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240 Charlotte Street, Ottawa - Has read the GB and 'Folk-Lore of the Old Testament' and is sending Reports of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police with ethnological information, including some making reference to the evil spirit Wendigo. Encloses his business card.

Royal North West Mounted Police, Office of the Comptroller, Ottawa - Thanks him for the Anthropological Questions and describes the steps he has taken to disseminate them among the Royal North West Mounted Police and the Indian Agencies as well, and asks for more copies; mentions the Eskimo are still very primitive, 'a few years' ago were in the Stone Age'; notices that the questions lack one about attitudes to insanity; [Charles Deering] La Nauze, the man who arrested the Eskimo murderers mentioned that they ate the liver and entrails to keep the dead men's spirits from molesting them; describes a man strangled because he was possessed by a Wendigo; suggests Frazer try the Hudson Bay Company, and mentions [Vilhjalmur] Stefansson, who probably wishes to use his anthropological observations for profit.

University Press, Cambridge - Is sending the Anthropological Questions to the people in Lieut. Col. Hamilton's letter, which he is returning.

Royal North West Mounted Police, Headquarters, Ottawa - Thanks him for the 'Anthropological Questions' he has already sent and asks for more; again mentions that there is question of attitudes to insanity, and tells some stories relating to insanity among the Eskimo.