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Pembroke, Barwell, Leicester - Has just bought the 12-volume 'Golden Bough' and admires it; Sir Wallis Budge's 'From Fetish to God [in Ancient Egypt]' and Professor Freud's 'Totem and Taboo' made him want to read it.

Pembroke, Barwell, Leicester - Thanks him for his reply, informs him he has bought more of Frazer's works, and admires them as well; asks if he has come across Theodore Powys' theory of Soil and Sexuality; mentions a newspaper story of Dorset girls praying before an old stone for sweethearts; and describes an instance of sympathetic magic used by nurses in a maternity hospital.

as from Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks him for his letter, and suggests that Payne read Tylor's 'Primitive Culture', as it was the reading of this book that led him to study anthropology.