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Turvey Rectory, Bedford - Encloses a letter from a friend's daughter, Bessie J. Black, providing information about the socialist "Ruskin House" in Heacham, a school supported by the Fabian Society and run by [Bellerby] Lowerison, a man she doesn't know. Harriet notes that Bessie's mother is one of the Neville-Rolfes of Heacham Hall, Norfolk, and is descended from Pocahontas; Harriet's recent stay in Felixstowe coincided with the disaster in the North Sea [the Dogger Bank incident].

Houghton, Huntington - Was born in 1863, and is the seventh son of the seventh son and considered lucky, was asked to go into new houses to strew salt in the corners of rooms, on hearths and thresholds, and was offered money to throw dice for people in raffles; offers comments on points in 'The Golden Bough'; if Frazer would like to meet, he offers a cup of tea 'in one of the most beautiful villages in England', cites John Marr as a reference; expects no answer but on the postcard enclosed [postcard is still attached].

Houghton, Huntington - Says he will be very happy if the Frazers could visit, and could take them on the river; he ran an experimental rationalist school and now has all his savings in a fruit farm, which he warns against; is very happy in that part of England; Frazer has done the biggest work since Darwin. Pages of the letter are numbered, but missing pages 5-6, or the last sheet is misnumbered; on them he thanks Frazer for a book; a landlady born c 1802 used to ornament her hearth and threshold with scrolls with a kind of rune inside, which 'kept bad things out'.