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1 Brick Court, Temple. Dated 10 July 1916 - Says it is for him to decide whether to write an article for [Oric?] Bates on Africa, and makes suggestions for topics to include if he does; wonders if he might write a book of essays on these subjects; will be happy to look at his paper on Magic Miracles; questions the connection between polygamy and ultimogeniture; is studying the custom of deferring the consummation of marriage for some time.

Hotel du Vesuve, Naples. Dated April 11, 1914 - Is sending his essay 'The Eastern Libyans' in thanks for his help, with apologies for its deficiencies, is working on the ethnology and archaeology of the Southern Mediterranean; has been excavating at Marsa Matruh (Paraetonium) west of Alexandria where he has found traces of archaic Libyan occupation, will send him the report which includes the customs of the local Bedawin; outside of the Service des Antiquités, Doctors Ludwig Borchardt, G. A. Reisner, and J. H. Breasted are the only ones he has told of the results of the expedition.

Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Dated 27 July, 1914 - Thanks him for his kind letter, but is resigned to feeling that his essay may serve merely as a point of departure in its field; praises 'The Golden Bough'.