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Four letters. The letters of 22, 24, 27 Dec 1909 questioning him on anthropological relationship terminology used in India and allied anthropological inquiries. The letter of 28 June 1914 thanks him for his congratulations on his knighthood.

Mostyn House, Cambridge - Says Christopher Gimson will be delighted to see his work in 'Folklore' but asks Frazer not to mention his own role in getting the notes to him. Mr Francis [?] has been reading Frazer's 'Sir Roger de Coverley' with pleasure.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 13th Dec. 1916 - Thanks him for the pamphlet, ['Ancient Stories of the Great Flood']; is distracted as his son David is reading 'Histoire de M. Blanc' by Lilly Frazer aloud; is in a state of constant anxiety regarding his older boys [James, Martin, and William]: one wounded two years ago is at the Front, another is flying seaplanes [William Louis Anderson?], the third doing light duty while he recovers from an injury shortly after receiving the military cross.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 10th December 1915 - Accepts an invitation to tea; [Sir William] Ridgeway, [Edmund Crosby] Quiggin and others were praising Frazer in the Combination Room; as for his three boys serving in the war [William, Martin, and James] his sapper boy who was wounded in January is off again to the Mediterranean, and the other two boys are in Flanders; has been writing a note to a French girl whose brother is missing and whose brother-in-law died at Verdun.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 19th May 1914 - Encloses a letter from his son [James?], who is assistant political officer in Simla; Haddon thought he would like to see it; has been reading proofs of E. A. Gait's paper on the Census; asks if he heard that Sylvain Lévi was called by a reporter to comment on Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel prize, 'on the ground that a learned Israelite would sure know something about "le rabbin Tégoro"'; [Sir William] Ridgeway is perturbed about Ulster, and took a leading part in the demonstration on Parker's Piece, but it was not well attended.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 25th July 1912 - Has been ill and has much enjoyed reading his 'Letters of William Cowper'; was ill because he was sitting in a draught listening to Rabindranath Tagore, whose work he admires; his neighbour Dr [Owen Charles?] Whitehouse admires Cowper and is pleased to hear Frazer has published his letters.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue. Dated 5th June 1911 - Asks if he knows of tribes who are 'only admitted to civilised society or religious rights on condition of bearing some opprobrious name' as it might reassure the Chang people, admitted to Hinduism as Chandals, a name originally applied to a 'monstrous union' between forbidden Hindu degrees.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 27th March 1910 - Passes on the permission from [Philip] Gurdon for Frazer to quote from [Sidney] Endle's book; is 'ploughing slowly through' Satis Chandra Ghos's book on the Chakmas.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 14th March 1910 - Writes about the winds in the Khasi hills in answer to his enquiry, and lists the names of the intermediate points of the compass, the four 'Kons'; is just back from reading E. A. Gait's paper on the Indian Census to the Society of Arts.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 8th Febr. 1910 - Sends the MS of Mr Endle's work on the Bodos, which he has been given to edit and which has notes on totemistic clans; Endle knew the Kacharis well.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 26th December 09 - Feels qualms about being cited as the source for palti polygamy, and thinks he should cite Syama Caran Sirkar's [Shama Churun Sircar's] 'Introduction to the Bengali Language' which mentions it; is a retired member of the Indian Colonial Service, but it has been many years since he left Bengal.

Mostyn House. Dated 22.12.1909 - Apologises for his error in his account of great-grandparents in Bengal, and sends a correction.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated December 22nd 1909 - Bengalis don't marry any blood relations at all; hoped the list he sent might indicate some previous stage of classification; is ignorant of Hindu Law, but mentions that Kulin Brahmins marry only into a palti or corresponding family, resulting sometimes in polygamy; thanks him for the [anthropological] questions, wishes he had them when among the Assam Hill people, thinks E. [Edward] Stack would have done good work if he had had them then.

Mostyn House, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Dated 21st December 1909 - Encloses a list of Bengali relationships [transcribed], as requested.