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1 Brick Court, Temple, London. Dated 25th Nov. 1918 - Encloses a letter from Sir Peter Mackie [not transcribed] in which all appears organised for the expedition; invites him to visit them in Nantwych.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated April 10th. 1919 - Is pleased how things are turning out for the expedition [to Uganda]; has written to [Arthur] Hinks about the maps; has written to Denison Ross about [phonograph] records and a standard comparative vocabulary; will consult Macmillan about a new and improved edition of 'The Baganda'; as to the drugs, they don't think [Arthur] Keith is the person to apply to; will visit [Sir Peter] Mackie and thank him for his generosity; thinks his idea of a clerk is a good one; anticipates valuable results from the expedition.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 14 April 1919 - Makes recommendations of people to apply to: Mr Reeve Wallace about sugar, butter, and jam, and the Apothecaries Hall or the Pharmaceutical Society about analysing drugs; will be visiting [Sir Peter] Mackie.

Corraith, Symington, by Kilmarnock. Dated Wednesday, 16th. April 1919 - Is staying with [Peter] Mackie who assures him he intends to see the Roscoe expedition through, will be helpful as to the stores of sugar, butter, and jam and the drugs for analysis; encloses a response from Denison Ross [not transcribed] about vocabulary.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 23 May 1919 - Wishes him the best on the eve of departure; urges him to take care of his health; mentions a notice in 'The Times'; reminds him that [Peter] Mackie has said he would see the expedition through financially.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 9 June 1919 - Roscoe's letter to the Editor of 'The Times' [about Ruanda] appeared last Friday; he sent a copy to [Peter] Mackie; [William] Ridgeway is ill.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 26 June 1919 - Thanked [Peter] Mackie for giving another £1000 to the [Roscoe] expedition; met the editor of the African Society's Journal, [William] Crabtree, who is writing an article on the expedition; hears [Henry] Jackson is very ill of diabetes; is working on a translation of Apollodorus for the Loeb Library, grudges the time spent on it, wants to return to anthropology, 'my real work'.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 24 July 1919 - [William] Crabtree wrote a notice in the July number of the Journal of the African Society; writes about the illness of Lilly Frazer (a bad cold), [William] Ridgeway (recovering), Henry Jackson (diabetes), and Dr Black (whooping cough); the Peace Day celebrations were unremarkable and the miners are behaving badly.

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'.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 7th July 1920 - Lists who he saw in Cambridge at the honorary degree ceremony: Arthur Balfour, the Ridgeways, [William?] Cox, A. B. Cook, Henry Jackson, who is frail; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; Sir Peter Mackie has given £3500 in total to the expedition; will send a copy of an article on his work among the Bahima in 'Man'; comments on the customs of the Banyoro; is interested in measurement of all kinds; have seen much of Malinowski; Lilly is much better and editing an anthology of recent French poetry for Oxford University Press, and has a big scheme in mind for developing French in Britain.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 3 September 1920 - Suggests he stop in Egypt to look at the monuments on the way home; Sir Peter Mackie received a Baronetcy, the Ridgeways were congratulatory on the honorary degree and Royal Society fellowship, but he has not heard from Haddon or Rivers; has met Colonels Shakespear and Gurdon, who did anthropology work in Assam; threat of a coal strike.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 23-24 November 1920 - On the 23rd, he writes he has heard that a long account of the expedition was published in 'The Daily Mail' and is sorry to hear that such a 'low and vulgar paper' should have the first report of a scientific expedition, 'even Sir Peter Mackie is probably not a good judge as to the proper mode of publishing the results'. On the 24th he says he has written [Sir Peter Mackie] that a full report should be deferred until after the dinner; Lilly has written their friend [Wickham Steed] of 'The Times' about it.

Ovington Rectory, Thetford. Dated 25 November 1920 - Writes his side of the story concerning the article in the 'Daily Mail', condoned by Sir Peter Mackie so that he felt he had no choice; does not believe Mackie is giving him a dinner, and no one at the Royal Society has mentioned a speech; finds the muddle most distasteful and is sorry Frazer is away.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 10th December 1920 - Recommends he follow Sir Peter Mackie's idea of giving lectures, and write a popular account of his travels, thinks he should accept the Cambridge University Press offer.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 23 June 1922 - Saw [William] Hardy who says he has asked Sir Peter Mackie for permission to use the expedition fund for publishing the reports; discusses a meeting he had with [Alfred?] Waller of the [Cambridge University] Press, thinks there might be better terms from Oxford University Press, with help from [R. R.] Marett; is happy with the room Trinity has given him for his library; asks if he has J. H. Hutton's book, 'The Sema Nagas', which seems first-rate.

Hotel Belle Vue, Monnetier-Mornex, Haute-Savoie, France. Dated 8th July 1923 - Has read the proofs of the third volume and congratulates him; it seems clear they cannot expect more funds from Sir Peter [Mackie] for another expedition; is happy and proud to consider him among his best friends; wonders if the second volume is out; the editor of the 'Literary Supplement' cut the last paragraph in which he praised the book and the expedition.

Lanfine, Hills Road, Cambridge. Dated 27th January 1924 - Has been busy preparing his lectures; has not seen Haddon yet; are settling in to the house; does not know where the funding for a second expedition will come from, have not heard from Sir Peter Mackie for some time; [William] Crooke's death is a loss to anthropology and folklore; asks what he thinks of the country under a Labour government, who have sent the Ambassador [R. M. Hodgson] 'to make friends with the blood-stained bandits of Russia'; is sorry they are not closer.

Midland Grand Hotel, London. Dated 18th October 1924 - Is sorry to hear about the death of Sir Peter Mackie, which ends hopes for funding a second expedition, perhaps he should try to get attached to the Boundary Commission [Arthur] Hinks mentioned; is happy with the room he has at Trinity for his library; has met Clark [Louis Coville Gray Clarke], the new Curator of the Anthropological Museum at Cambridge.

Corraith, Symington, by Kilmarnock [on mourning stationery] - The money has been lodged with the Royal Society, and invested as a War Loan until Roscoe's Expedition is ready to set out; the delay is unfortunate, but a wise one; his only son Logan died in Palestine in December, taking a Turkish position outside Jerusalem; asks what she thinks of Russia now, and the result of Socialism; the idea of Socialism is to prevent man from rising; sends her a copy of 'The Keeper's Book', suggests she read the Preface but not the Introduction, which would be a waste of time; he is only a common vulgar tradesman trying to make 'filthy lucre which the intellectuals claim to despise'.

51 South Street, Mayfair, W. - Is delighted Sir James is to be honoured [with the Frazer Lectureship on Social Anthropology?]; Roscoe is doing well, hears he got £1000 for his last book; has been busy, things are very bad, no money in the proper hands, Labour has it and 'they are not educated or civilized, social barbarians'.

51 South Street, Mayfair, W. - Phillip Mills [James Philip Mills?], a young anthropologist home from India would like to meet Sir James, was going to arrange the meeting himself, but has to leave until the end of the month.

Majestic Hotel, Harrowgate - Is busy bathing and resting; bought 180 copies of 'Passages from Black', there are 700 left; is sorry they did not meet Mills [James Philip Mills?], who has now returned to India; is sorry about [John] Roscoe, he has a splendid chance but is a poor lecturer, when he lectured before the Provost and Professors in City Chambers Glasgow, he spoke 'Piffle' when he had so much to tell.

10 Royal Crescent, Bath - Will be happy to see Peter Mackie in the afternoon, is working on 'Novissima Verba' and a new edition of 'The Calendar of Great Men'; would have liked to meet Sir James in Bath, was just reading his latest book with his daughter.