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Embossed stamp of Coll. Jesu Oxford - Thanks him for his letter; asks for the meaning of the carrying of a hen in a procession on St Catherine's Day on the Isle of Man.

Card [incomplete?] dated 9 November thanks Frazer for his 'Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship' and is giving a lecture on the Ogam alphabet at [J. B.] Bury's suggestion. In the letter of 11 November, he writes about the Celtic festival on the 13th August, a date discussed in the book as it is Diana of Nemi's festival. The letter of 15th August he has read the book further and apologises that some of his remarks in the previous letter were 'worse than useless'; does not see how etymologically 'Rivos' could be connected with 'Virbius'; is sorry not to be at the Folklore Society meeting, would be happy to read [A.B.] Cook's MS; revisits the Coligny calendar and whether the calendar god Rivos can be connected with Diana Egeria.

Melbourne. Dated Sept. 7, 1906 - [A. W.] Howitt has shown him a letter from Professor Rhys in which he notes that often in fairy stories all the fairies are women, and believes that this must be a very primitive idea; notes that [Andrew] Lang has ridiculed the idea of 'savages' not being astonished at a community of women; believes that the old folk custom of women who go to shrines to become fertile and the saying that babies came from the parsley bed are based on the same essential idea of conception as the Arunta; he has told Howitt that it is 'his sacred ethnologic duty to punch, pound and pulverize [Lang] until he hasn't a whole bone in his body'

From Professor Rhys, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford - Thanks him for 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris'; has read A. B. [Cook]'s article in 'Folklore' and is 'much exercised' that his Sky God and Frazer's deity of increase and fertility overlap.

Embossed stamp of Coll. Jesu Oxford - Has had influenza for 3 weeks; 'Baum des reinen Golds' is hopeless, as there is nothing in the original to identify it with mistletoe, and recommends he leave it out of the new edition; his daughter Olwen is visiting; the elder daughter [Myfanwy] has been visiting Mrs Ritchie in Devon; hopes to come to the International Congress on April 3.

Melbourne - [A. W.] Howitt has shown him a letter from Professor Rhys in which he notes that often in fairy stories all the fairies are women, and believes that this must be a very primitive idea; notes that [Andrew] Lang has ridiculed the idea of 'savages' not being astonished at a community of women; believes that the old folk custom of women who go to shrines to become fertile and the saying that babies came from the parsley bed are based on the same essential idea of conception as the Arunta; he has told Howitt that it is 'his sacred ethnologic duty to punch, pound and pulverize [Lang] until he hasn't a whole bone in his body'.