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199: 10 Aug 1910, containing copies of Hon. V. A. Bruce's school reports from Eton (dated 'Dec 1910' - actually 1909?).
223: 10 Nov 1912, with Henry Babington Smith's draft telegraphic reply
224: 12 Nov 1912, enclosing copy of letter from the Earl of Elgin to L. V. V. Harcourt

Six letters concerning the petition to the Colonial Office supporting the creation of an appointment of Government Anthropologist for the British Possessions in Central and East Africa. In the first [St. Keyne's, Cambridge, dated 27 Nov. 1913] he apologises for springing the petition on him, explains his thinking and encloses a proof [not transcribed]; he then [30 Nov.] asks for names of men to whom the memorial should be sent, and on 12 Dec. encloses a notice of the memorial to be printed in 'The Times'. In the fourth letter [from the Albemarle Club, Dover St. W.], dated 4th March 1914, he reports he has delivered the memorial to [Lewis] Harcourt; in other matters, he suggests they continue calling each other by the names they have used for so many years as he becomes more averse to innovations as he ages; is considering a house in Bloomsbury as his wife is anxious to settle and eats and sleeps better in London than Cambridge; and suggests that he use Macmillan and the University Press in future as they inspire perfect confidence. On 7 March [Batt's Hotel, Dover Street, London, W.] he sends six more copies of the petition to Roscoe. On 24 April he encloses a copy of the answer to the memorial, discusses the disappointing provisions in it and ways that it might be made acceptable; he also suggests that for his book on the Northern Bantus he insist on getting the proofs in slip from the University Press rather than in pages as they have just done to his wife in her book for them. The copy of the answer is transcribed, sent by Henry Lambert from Downing Street, 23 April 1914, conveys Mr Harcourt's decision to ask the Governor of the East Africa Protectorate to find funds for three years for Roscoe at £500 a year.

Six letters concerning Frazer's part in further negotiations relating to the funding of Roscoe's work in Central Africa. The letters date from 30 April to 22 May, 1914, and are written from the Albemarle Club and Batt's Hotel in London where he obtained advice from [Arthur] Shipley, and from the Midland Hotel in Manchester on the 8th and 13th May when his brother [Samuel] died; and at the end of May a short holiday at the Grand Hotel in Llandudno. In the letters of 30 April (Items 66 and 67, misnumbered: 67 is written in the morning and 66 in the evening) Frazer mentions seeing Shipley and hopes to get an interview with Reid [Herbert Read], the Under Secretary for the Colonies, and suggests proposing an appointment of eighteen months with a year in Africa and six months working up the report, and mentions this was Lilly's idea; he also forwards a letter [not transcribed] from [W. H. R.] Rivers, who writes discouragingly about a fellowship at St. John's. In the letter of 1 May, he encloses a draft of the letter to Harcourt and suggests he get it signed by [A. C.] Haddon, [William] Ridgeway and Rivers, and reports that he spoke to Ray Lankester and Sir Henry Miers, who are interested. The letter of 8th May reports the serious illness of his brother, and the letter of 13th May thanks him for his sympathy, and continues to discuss the letter to [Lewis] Harcourt; and the letter of 22nd May encloses an answer to the letter [not transcribed], which he describes as 'satisfactory'.