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Saint Blaise - Has written a novel, 'Zidji' about conditions of the black race in South Africa, asks Frazer to write a preface for an English edition; the ethnographical work ['The Life of a South African Tribe'] is going on, but subscriptions are coming in small numbers only.

Saint Blaise (Switzerland) - Sends a copy of a paper he has published [not present] and the prospectus [present, headed 'The Life of a South-African Tribe', with a note of support by Frazer and James Bryce], hopes it sheds new light on the Banta.

Saint Blaise - Concerning the new edition [of 'Les Ba-Ronga', later entitled 'The Life of a South African Tribe'], he was rejected by Macmillan and is now going to try to publish via subscription; his friend Dr [James?] Bryce has suggested he get Frazer to write a supporting statement; [Charles Arnold] van Gennep suggested that the future International Ethnographical Institute might wish to publish the book.

Saint Blaise (Switzerland) - After publishing his 'Les Ba-Ronga' he was sent Frazer's Anthropological questions by E. S. Hartland, which inspired new research, the result of which he wishes to publish, and asks for help; with typed enclosure headed 'Plan for the Publication of a New Ethnographical Work entitled The Life of a South African Tribe'.

c/o Sir James Donaldson, Scores Park, St. Andrews N.B. [letter of 6 November 1912] and St. Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated 6 November 1912 and 15 January, 19, 27 March 1913 - Four letters relating to an application to the Carnegie Trust in America for funding of an expedition to Central Africa. In the first letter Frazer describes meeting Sir William McCormick at Dr Sutherland Black's house, and his idea of the application to the Carnegie Trust who 'have a difficulty in finding worth objects on which to expend the large sums at their disposal'; gives advice on how to write the application; is staying with Sir James Donaldson; mentions he has heard from M. W. H. Beech who wants to study the Swahili. The letter from January reports he is sending the application to McCormick. The letter of 19 March reports McCormick had forgotten his promise to send it to the Institution via the head of the Scottish Universities Trust Dr [John] Ross; is disappointed in [Henri] Junod's second volume; is glad the missionaries of the Society of Friends are to take up anthropology, and will send him more of his [printed] anthropological questions. The letter of 27 March reports that the application has failed; regrets their short-sightedness, hopes he will not be disappointed, wonders if [R. R.] Marett or [William] Ridgeway could do something; and sends the second volume of Junod's book.

20 Dry Hill Park Road, Tonbridge. Dated October 4 [1899] - Thanks him for his answer to hers, has not yet seen [Lionel] Decle's book; clarifies where she saw the knots in the grass; suggests he cite Miss H. G. [Harriette Emily?] Colenso for the information on the Zulu warrior and ritual uncleanness; Junod refers to a curious rain-charm ceremony that she may have witnessed in part at Utumbi, West Shire, B.C.A.; suggests that Majaje, the mysterious chieftainess in the mountains north of the Transvaal is a representative of the King of the Wood.

3 Ashburnham Road, Tonbridge. Dated Sept. 25th, 1899 - Has been reading his 'Golden Bough' which she regrets not reading before going to Africa; describes an ornament worn by an old Manganje woman in the West Shire district, B.C.A.; describes long grass knotted together and the different explanations for it, including H. A. Junod's, and her speculation on the real reason, to keep the sun from going down before travellers reach home, and the stories told the white people because they wouldn't understand the other; cites a story by Miss H. G. [Harriette Emily?] Colenso of a Zulu suffering from ceremonial uncleanness after not making an incision in the corpse of the man he killed; questions Herr Speckmann's book referring to the 'idholzi' (not 'iholzi').

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey - Now has the bark from Mr Honey which looks like Erythrophloeum, but is still waiting on the specimens from the others; re: Mondjo, they have failed to trace this name and speculates that it is 'Datura fastuosa' collected by the Swiss missionary [Henri] Junod for [Hans] Schinz.