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Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee - Thanks him for offering to send the book written in Frazer's honour; has been reading Hartland's Ritual and Belief that he thinks Frazer would agree with; will retire, doesn't see much fruit from his 54 1/2 years of teaching; received a letter from Capstick who has been unwell; family members are well; comments on the varying qualities of portraits of Frazer; Ninian [Frazer] wants to sell Frazer & Green but no one wants to pay a good price.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated April 8th 1920 - At a meeting of the Committee of the Expedition [William] Mackie offered another £1000 for the fund, which had been invested in War Loans which had lost value; is planning on writing a fuller report on the expedition for 'Man'; have moved back into the Middle Temple flat, Lilly still has a racking cough; spent a day in Cambridge and saw various friends (W. J. Lewis, J. W. Capstick, and J. J. Thomson, but not Henry Jackson), and has been offered an honorary degree; has had a friendly letter from [William] Ridgeway; has a copy of 'Totemism and Taboo' by 'a German or Austrian psychologist [Sigmund Freud], who borrows most of his facts from me', 'he seems to have a great vogue with some people'.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 5 Feb. 1915 - Thanks him for his copy of 'Essays of Joseph Addison'; right now he has little time for reading, is instead lecturing, investigating the temperature of bullocks, learning to speak French from his Belgian, making music for the soldiers and photographing the wounded.

Section Sanitaire Anglaise No. 1, Dijon. Dated 7 May 1915 - Discusses his experience as an ambulance driver in Belfort: doesn't have much to do, and are not part of the Croix Rouge, but in the Section Sanitaire of the French Army; describes a bombing raid on the town; half the men there are from Oxford or Cambridge.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks her for the gift; the Vice-Master [Reginald St John Parry] is much better and Mr Capstick walked across his room unaided; is putting Mr Graves on a staircase and the bedmaker will be busy which will save the Frazers all but her retaining fee.

Fen Ditton, Cambridge - Thanks him for [the second edition of 'The Golden Bough']; is glad to hear from Mrs Frazer how he fares in foreign lands; has been put on the Caius Governing Body, and then the University Council, thinks it would be helpful as the next four years will be important for the advancement of anthropology there, 'I know that you will consider me a jackass for going into University business', [Francis?] Jenkinson and [M. R.?] James both voted against him, 'to keep me from wasting my time'; is about to publish volume one of his book, going ahead even though new discoveries are made during every spring's diggings; A. J. Evans gave a lecture on Cnossus; [John?] Capstick is flourishing and the Fellowship dividend has gone up; [Henry?] Jackson is much better; [Arthur?] Verrall still poorly; [Solomon?] Schechter is better; encloses a document sent him by C. H. Read [not present]; [Herbert Hope?] Risley is a splendid fellow; Ridgeway is pushing for a new museum of anthropology, has an old Caius friend, wealthy, childless, interested in archaeology, who will help and will work the City Companies for him.

Trin Coll - Congratulates Frazer: 'Your name in the list of Honours was the one item on which criticism was impossible. It was a great day too for Trinity.'

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Thanks him for the copy of 'The Fear of the Dead' which he will deposit in College Library; is sorry to hear about his eyesight; the Vice-Master [Reginald St John Parry] and Capstick have made good progress: the V.M. now attends council meetings and came to Hall for the admission of the new Fellows.

With envelope addressed to Frazer at Hotel St. James, Rue Saint Honoré, Paris.

One card from J. W. Capstick, and four letters from Sydney W. Carline.

de Cannelle d'Orcino par Sant'Andrea - Doesn't believe she is bored in Cambridge, but is just anxious to leave; is pained to learn that Capstick is paralysed, and perhaps more that Nairne is displeased with him; pylons are going up and electricity is imminent, and excavations are being dug for a water supply; he is keeping the letters of Elliot Smith.