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Add. MS c/58/23 · Item · 28 Feb. 1922
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

13 Alexandra Road, Gloucester - Thinks Miss [Jessie] Weston 'at least talks sense' about the puzzle of the Holy Grail; is looking forward to seeing [John] Roscoe's new book; gives a reference for the priest king of Elele; jokes that [Robert] Macalister should have located the cradle of civilisation in Ireland; is writing a book on the evolution of kinship; teases him about being 'sculped' in Paris.

Add. MS b/36/58 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, London E.C.4. Dated 26 February 1922 - Thanks him for the two papers, is glad he thinks Miss [Jessie] Weston has found the true key of the Holy Grail, is suspicious when the priest of Nemi pops up in books, 'especially when he is unmasked by a lady'; asks for the authority of the priest-king of Elele in Nigeria; has seen [John] Roscoe, who saw [Robert] Macalister and both conclude the original home of Egyptian and European civilisation will be found in the region of the African lakes; has had his bust done by [Émile] Bourdelle, of which he approves; mentions the kpelle of Liberia; asks if he has read [Edvard] Westermarck's new edition of 'History of Human Marriage' and asks his opinion of his attacks on Frazer.

Add. MS b/36/59 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

13 Alexandra Road, Gloucester. Dated 28 February 1922 - Thinks Miss [Jessie] Weston 'at least talks sense' about the puzzle of the Holy Grail; is looking forward to seeing [John] Roscoe's new book; gives a reference for the priest king of Elele; jokes that [Robert] Macalister should have located the cradle of civilisation in Ireland; is writing a book on the evolution of kinship; teases him about being 'sculped' in Paris.