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Add. MS b/37/136 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
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1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 7th July 1920 - Lists who he saw in Cambridge at the honorary degree ceremony: Arthur Balfour, the Ridgeways, [William?] Cox, A. B. Cook, Henry Jackson, who is frail; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; Sir Peter Mackie has given £3500 in total to the expedition; will send a copy of an article on his work among the Bahima in 'Man'; comments on the customs of the Banyoro; is interested in measurement of all kinds; have seen much of Malinowski; Lilly is much better and editing an anthology of recent French poetry for Oxford University Press, and has a big scheme in mind for developing French in Britain.

Add. MS b/37/140 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
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1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 3 September 1920 - Suggests he stop in Egypt to look at the monuments on the way home; Sir Peter Mackie received a Baronetcy, the Ridgeways were congratulatory on the honorary degree and Royal Society fellowship, but he has not heard from Haddon or Rivers; has met Colonels Shakespear and Gurdon, who did anthropology work in Assam; threat of a coal strike.

Add. MS b/36/28 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

6 Chenies St. Chambers, W.C. Dated 1900 - Dr [Wilhelm] Dörpfeld will not be coming to Cambridge this year; spent two days with him at Brasenose; thanks her for the hint about [Lucy] Ridgeway, she will try to 'set it all straight'.