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Sydney - Has received his parcel with letters written by Lorimer Fison, will have copies made and the originals returned; his plans for Dr Fison's Life have been put on hold by a suggestion of Sir William MacGregor, who thinks it better to write a life of Dr George Brown, who is still alive and does not have the paper trail that Fison left.

c/o 'Sydney Morning Herald' Office, Hunter St., Sydney - Thanks him for his answer, regrets that he cannot help with something on Lorimer Fison's ethnological work; is delighted with his offer to send Fison's letters; has finished writing 'The New Pacific - British Policy & German Aims' in which he had the assistance of Dr George Brown; it gives Lorimer Fison and Sir William MacGregor equal prominence.

Sydney, N.S.W. Australia - Dr George Brown suggested he write Frazer, to ask for help in writing the life of Lorimer Fison; he has many of Fison's letters and materials from Dr Brown, and asks for a contribution from Frazer about Fison's anthropological work and achievements; has been given a copy of his article in 'Folk-Lore' by Maria [Mary?] Fison; his own family has been connected with missionary work for the last fifty years, and his uncle William Fletcher was in Fiji, and his aunt Mrs William Fletcher is sister to Dr Brown's wife; is sending a copy of 'A Century in the Pacific' with a chapter written by himself on the works of Fison, Sir William MacGregor and Brown.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 12th Dec., 1913 - Has received 'Balder the Beautiful', has measured his Frazer shelf and sees that he has multiplied it by 3 1/2 times with the second and third editions; paper stated that although no Cabinet Ministers attended a dinner with Anatole France, Frazer was there, 'a nice way of putting it'; is using the GB in his construction of a dictionary, is using something Frazer gave him on 'άγνεια'; would have sent a reprint from the Ridgeway volume with his work in it, but understands that Frazer has written away for it, and he does not want to suggest that he should read it; heard from George Brown, who had tried to contact Frazer but was told by Mrs Frazer that James was 'inaccessible', which he figures was during the final work on 'Balder'; recommends he see Brown as he will probably not be back and has amazing stories, including time with savages who the next day killed and ate a boatful of Germans.

'Kinawanua' Gordon N.S.W. Dated November 13th 1912 - Will talk to Prof. [Baldwin] Spencer about the Arunta people; encloses a note [not transcribed] about the belief of sympathetic magic, and something further he took from a woman named Mrs Atkinson about and unidentified practice; would like the Frazers to come when the British Association for the Advancement of Science comes to Australia in 1914.

'Kinawanua' Gordon N.S.W. Dated May 7th 1912 - Is sending notes he made while reading Frazer's book on Taboo [not transcribed]; is also forwarding a copy of a paper in which he disagrees with Frazer's theory [on totemism, not transcribed].

Biloa, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. Dated March 14th 1911 - Has been to Ontong Java but has conflicting answers as to the number of exogamous divisions; a German who was there will probably publish soon; asks Frazer to send one of the books [the Anthropological Questions pamphlet?] to Rev. R. C. Nicholson at Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands and another to Rev. S. R. Rooney, Bambatana, Solomon Islands.

Gordon, N.S.W. Dated Dec. 14 1910 - Is reading 'Totemism and Exogamy' and disagrees about the origin of Totemism; a missionary from Choiseul in the Solomon Islands says there are no exogamous groups there.

21 Brownswood Park, Green Lanes, Finsbury Park, N. Dated June 2, 1909 - Sends an extract [transcribed] of an account of the cremation of a body in the Shortland Group, Solomon Islands by Mr Macdonald.

Dated January 22nd 1909 - Sends an article [transcribed] ahead of their meeting about totems and nomenclatures in New Guinea, with information from Rev. W. E. Bromilow with comments on the information by [Lorimer] Fison.