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Review of memorial volume of verse published by Alphonse Lemerre, Paris.

Office de Publicité Larousse, 19, rue de Montparnasse, Paris (6e) - Unsigned letter. Encloses the pages she chose, and has another addition, from 'Totemism and Exogamy'; also encloses 2 or 3 books that he spoke to Sir James about, and the list of selected passages. Accompanied by two sheets with lists of selections from 'Pausanias, and other Greek Sketches' on one, and 'Taboo', and 'The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings', on another, which is the verso of the last page of a letter [from Edmond Esmonin?]; with a manuscript copy of 'La Tulipe' by Théophile Gautier with pencilled note at top, 'For Sir James'.

Accompanied by the envelope with a note in Frazer's hand, 'G. Roth, Selections from my writings'.

Arlington Court, Barnstaple. - Looking forward to seeing the 'interesting things' Milnes hints at; rarely meets with anything exciting these days; regrets dispersing books and sundries on his marriage; those presented to [Sir Richard] Burton must be lost, 'being probably in the possession of the Priests of Meccah, & he poor fellow is I fear in the region from whence no one returns'; did Milnes hear a tale of his being assassinated. Wishes Milnes had had the Duke of York's copy of Fanny Hill; it was secretly given to Hodgson by Sir Henry ('Kangaroo') Cooke when the Duke ordered it destroyed; Hodgson when tired of the story rashly gave it to 'a very great man no now more' who had been shown it by a 'female Bonaparte' lover of Hodgson's. Current pursuit of clergyman's wife; her apparent innocence is at odds with her accounts of sexual activity at school and current practices with friends, some witnessed by Hodgson; she seems to prefer rôle of observer rather than participant; she once requested a condom to show a female friend, which Hodgson passed to her during prayers; it was from a packet sent by Hankey and its size amused them. Mrs Collett continues her business; the hermaphrodite's outfits; she wields a whip and prefers to be treated as a woman. Postscript: asks if Milnes has read the 'perfectly bawdy' Mademoiselle de Maupin [by Gautier], which the Parisian ladies rave about; a young woman recommended it.