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St. Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated 29 July 1909 - Is glad to hear he is safe back from Bunyoro, and is pleased with his description of the double system of taboos and totems for pastoral and agricultural sections of the people; advises him to pack the MSS well; has an account from [A.C.] Hollis on the Masai system of relationship, and by [Kenneth] Dundas on the Baringo district; the first volume of 'Totemism' is passed for press; was very busy in June with the Darwin celebration; Lilly has been ill; encloses an article on Howitt and Fison [not transcribed].

Nairobi, B.E.A. Dated 13/10/09 - Will be seeing Col. Roosvelt [Theodore Roosevelt] and will give him the booklet of queries [Frazer's anthropological questions]; suggests asking the Cambridge Press for the chapter on Masai marriage in his ['Ethnology of Akamba and other East African Tribes']; Hon. K. [Kenneth?] Dundas, studying the Bantu Kavirondo, has discovered the elders always kill the hereditary head chief when he is near his end.

Nairobi. Dated Sept. 26 '09 - Is glad his notes and that of [Kenneth] Dundas have been useful; has seen [C. W.]Hobley's chapter on social organization and points out their difference of opinion about intermarriage, which also different from [Moritz] Merker's; is sorry he missed [John] Roscoe, Hobley saw him for a minute on his way to the coast.

Nairobi. Dated Nov: 12 '09 - Discusses the Taveta, the only other tribe that has totemism but not exogamy like the Nandi; has just returned from Uganda and heard a great deal about [John] Roscoe; hopes Frazer will like [Kenneth] Dundas.