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University Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology, Downing Street, Cambridge - Will see them on the 22nd and accepts an invitation to dinner on the 5th of June.

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio (Corse) - Describes the fête of the Miséricorde; he has had to make a lot of corrections to a local journal which was proposing to print some cartographic maps; has been sent an article on Moors in Corsica by Charles de Giafferi; has sent his congratulations to the Director of the Fitzwilliam [Louis Colville Gray Clarke]; mentions their situation living in Grantchester, knows she is busy looking after things while Sir James works; it must be an enjoyable annoyance having so many presents; asks about names, if Louis sounds more chic than Lewis.

Midland Grand Hotel, London. Dated 18th October 1924 - Is sorry to hear about the death of Sir Peter Mackie, which ends hopes for funding a second expedition, perhaps he should try to get attached to the Boundary Commission [Arthur] Hinks mentioned; is happy with the room he has at Trinity for his library; has met Clark [Louis Coville Gray Clarke], the new Curator of the Anthropological Museum at Cambridge.

From the Rector, Exeter College, Oxford - Has heard from Louis Clarke that they are both unwell and expresses his sympathy.

Hotel Lutetia, 45, Boulevard Raspail, Paris (6e). Dated 6 February 1923 - Is sorry to hear he has been ill; the 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific' has gotten a unanimous chorus of praise; values his opinion and thanks him for kinds words of the abridged GB; is in Paris, Lilly is making a French translation of the abridged GB and he is making an English translation of Ovid's Fasti for the Loeb Library, with glimpses of old Roman religion 'but most of the points in it have been threshed out already'; went to an interesting meeting of the Ecole d'Anthropologie, with [Louis] Capitan reading a paper of a cave discovered by Count Begouin [Begouen] in Southern France, and a communication about a tribe, the Habes, in the valley of the Niger, who have many taboos; [Alfred] Haddon doesn't have many anthropological students at Cambridge and speaks well of the new Curator of the Anthropological Museum, [L. C. G.] Clarke; [John] Roscoe's first volume should be out soon, it is interesting and valuable; is glad [Edvard] Westermarck is writing more on Morocco; hope to settle in a house being built for them in Cambridge in the autumn.

Caledonian Station Hotel, Princess Street, Edinburgh. Dated 21 November 1924 - First page only, breaks off mid-sentence. Asks for news, as it has been a long time; sends a notice of a research studentship at Trinity; his presence would help the Cambridge Anthropological School which is not flourishing, asks if he knows [L. C. G.] Clarke, the Curator of the Anthropological Museum; asks his opinion of [W. H. R.] Rivers' posthumous works; are settled in Cambridge, has a room at Trinity for his library, and sleep at the Blue Boar Hotel in Trinity Street; is giving the Gifford lectures on the Worship of Nature in Edinburgh, so far the only novelty was a suggestion that the Biblical story of the Fall of Man is of negro origin.

[Stationery of 54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse] de Cannelle d’Orcino – He has received her moving letter and says courage is necessary in these times; is glad to hear they have returned to Cambridge; thinks of those around them, what does poor [Bertrand?] Russell say, who was so generous and confident even of the Soviets; give his best wishes to [Louis Colville Gray?] Clarke who is preoccupied with the books of Lady Thomson; Catherine [Giamarchi, a niece] has returned to Ajaccio to her husband, and he has help where he is[?].

University Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology, Downing Street, Cambridge. - Re identity of wooden toy (includes sketch).

95 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris - Thanks them for the book; will be visiting Cambridge and staying with [Louis?] Clarke; his lecture is printed and the first copy will be for Sir James.

University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge - Apologises for not writing earlier, is delighted for Frazer, and notes it is the first real recognition Anthropology has ever received; accepts an invitation to visit, is busy getting the Melanesian materials out as Dr Haddon wants to use them in his lectures.

Leckhampton House, Cambridge - Thanks her for sending him notes on the proposed publication of Frazer's anthropological notebooks, thinks they would be invaluable, suggests they use his name as a supporter if it would be useful.

Fairlawn, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire - Discusses the arrangements being made about her father [Baldwin Spencer's] papers and collections: photographs sent to Mr [L. C. G.] Clarke at Cambridge and the papers and letters with them to [G. J.?] Heath c/o Macmillan's; is not sure Sir James meant for her to keep her father's letters; [Henry] Balfour is giving them a chapter, and has picked out some things for the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the rest are going to Melbourne; L. Dudley Buxton has 'seldom or never examined specimens of so great an importance in my life'; she is pleased, and is pleased for Miss Hamilton, who went to such effort to get the collection back home; hopes Sir James will give some pages for the book [of selected letters]; Miss Hamilton has sailed to Australia but will return in June; her elder son [Alastair] has had measles; is going to France for the holidays, has been down to Gare Loch.

The Old Granary, Cambridge - Is sorry to hear about Sir James' eyes; would like to order 4 copies of the bibliography; have far more students studying Anthropology than usual, no less than 30; Gregory Bateson is back from New Guinea with a great deal of material; mentions Professor Bevan's death; was in Austria in July and in Sussex in September.