lore, and Religion', 1920
/279 Letter from William Forfeitt [missionary in the Congo?], 1909
/280 Letter from Winifred Marie Gill [Woodbrooke student], 1910
/281 Letter from William Charles Braithwaite [barrister, Quaker, and Biblical scholar], 1910
/282 Letter from Kenred Smith [missionary in Belgian Congo], 1910, enclosing /283 an essay describing superstitions relating to twins
/284-/285 Loose, postcards from Robert Henry Charles [theologian; canon, then archdeacon of Westminster Abbey], 1912
/286 Letter from Rev NH Louwyck [Manchester], 1911
/287 Letter from James Hope Moulton, 1911
/288 Letter from Alfred Ela, 1916
/289 Letter from James Hope Moulton, 1911
/290 Letter from HF ?Feilbur, language?, 1911
/291 Letter from WJ Perry, 1916
/292 Handwritten note by James Rendel Harris entitled 'The Twins in Hittite', nd
/293 Letter from F James Dudden [Lincoln College, Oxford], 1914
/294 Letter to James Rendel Harris from ?Currie [Katha, Burma] concerning twins in Burma, 1916
/295 Press cutting reporting the birth of quadruplets, 1918
/296 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Hilda Mary Stranger [Gunnerside School, Torrington Place, Plymouth], 1911
/297 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Winifred Marie Gill, 1918
/298 Postcard from D Oliver, a photograph of the columns of Baal Temple in Deir-ul-kalaa, Lebanon, nd
/299 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Hilda Mary Stranger, 1915
/300 Letter to James Rendel Harris from John Steele [Secretary, Board of Study for the Preparation of Missionaries], 1915
/301 Letter to James Rendel Harris from J Marcus Brown [missionary in Nigeria], nd
/302 Postcard showing three African women, nd
/303 Postcard to James Rendel Harris from Hugh Fraser Stewart [St John's College, Cambridge], 1916
/304 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1920
/305 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Margaret C Waites [Department of Latin, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts], 1919
/306 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Lewis Slight, 1919
/307 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Margaret C Waites, enclosing /308 a cutting about the Thunder Eagle, 1918
/309 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1918
/310 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Robert W Rogers [Drew Theological Seminary], 1919
/311 Letter to James Rendel Harris from John Steele, 1921
/312 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1921
/313 Article by Alfred Ela, entitled 'Longings of the Pregnant, viewed in Light from the East', 1920
/314 Letter from Alfred Ela, 1918
/315 Letter from WJ Rutherfurd [Manchester], enclosing /316 and /317, cuttings about thunder eagles, and the tradition of inviting twins to weddings for good luck, 1918
/318 Letter to James Rendel Harris from John C Steele [Secretary, Board of Study for the Preparation of Missionaries], enclosing /319 a cutting about twin births in Africa, 1918
/320 Cutting of an article entitled 'The Construction of 43 Aerodromes in Africa', 1920
/321 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Glasgow University Press on behalf of Sir James Frazer [anthropologist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge], returning /322 a photograph labelled 'Corn Baby', 1921
/323 Cutting - article by John Nelson [missionary, Ibibio Out-Station] concerning beliefs surrounding the birth of twins, 1918
/324 Letter to James Rendel Harris from John Steele, 1916
/325 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1918 enclosing /326 memo relating to legends about the yellowhammer in Louisiana
/327 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1918
/328 Cutting of an article about monuments on Inishmore, 1916
/329 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Winifred M Gill, 1919
/330-/331 Letters to James Rendel Harris from Edwin Sidney Hartland [folklorist], 1922
/332 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1922
/333 Note made by James Rendel Harris concerning Greek myths about twins, nd
/334 Cutting of an article describing beliefs about twins in Southern Nigeria, 'where twins are considered a disgrace', nd
/335 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1921
/337 Letter to James Rendel Harris from CG Hoag [Haverford, Philadelphia] enclosing /336 cutting of an article describing an American belief that the devil fathers one of a pair of twins, 1914
ArrangementOriginal order
LanguageLatin
German
Ancient Greek
French
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionOriginally listed as Lot 4 /2-/3, /73-/74 are photographs; /90-/92 are photographs; /298 is a photograph; /322 is a photograph

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