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2 Salisbury Villas, Cambridge - Thanks him for the second edition of the 'Golden Bough'; relays the Cambridge news: the new museum scheme is going forward, a collection of Malay MSS and books has been presented to the library by [Richard] Wilkinson, [A. C.] Haddon is back, the Newalls are going to Padang to view the eclipse, suggests Frazer use them as a source for research, he is teaching Mrs Newall Malay, an apt pupil; is helping [William] Crooke with the new edition of Yule's 'Hobson-Jobson', Mrs Bensly and Dr [James] Hough have died; discusses masterships of Peterhouse and Queens' College; had a good time at the Trinity Feast.

Rathfarnham, Camberley, Surrey - Tells two Indian stories that are parallels to Cadmus; [William?] Crooke's death was a blow, an old friend from Trinity College Dublin days.

20 Imperial Square, Cheltenham [on mourning paper] - Congratulates Frazer [on the award of the Order of Merit] as an old and valued friend of her husband.

Rathfarnham, Camberley, Surrey. Dated 2/8/24 - Tells two Indian stories that are parallels to Cadmus; Brooke's [recte William Crooke's?] death was a blow, an old friend from Trinity College Dublin days.

Barlavington Manor, Petworth - Thanks him for his letter; helped the publisher with [William] Crooke's 'Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India'; thanks him for his review of his book ['Folklore of Bombay'?] in 'The Times'; his chief object was to pay tribute to A. M. T. Jackson, murdered in 1909; would like to discuss making something of [J. M.] Campbell's notes on the spirit basis of belief and custom; is interested in Vol. I of 'The Worship of Nature', has tried in vain to interest the educated class in India in their history or social customs; encloses an offprint, 'Devaks in the Deccan and Konkan', from 'The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay' [FRAZ/17/37] and a parody of an ethnological article, 'The Hill Tribes of India' [FRAZ/17/36], a satire on British society at Simla that he sent to [G. T.] Chesney, editor of the 'Pioneer', and which was printed as a serious article.

Lyncroft, Wisbech, Cambs. Dated 10th July 14 - Has written up the material in the first chapters of a book, is going to see [William] Crooke at Cheltenham, hopes to meet Frazer in the summer.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 10 December 1918 - Thanks him for the recommendation to receive the honorary degree from Oxford; one of his boys killed in the war was educated there; has just passed 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' to Dr Gaster to review.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 16th February 1915 - Passes on a note he has read by C. O. Hanson (on the staff of the Forestry School in the Forest of Dean) in 'Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club' stating that mistletoe in the Forest of Dean is not found on oak trees.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 28.4.1914 and 15th January 1915 - Has been reading 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris' and informs him crimson wallflowers are called 'Bloody Warriors' where he lives, because they only grow on battlefields. In the letter of 15th Jan., he writes it is hard to concentrate with three sons preparing for service abroad; repeats the crimson wallflower story.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 20th April 1914 - Admires the latest edition of 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 8th February 1912 - Sends an extract [not transcribed or identified].

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 29 May 1911 - Congratulates him on completing 'The Golden Bough'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 26 June 1909 - Sends an extract from [William] Bartram's 'Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians', about a Seminole king threatening to command thunder and lightning.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 29 August 1908 - Has been reading ['Statues of Three Kings of Dahomey' in 'Man' and sends an extract [transcribed] about 'Thalavetti-parothiam', or authority obtained by decapitation from T. K. Gopal Panikkar's 'Malabar and its Folk, a Systematic Description of the Social Customs and Institutions of Malabar'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 15 and 28 February 1908 - Sends a quotation about the Persian king Shah Abbas, and how he dealt with an omen of danger, an excerpt from [John] Malcolm's, 'History of Persia'; in the second letter he sends something similar [not transcribed] from [John] Stevens, a translation of [Pedro] Teixeira's [History of Persia].

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 14 November 1907 - Sends extracts and references relating to totemism in India.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 1st Nov. 1907 - Sends information on totemism and taboo of the Khasis.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 29 April 1907 - Encloses references for the Dāsīs, or South Indian dancing girls. A second note dated the same day and above the transcription of the reference list gives further references found later that day.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 26 September 1906 - Has been reading 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris' and suggests other stories and practices related to the cutting up of the body of Osiris.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 21 September 1906 - Thanks him for 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris'; is reading [Edgar] Thurston's 'Ethnographic Notes in Southern India' and is finding much that is new.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 1 November 1905 - In answer to Frazer's query about his opinion of Frazer's 'Fortnightly' articles ['The Beginnings of Religion and Totemism among the Australian Aborigines'] he agrees that [Andrew] Lang's theory of exogamy is wrong and offers another theory concerning touching the blood of a clansman.

13 Alexandra Road, Gloucester - Thanks him for his kind words about Walter Map's 'De nugis curialium' which he edited for the Cymmrodorion Society; is happy to hear how Lady Frazer has been employing her time ['Leaves from the Golden Bough'?]; delighted to hear that [John] Roscoe is giving the Frazer lecture at Cambridge; his friend Dr [William] Crooke has died.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 31 October 1905 - Thanks him for 'Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship'.

Tregenna Castle Hotel, St. Ives, Cornwall. Dated 27 February 1905 - Offers additional stories of sympathetic magic, involving crocodile testicles in Nepal and images of dough and wax in [L. A.] Waddell's 'Tibetan Buddhism'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 15 January 1905 - Sends an extract concerning a Toda legend about sun catching from I. W. Brecks [recte J. W. Breeks], 'An Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilagiris'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 15 December 1904 - Sends the extract about the tiger wedding, from Rev. G. Richter, 'Manual of Coorg, a Gazetteer of the Natural Features of the Country and the Social and Political Condition of its Inhabitants'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 1st September 1904 - Was pleased to meet him in person; sends a few notes for the second edition of the GB [not transcribed].

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 12 September 1904 - Sends some notes [transcribed] on a variety of beliefs and practices from Sir J. G. Scott's new 'Gazetteer of Upper Burma'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 5 February 1904 - Mentions two items from [Rudolph von] Ihering's 'The Evolution of the Aryan': the Roman tradition of the key to a woman's womb, and his speculation on the origin of divination.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 5 August 1902 - Has been reading Frazer's 'Pausanias' and suggests a passage in Martin Hang [recte Haug], 'Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsees' about the two kinds of ashes for sacred fires.