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Elmcrofts, Ripon. Dated 22nd February 1896 - Has been reading 'The Golden Bough' and sends a cutting on human sacrifice in Benin [cutting transcribed]; quotes passages on agricultural rites from 'Yorkshire Folk Talk' by his cousin Marmaduke Morris; asks his opinion of an Italian festival in which they carry 'Ceri', wooden structures with arabesque paintings on them. In a postscript, he mentions a book by [Henning Frederik] Feilberg entitled 'Dansk Bondelir' [recte 'Dansk Bondeliv']; and a funeral procession witnessed in Capri in 1895.

The University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Dated 5th May 1919 - Sends notes on the third edition of 'The Golden Bough' on a variety of topics: the name used by Odysseus in the encounter with the Cyclops; piling pebbles on tombstones in Jewish cemeteries; stoning among Greeks and Romans, serpents casting their skin, use of the rod to discover water, the ceremony of the Ceri at Gubbio, referencing H. M. Bower's work 'The Elevation and Procession of the Ceri at Gubbio'.

The University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois - Sends notes on the third edition of 'The Golden Bough' on a variety of topics: the name used by Odysseus in the encounter with the Cyclops; piling pebbles on tombstones in Jewish cemeteries; stoning among Greeks and Romans, serpents casting their skin, use of the rod to discover water, the ceremony of the Ceri at Gubbio, referencing H. M. Bower's work 'The Elevation and Procession of the Ceri at Gubbio'.