Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Discusses the arrangements being made about her father [Baldwin Spencer's] papers and collections: photographs sent to Mr [L. C. G.] Clarke at Cambridge and the papers and letters with them to [G. J.?] Heath c/o Macmillan's; is not sure Sir James meant for her to keep her father's letters; [Henry] Balfour is giving them a chapter, and has picked out some things for the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the rest are going to Melbourne; L. Dudley Buxton has 'seldom or never examined specimens of so great an importance in my life'; she is pleased, and is pleased for Miss Hamilton, who went to such effort to get the collection back home; hopes Sir James will give some pages for the book [of selected letters]; Miss Hamilton has sailed to Australia but will return in June; her elder son [Alastair] has had measles; is going to France for the holidays, has been down to Gare Loch.
Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Has just moved in to her house and is very busy; asked if [R. R. ]Marett could come but he has to return to Oxford quickly; will be meeting with Jean Hamilton and will sort out letters and identify photos if Sir James still wishes to move ahead with the book [of Baldwin Spencer's writings] he had proposed when she saw them.
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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Would like to bring [Jean] Hamilton; describes what Miss Hamilton told her of the voyage bringing her father [Baldwin Spencer]'s body back to the mainland; Miss Hamilton looks very much older since January, and Dorothy's relatives are impressed by how well she managed everything; Dorothy is taking her on holiday with her to France.
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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Confirms arrangements to meet; [Jean] Hamilton has arrived in England and is also pleased at Sir James' idea of a book created from the notes and letters of her father [Baldwin Spencer]; Miss Hamilton confirms that [Baldwin] Spencer made no directions about his work.
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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Makes arrangements to meet; is pleased at Sir James' idea of a book created from the notes and letters of her father [Baldwin Spencer]; is expecting [Jean] Hamilton; has had a busy summer and finds a holiday in France necessary if inconveniently timed.
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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Appreciated Sir James' obituary of her father [Baldwin Spencer] in 'The Times'; would be pleased to visit them; [Jean] Hamilton's boat hasn't yet arrived; feels confident her mother [Mary Elizabeth Spencer] would agree with her to put the notes in the hands of Sir James; thanks her for the enclosures, was glad to see Dr [R. R.] Marett's particularly; she saw much of her father the last two years and encloses a photograph of him [now housed at FRAZ/17/133?].
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Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Baldwin Spencer's daughter writes that she has had a letter from her father's secretary Miss Hamilton, who was with him when he died, and who was then shipwrecked so that she could not contact the family; relates Hamilton's notes of the final days with Spencer, and that she is bringing back all his papers, which Young would like Frazer to look at.
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