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Albemarle Club, 37 Dover Street, W.1. Dated 27 Dec. 1918 - Saw [Arthur] Keith at the Athenaeum, who explained the delay with the expedition committee [of the Royal Society] is that Walter Long wants to head it but has to wait until the election to see if he is Colonial Secretary; Keith will see that funds are available after Lilly explained to him that at the Army & Navy Stores it is necessary to pay when giving an order; had a good view of the King and President Wilson driving to the palace.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 3 Feb. 1919 - More about the Royal Society committee funding Roscoe's expedition to Uganda: [Arthur] Keith is waiting to know whether [Walter] Long and Lord Milner will join the Committee; is glad an inexpensive substitute can be found, and that he will use Goverment agents in Mombasa.

No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, E.C. Dated 24 August, 1917 - There is a good prospect to send [John] Roscoe out for a year among the Central African tribes, as the money has been donated, the Bishop has consented, but Secretary Long thinks they should wait until the end of the war, which Frazer deplores, and has written to Lord Bryce about; 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' is at the printers, received a MS from Colonel Gurdon about the hill tribes of Assam which he hopes to publish; trusts they have escaped submarines on their passages back and forth to Jersey; wonders if he could make out a case for Jersey being Ithaca, as a Frenchman [Théophile Cailleux?] a few years ago thought he discovered Troy on the top of the Gog Magog hills near Cambridge.