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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Has heard from Dr Marett that Frazer has sent a chapter from Lausanne [for 'Spencer's Scientific Correspondence with Sir J G Frazer and Others']; her father [Baldwin Spencer] would have been pleased; her husband bought the Baremman estate at Gare Loch a few months ago.

19 Cowley Street, Westminster, S.W.1. - Thanks her for the book, will send one to her sister; is worried for son Alastair, who was attached to headquarters of [51st Highland] Scottish Division when half were cut off at St. Valéry-en-Caux.

Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Discusses the arrangements being made about her father [Baldwin Spencer's] papers and collections: photographs sent to Mr [L. C. G.] Clarke at Cambridge and the papers and letters with them to [G. J.?] Heath c/o Macmillan's; is not sure Sir James meant for her to keep her father's letters; [Henry] Balfour is giving them a chapter, and has picked out some things for the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the rest are going to Melbourne; L. Dudley Buxton has 'seldom or never examined specimens of so great an importance in my life'; she is pleased, and is pleased for Miss Hamilton, who went to such effort to get the collection back home; hopes Sir James will give some pages for the book [of selected letters]; Miss Hamilton has sailed to Australia but will return in June; her elder son [Alastair] has had measles; is going to France for the holidays, has been down to Gare Loch.

19 Cowley Street, Westminster, S.W.1. - Thanks her for the books, has sent three out to Australia; is sorry to hear she has been unwell; have had to move out of their house while the foundations are strengthened.

Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Has just moved in to her house and is very busy; asked if [R. R. ]Marett could come but he has to return to Oxford quickly; will be meeting with Jean Hamilton and will sort out letters and identify photos if Sir James still wishes to move ahead with the book [of Baldwin Spencer's writings] he had proposed when she saw them.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Would like to bring [Jean] Hamilton; describes what Miss Hamilton told her of the voyage bringing her father [Baldwin Spencer]'s body back to the mainland; Miss Hamilton looks very much older since January, and Dorothy's relatives are impressed by how well she managed everything; Dorothy is taking her on holiday with her to France.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Confirms arrangements to meet; [Jean] Hamilton has arrived in England and is also pleased at Sir James' idea of a book created from the notes and letters of her father [Baldwin Spencer]; Miss Hamilton confirms that [Baldwin] Spencer made no directions about his work.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Makes arrangements to meet; is pleased at Sir James' idea of a book created from the notes and letters of her father [Baldwin Spencer]; is expecting [Jean] Hamilton; has had a busy summer and finds a holiday in France necessary if inconveniently timed.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Appreciated Sir James' obituary of her father [Baldwin Spencer] in 'The Times'; would be pleased to visit them; [Jean] Hamilton's boat hasn't yet arrived; feels confident her mother [Mary Elizabeth Spencer] would agree with her to put the notes in the hands of Sir James; thanks her for the enclosures, was glad to see Dr [R. R.] Marett's particularly; she saw much of her father the last two years and encloses a photograph of him [now housed at FRAZ/17/133?].

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire. Dated May 10th 1930 - Has heard from Dr Marett that Frazer has sent a chapter from Lausanne [for 'Spencer's Scientific Correspondence with Sir J G Frazer and Others']; her father [Baldwin Spencer] would have been pleased; her husband bought the Baremman estate at Gare Loch a few months ago.

4 Tintern Avenue, Toorak, Melbourne - Thanks him for his kind words about Baldwin Spencer, wishes Baldwin had taken Frazer's advice and not gone [to Tierra del Fuego]; has an idea of publishing a book of tributes to Spencer. In a postscript of 9 September, she has heard from her daughter Mrs Young that she has written him about little matters and approves of all she has done.

Photograph of Spencer and a young boy [his grandson] on the steps of a building, in front of a doorway.

With stationery for Woodside, Cove, Dunbartonshire around it. It is likely this is the photograph Dorothy Young refers to in her letter of 6 September 1929 to Lady Frazer [FRAZ/33/461].

Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Is sorry to hear of Frazer's eyesight troubles; is happy to have her name and her father's [Sir Baldwin Spencer] appear; will give a copy to Mr Thomson, working in Northern Queensland [possibly Donald Thomson]; was in France in October, empathises with Mary Stuart's feelings on leaving France for Scotland.

Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Is very grateful to Frazer for his proposal for a book of letters [published as 'Spencer's Scientific Correspondence with Sir J. G. Frazer and Others'] and is grateful to Marett for agreeing to edit it; is hoping to see Marett in Oxford next week.

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Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Will send him some typed transcripts of extracts of letters from her father Spencer Baldwin to her aunt, to aid him in his memoir of Baldwin.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Encloses a letter from her mother [Baldwin Spencer's widow, letter is not present]; has heard from Sir Arthur Keith, who says that Mr Balfour of the Pitt Rivers Museum is the person to contact about the small collection.

Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Thinks Elsie Malinowski could give some interesting notes about her father Baldwin Spencer's time in Darwin; thanks the Frazers for their time and for helping with the project to publish the letters, would be happy to come to an arrangement with Macmillans.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Baldwin Spencer's daughter writes that she has had a letter from her father's secretary Miss Hamilton, who was with him when he died, and who was then shipwrecked so that she could not contact the family; relates Hamilton's notes of the final days with Spencer, and that she is bringing back all his papers, which Young would like Frazer to look at.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Has received official word that Baldwin Spencer died of angina pectoris; will let him know about his notes when she hears more, thanks Frazer for offering to place his letters from Baldwin at their disposal, wonders if there is a book in them.

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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Thanks him for his kind words about her father Baldwin Spencer in the 'Times'; had a letter from her father dated 22 April, asks if Frazer would like to see any notes her father made on his last expedition, and give advice on what to do with them.

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