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Linden, Wellington, Somerset. Dated September 6, 1898 - Has received his letter and says that he needs to look at his books before he can say more about George Wilken's paper on Animal and Plant Souls as compared to Frazer's 'Golden Bough'; has been writing to Macmillan about compressing [Baldwin] Spencer's book.

The Museum House, Oxford. Dated September 15, 1898 - Regrets raising the Baldwin Spencer question [of compressing part of Spencer and Gillen's book, 'The Native Tribes of Central Australia'] as it is so late in the process.

The Museum House, Oxford. Dated October 8, 1898 - Continues to discuss the correct attribution of a theory of totemism to Wilken's 'Animism'; thinks the Spencer book ['The Native Tribes of Central Australia'] must go through as it began.

The Museum House, Oxford. Dated October 14, 1898 - Continues to discuss [George] Wilken's theory, has not been able to consult the original paper, has submitted his own paper making it clear that Frazer's argument was preceded by Wilken.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 16 October, 1898 - Replies to Tylor's letter that he is altering a statement in his paper about Frazer's citation of Wilken in his work, and maintains that he did not know Wilken's 'De Betrekking' when he wrote GB; thinks Tylor does not believe him, and in case the correspondence is to stop he expresses his great obligation to him.

The Museum House, Oxford. Dated October 19, 1898 - Regrets that Frazer thinks he is implying he is untruthful, and believes what he says about which source of [George] Wilken's he used, but thinks in the second edition of GB he should make clearer his debt to Wilken's work.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 20 October, 1898 - Thanks him for his letter in which Tylor said he believed his account of using [George] Wilken's work; is grateful for Wilken for opening up to him the field of ethnological research in the Dutch East Indies; describes the work he is doing now in Dutch literature in preparation for a new edition of GB.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 16 December, 1901 - Returns [George] Theal's letters, and thinks South African totemism squares with the Wilken-Tylor theory, not his own; has more letters from Baldwin Spencer about the totemism of new tribes; [Alfred] Howitt has sent him a chapter of his forthcoming book dealing with burial of the dead; [Otto] Siebert has given Howitt stories about the Mura-Muras among the Dieri.