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Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, London, W.C.1. - Is happy to hear the work is completed; confirms permission to have the two cases there; will be pleased to receive the promised manuscript; is grateful for the offer of the chairs and folding table.
Accompanied by an envelope with note "From The Keeper of the MSS British Museum about the 2 boxes of books & Notebooks Left in the lobby M.S.S. Department B. Museum".

Department of Manuscripts, British Museum - Writes during Mr Bell's absence, thanking her for the additional manuscript, the 'Reply to an Address'.

British Museum - The letters concern material left at the British Museum and seek to clarify which material has been offered, as well as the whereabouts of 40 notebooks not found in the suitcase and two boxes, which turn out to be 36 notebooks in Downie's possession; Esdaile records handing over 55 notebooks to Dr Bell, Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts, and his return of the rest of the material to Trinity.

Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, London, W.C.1. - In the letter of 22 March he reports that he cannot accommodate Frazer past May 1st, as staff is increasing and space is not available; would like to have a manuscript of Frazer's in the library. In the letter of 23 March he thanks her for the gift.

Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, London, W.C.1. - Thanks her for the gift of a Frazer MS, referred to as a sketch, prophetic about the war, but asks if they may have something connected with 'The Golden Bough'.

Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. - Hopes soon to be able to 'revise Mr [H. I.] Bell's transcript of the Isocrates papyrus'; this will take a little time but he will then send it to Wright to print in the Journal of Philology.

Regarding Wright's enquiries about Lawrence, the notes in Lansdowne MS.98 art 26 are not those printed by Strype in appendix LXXXV to his Life of [Matthew] Parker, but notes on Gregory Nazanzius [?] not the New Testament, 'and I cannot find that we have the latter'. The Lansdowne notes are 'no doubt by hthe same person; for they are endorsed "Mr Lawrence ye great Grecian, Teacher of yt [that] tongue to ye Lady Burghley", which corresponds with Strype's account'. Discusses the use of the same phrase in Ballard's Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 1752, and the likelihood that it refers to Giles Lawrence rather than Thomas Lawrence. Cites a reference to Giles Lawrence in Bishop Kennett's MS collections, Lansdowne 982 f 55.