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3 Ashburnham Road, Tonbridge. Dated Sept. 25th, 1899 - Has been reading his 'Golden Bough' which she regrets not reading before going to Africa; describes an ornament worn by an old Manganje woman in the West Shire district, B.C.A.; describes long grass knotted together and the different explanations for it, including H. A. Junod's, and her speculation on the real reason, to keep the sun from going down before travellers reach home, and the stories told the white people because they wouldn't understand the other; cites a story by Miss H. G. [Harriette Emily?] Colenso of a Zulu suffering from ceremonial uncleanness after not making an incision in the corpse of the man he killed; questions Herr Speckmann's book referring to the 'idholzi' (not 'iholzi').

20 Dry Hill Park Road, Tonbridge. Dated October 4 [1899] - Thanks him for his answer to hers, has not yet seen [Lionel] Decle's book; clarifies where she saw the knots in the grass; suggests he cite Miss H. G. [Harriette Emily?] Colenso for the information on the Zulu warrior and ritual uncleanness; Junod refers to a curious rain-charm ceremony that she may have witnessed in part at Utumbi, West Shire, B.C.A.; suggests that Majaje, the mysterious chieftainess in the mountains north of the Transvaal is a representative of the King of the Wood.

[Postcard send from Mobasa, B.E.A.] Dated 8.4.12 - The postcard, illustrating the first chapter of the 'Golden Bough', is from a series she found in Nairobi, which she has sent to Dr Haddon; is in Mombasa until the rains are over and she can go to Lamu; asks him to tell Mrs Frazer the blanks [of phonograph records] are so far unbroken and she hopes to send more good Swahili records by the next parcel.

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'.

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.