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1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 3 September 1920 - Suggests he stop in Egypt to look at the monuments on the way home; Sir Peter Mackie received a Baronetcy, the Ridgeways were congratulatory on the honorary degree and Royal Society fellowship, but he has not heard from Haddon or Rivers; has met Colonels Shakespear and Gurdon, who did anthropology work in Assam; threat of a coal strike.

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.

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, E.C. Dated 24 August, 1917 - There is a good prospect to send [John] Roscoe out for a year among the Central African tribes, as the money has been donated, the Bishop has consented, but Secretary Long thinks they should wait until the end of the war, which Frazer deplores, and has written to Lord Bryce about; 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' is at the printers, received a MS from Colonel Gurdon about the hill tribes of Assam which he hopes to publish; trusts they have escaped submarines on their passages back and forth to Jersey; wonders if he could make out a case for Jersey being Ithaca, as a Frenchman [Théophile Cailleux?] a few years ago thought he discovered Troy on the top of the Gog Magog hills near Cambridge.

Memling Palace Hotel, Bruges. Dated 19th October, 1921 - Thanks him for his support for his candidature for the Bengali post at Cambridge suggests that Professor Rafson [Edward James Rapson] might be able to help.

10 Wood Lane, Highgate, London, N.6. Dated 12th. March 1921 - Apologises for troubling him on the telephone with his request and asks for the lists on the terms of relationship used among the tribes in Assam, as given him by Colonel Gurdon.

Memling Palace Hotel, Bruges - Thanks him for his support for his candidature for the Bengali post at Cambridge; suggests that Professor [Edward James] Rapson might be able to help.