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Kennedy Buildings. Dated October 24 - Concerns African parallels to Balder: answers Frazer's question about the man [who is said to have been killed by a gourd-stalk, as cited in Carl Velten's 'Schilderungen der Suaheli'], that she can find no evidence when this man lived. Accompanied by two transcriptions of extracts about people killed only by unusual items.

Newnham College, Cambridge. Dated Wed. evening - Concerns African parallels to Balder: sends the German book about a man who could be killed with a '-stall' [not fully transcribed, perhaps gourd-stalk, cited in C. Velten's 'Schilderungen der Suaheli'], and notes that the passage about Liongo killed with a copper needle is in Steven's [recte Steere's] 'Swahili Tales'.