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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.