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Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. Dated 3 January 1921 - Thanks him for the testimonial; is still waiting to hear the result of his application; the greater part of [Wilhelm?] Bleek's MS is in the hands of Miss [Dorothea?] Bleek; he hopes to persuade her to publish.

University of Cape Town. Dated 12 June 1922 - Thanks Frazer for his letter of congratulation and apologises for the delay in responding; is sending 'The Andaman Islanders'; is writing articles for journals rather than the large book on Australia he had hoped to publish; worries that [Wilhelm?] Bleek's daughter [Dorothea?] will not publish his work; have 12 students taking the first course in Social Anthropology; has plans for more students and an Anthropological Institute; the news of the death of Dr Rivers came as a shock.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 5 Dec. 1920 - Is sorry the Royal Society dinner was dull; is preparing a speech to the Ernest Renan Society; wonders if he can recommend anyone to take the Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, thinks A. R. Brown is standing for it, 'an able but eccentric man'.

From the Rector, Exeter College, Oxford - Gives the date of Hutton's Frazer lecture; advises on the lecturer for 1938 at Cambridge: suggests Radcliffe Brown, finds Masefield no more of an anthropologist as the next man, can't think of any older anthropologists except E. A. Hooton, younger ones include E. Evans Pritchard, Raymond Firth, or 'why not a woman for a new departure': Audrey Richards.

From the Rector, Exeter College, Oxford - A catastrophe that Brown couldn't give his Frazer Lecture, was struck down with a sudden illness; he couldn't attend due to family illness, and the Chaplain and Bursar down with the flu; 'The Times' might send 'The Native Races of Australia' to review, but he can't ask for it.

St Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated 4 April 1909 - Continuing the discussion about an anthropological expedition to Western Australia, funds probably haven't been raised at the University of Liverpool, as Sir Robert [recte Rubert] Boyce and [John] Garstang are abroad; A. R. Brown would like to join the expedition, Frazer likes that he is interested in marriage and the classificatory system, as that is what he would like to learn most about; [Baldwin] Spencer would have to approve this, thinks that Spencer should lead, and [Francis] Gillen should go too.

St Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated 13 November 1909 - Discusses the terminology of totemism, and encloses proofsheets to answer some of his questions more fully [not transcribed]; would rather that the Western Australian expedition is done by Spencer and Gillen, and thinks it a mistake to get Spencer to go without Gillen; if Spencer cannot go, then he is willing to give Sir John Murray's £200 to an expedition of [Radcliffe] Brown and [Francis Howe Seymour?] Knowles.

All Souls College, Oxford - Thanks him for his letter of congratulations [on the position at Oxford?], and expresses his support for the proposed publication of his anthropological notebooks.

Cuttings from 'Nature', 23 Sept. 1939 and 'Crown Colonist', Mar. 1940.

2 Wordsworth Grove, Cambridge - Reports that Radcliffe-Brown has been appointed to give the Frazer Lecture for 1939 at Cambridge; there is no money for publication.

2 Wordsworth Grove, Cambridge - Will tell Radcliffe-Brown that he really owes his nomination to give the Frazer Lecture to Sir James; does not see any way of arranging for publication; defends Hutton, who has been going through a busy and anxious time; asks that she not 'hark back again to the Roscoe lecture', doesn't believe Ridgeway arranged it.

2 Wordsworth Grove, Cambridge - The Frazer Lecture [given by Radcliffe-Brown] didn't go as well as hoped, had advertised it with big bills, only to have it postponed the morning of the lecture, the crowd was not as big as it would have been originally, doesn't believe the lecture will be printed and hopes the lecturer will not be paid until it is; the location was very fine.

Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells - Regrets he cannot attend the lecture on Feb. 24, his wife is unwell; hopes the lecture will be printed; looks forward to reading it and profiting from its lessons, as he did when Warde Fowler corrected his mistranslation of 'sexta luna' in Pliny.

Manor Field, Grantchester, Cambridge - Describes the Frazer Lecture given by Radcliffe-Brown as a great success.