| Description | Ten notebooks containing notes by James Rendel Harris about folklore and mythology relating to twins. Numbers on the notebooks suggest that the series is incomplete. The numbers of the surviving notebooks are 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. There are enclosures in the following notebooks:
/6 Label originally adhered to front of volume, reading 'Notes on the Cult of the Heavenly Twins, No. 6'; postcard note by James Rendel Harris of a quotation about Papias from 'Church History' by Gwatkin; manuscript letter to James Rendel Harris from James Hope Moulton, 21 November 1910; pasted in cutting from the 'Daily News' entitled 'A Ghastly Custom', 27 December 1910.
/8 Two issues of the Quarterly Magazine of the 'Qua Iboe' Mission, August and November 1911; manuscript letter to James Rendel Harris from Edward Little, 3 January 1912
/9 Cutting from 'The Lancet' about twins, 1911; Letter to James Rendel Harris from Chr. Blinkenberg [Copenhagen] concerning the derivation of the word 'spadejesten', 1912; manuscript notes from the Education Department Bulletin published by the University of the State of New York', 15 December 1908, 12 March 1912; manuscript letter to James Rendel Harris from A. J. [Arent Jan] Wensinck [Secretary to the Redaction of the Encyclopedia of Islam; Professor of Hebrew, then Arabic at University of Leiden], ?1922;
/10 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Hector Munro Chadwick [Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge], 1914;
/14 Typescript notes from 'Scythians and Greeks' by E. H. Minns; two typescript letter [to James Rendel Harris] from James Hope Moulton, 29 May 1914, 1 June 1914; printed booklet of essays presented to William Ridgeway, 6 August 1913; manuscript letter to James Rendel Harris from H. M. C., 7 July; manuscript letter to James Rendel Harris from ?J. ?Corrie, 30 May 1914 |