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108 Rue du Bac, Ségur - Thanks Frazer, and says his support, with that of Boule, l'abbé Breuil, Lévy-Bruhl, and Freud, is infinitely precious to him.

Cherry Cottage, Abinger Common, Dorking, Surrey. - Thanks Robert for his 'fine gift' [the first volume of his "Collected Works"]; has been 'dipping into it' since it arrived on Friday, enjoying much but missing some things due to her ignorance of classical mythology. Liked Desmond [MacCarthy]'s review, and hopes Robert was 'satisfied'; if Desmond is right Robert must go on with his young man in China and his perigrinations[s] to the priests and wise men'. Thinks the book is 'beautifully' printed and worthy of a collection 'meant for posterity'. Is 'no fit company' for a walk at present; encourages Robert to come for tea. The beautiful sunny weather is not calming her spirit as it should; thinks her current low mood was started by a review in the "TLS" of 'Freud's dreadful new book' ["Moses and Monotheism"]; wishes for 'old age! and a nice indifference to such horrid things'. Passes on in a postscript Sprigge's anticipation of a 'day snatched from work' to read Robert's poems.

Pembroke, Barwell, Leicester - Has just bought the 12-volume 'Golden Bough' and admires it; Sir Wallis Budge's 'From Fetish to God [in Ancient Egypt]' and Professor Freud's 'Totem and Taboo' made him want to read it.

Oberbozen, Bolzano (Alto Adige), Italy. Dated 30.1.23 - Is writing a review of the abridged GB for 'Nature' and expresses his admiration; has been reading some of the Freudian stuff in the anthropological line: their psychology isn't nonsense 'but their Anthropology is vile'; is writing up the sexual chapters of his material; [Edvard] Westermarck says he is preparing new volumes about Morocco.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated April 8th 1920 - At a meeting of the Committee of the Expedition [William] Mackie offered another £1000 for the fund, which had been invested in War Loans which had lost value; is planning on writing a fuller report on the expedition for 'Man'; have moved back into the Middle Temple flat, Lilly still has a racking cough; spent a day in Cambridge and saw various friends (W. J. Lewis, J. W. Capstick, and J. J. Thomson, but not Henry Jackson), and has been offered an honorary degree; has had a friendly letter from [William] Ridgeway; has a copy of 'Totemism and Taboo' by 'a German or Austrian psychologist [Sigmund Freud], who borrows most of his facts from me', 'he seems to have a great vogue with some people'.