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La Haule Manor, Jersey - Will not make 'any more fuss' [about the proposed omission of his lecture from the Frazer Lectures volume], go ahead with publication as they like, though the omission of his lecture might make future lecturers disinclined to publish; has not liked how things were done behind his back, if there was a letter, it must have gone astray, and J. G. has not said a word; returns Elliot Smith's letter [which asks that the lecture be published, FRAZ/3/117], which is 'quite sporting'; would say it again, and [Thomas Athol?] Joyce bought many copies to distribute in America; they should tell Dawson to return to the job; offers congratulations on the Glasgow appointment.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 12 May 1907 - Thanks him for his statement on the use of the anthropological questions; regards his testimony of their usefulness 'by far the most valuable and weighty that I have ever received'; is annoyed at [W. H. R.] Rivers for quoting Roscoe as holding the opposite opinion; thanks him for [Thomas Athol?] Joyce's letter; Roscoe was lucky to have met W. E. Roth; arranges a time for a walk.

19 Melrose Avenue, Cricklewood, N.W. - Encloses information on Ikina Bari, a decayed form of Totemism among the BuShongo (BaKuba) of the Kasai District of the Congo State; and adds information on the inheritance of rank and property along the female line.

Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum - Sends references to flood-legends in general; accompanied by a four page document headed, 'Deluge Legends (Ancient America)' with information on legends in Mexico, the Maya, the Mixtec, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.