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Empire Hotel, Bath - Arranges to meet in Bath, Lady Boyd Dawkins will likely be there; is impressed Frazer gets 5 hours of work done a day.

Richmond Lodge, Bowdon, Cheshire - Is very happy with the proposed gift to the Boyd Dawkins Library; last year she asked George Macmillan to keep an eye on Professor Sayce; reacts to Professor Conway's childishness, says he is a man of moods and prejudices, but his whims are a small price to pay for contact with his mind.

at Underhill Farm, Longnor, Buxton - Wonders what they have been doing since Professor Sayce's death; misses Sayce terribly, but has 'righted' herself; admires Lady Frazer for her spirit; is writing from a farmhouse enclosed within no less than 4 gated fields.

From The Reverend The Master, S. Catharine's College, Cambridge - Four letters concerning answering Frazer's query about Elamite texts, mentioning [Vincent] Scheil, [Peter] Jensen, [Emmanuel] Cosquin, [A. H.] Sayce, and the goddesses Pa-ar-ti and Vashti.

Hyères, Hotel Continental - Émile Nourry writes under his nom de plume P. Saintyves: they are on holiday by doctor's orders; thanks him for his support of Professor Sayce; when he is in Paris in May, hopes he may meet René Maunier, the president of le Société du Folklore; he has no doubt heard of the death of Madame Salomon Reinach; offers his congratulations for the Frazer lectures volume; is working on a book on the cult of water in France.

[Blind embossed stamp:] 29 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park - Discusses Flood legends and the latest research by [Arno] Poebel, [Stephen] Langdon, and [A. H.] Sayce; has been working for the Admiralty in Intelligence and has been busy.

Asks for the loan of Sidgwick's copies of the letters that passed between him and [Sayce] in the Times 'on the great BIRCH BEECH question.' States that he is 'collecting some evidences of [Sayce]'s fitness to sit in judgment of Biblical Antics'.