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Barlavington Manor, Petworth - Encloses an article from the 'Dr Modi Memorial Volume' [not present] citing Dubois, about Nambudiri Brahmans marrying the corpses of girls who had died unwed.

Barlavington Manor, Petworth - Thanks him for his letter; helped the publisher with [William] Crooke's 'Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India'; thanks him for his review of his book ['Folklore of Bombay'?] in 'The Times'; his chief object was to pay tribute to A. M. T. Jackson, murdered in 1909; would like to discuss making something of [J. M.] Campbell's notes on the spirit basis of belief and custom; is interested in Vol. I of 'The Worship of Nature', has tried in vain to interest the educated class in India in their history or social customs; encloses an offprint, 'Devaks in the Deccan and Konkan', from 'The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay' [FRAZ/17/37] and a parody of an ethnological article, 'The Hill Tribes of India' [FRAZ/17/36], a satire on British society at Simla that he sent to [G. T.] Chesney, editor of the 'Pioneer', and which was printed as a serious article.

Grasmere, Simla - Thanks him for the second edition of 'The Golden Bough'; his work as head of the Census in the Indian Empire has kept him busy, notes that he broke the record of publishing his tallies by three weeks; is on holiday; will be doing an ethnographic survey of India, and asks for his anthropological questions; his Census Superintendents are keen on ethnography; Mr [R. E.?] Enthoven has found a system of totemism among the Marathas in Bombay; is requiring the castes recorded in the Census to be arranged in the order of social precedence, which has gratified many and stimulated some to determine which class they belong to.

Vale House, Wootton, Nr Boars Hill, Oxford - Understands Frazer is revising his volume on 'Totems' and encloses a paper [not present] on totem objects discovered in the Bombay Presidency, many of them found after he had published his Ethnographical Survey of Bombay in 1920; the final volume of Anathakrishna Iyer's 'The Mysore Tribes and Castes' has the latest information; would be happy to help in any other way with information on totem survivals in India.