Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 15 December 1907 - Is glad he has arrived safely at Mombasa; has accepted the chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Liverpool, which has no salary but no responsibilities, plans to lecture on totemism; has a plan of promoting anthropological research from Liverpool, would like to fund an eighteen month expedition to Western Australia by [Baldwin] Spencer and [Francis] Gillen and would like to fund Roscoe so that he could give himself wholly to anthropological work in Central Africa; asks how long he is committed to the C.M.S., and thinks they have not kept faith with him; asks if he would work exclusively in anthropology, and for details on where and when he would work in Central Africa and for what money; his stepdaughter [Lilly Grove] is doing well at her school in Bristol as a French teacher and will join them for Christmas; hopes Mr [Geoffrey Francis?] Archer will send more notes on the Lake Rudolph tribes; [Alfred] Hollis, [C. W.] Hobley, and Lord Mountmorres (via Dr Richard Caton) have distributed a large number of anthropological questions.
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].
1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, E.C. Dated 21st June, 1914 - Further discussion of funding source for outfitting his expedition, Sir David Bruce doesn't think the Royal Society would, thinks the Colonial Office might, so has written [Arthur] Shipley to ask for a good word with [Herbert] Read; is sending [William] Routledge's book on the Kikuyu and [A. C.] Hollis's two books on the Masai and the Nandi.
Dartmouth House, 47 Dartmouth Park Hill, N.W. Dated May 21 '08 - Has been reading 'Adonis, Attis & Osiris' and offers some notes from his experience in Africa: on kings responsible for drought, the human wives of the python god, reincarnation of the dead, sacred stones to heal barrenness [this witnessed with H. B. Johnstone, the Vice Consul in Tunis], fire worship, worship of springs or volcanoes, the new birth, and a special virtue ascribed to genital organs
Dartmouth House, 47 Dartmouth Park Hill, N.W. Dated Sept. 3 '08 - Does not know if the Taveta Clans and families are exogamous; shares recent additions to his book: on first wives, and on names of clans.
Dartmouth House, 47 Dartmouth Park Hill, N.W. Dated May 27 '08 - Has a fair knowledge of East African tribes and is happy to help; is enclosing information on East Africa totems [transcribed]; is staying with [A. C.?] Haddon for Whitsuntide.
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 Oct. 10th. '09 - Adds to his previous information on sexual communism of the Masai; has consulted Lenana [Olonana ole Mbatian], the Chief Medicine Man of the Masai.
Nairobi. Dated Oct. 17 '09 - Encloses tables giving the classificatory forms of relationiship of the Duruma tribe [not transcribed]; describes who the Wa-Nyika are; gives information on their location, and mentions an enclosed sketch [not transcribed].
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.