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The fourth notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter XXI is continued from Add.Ms.b.103. Contents: ff 1-5 Chapter XXI (cont'd); ff 6-12 Calculations 'Copied from the Loose Papers': miscellaneous (ff 6-12), proof for Bertrand's Postulate (ff 13-16), reciprocal functions (ff 16-25), approximate summations of series involving prime numbers (ff 25-44), 'Middle of a paper?' on moduli (ff 45-55), 'The Three Quarterly Reports f the late S. Ramanujan, to the Board of Studies in Mathematics, when he was a Research Scholarship-holder', 5 August and 7 November 1913 and 9 March 1914 (ff 64-118).

Letter from O. M. Dalton to [Henry] Mayhew [both of the British Museum]; letter from Mayhew to Canon Musgrave (with envelope); three letters from Canon Musgrave to the Master of Trinity [Henry Montagu Butler]; letter from Butler to the Librarian [Robert Sinker].

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 23-24 November 1920 - On the 23rd, he writes he has heard that a long account of the expedition was published in 'The Daily Mail' and is sorry to hear that such a 'low and vulgar paper' should have the first report of a scientific expedition, 'even Sir Peter Mackie is probably not a good judge as to the proper mode of publishing the results'. On the 24th he says he has written [Sir Peter Mackie] that a full report should be deferred until after the dinner; Lilly has written their friend [Wickham Steed] of 'The Times' about it.

Ovington Rectory, Thetford. Dated 25 November 1920 - Writes his side of the story concerning the article in the 'Daily Mail', condoned by Sir Peter Mackie so that he felt he had no choice; does not believe Mackie is giving him a dinner, and no one at the Royal Society has mentioned a speech; finds the muddle most distasteful and is sorry Frazer is away.

Midland Grand Hotel, London. Dated 18th October 1924 - Is sorry to hear about the death of Sir Peter Mackie, which ends hopes for funding a second expedition, perhaps he should try to get attached to the Boundary Commission [Arthur] Hinks mentioned; is happy with the room he has at Trinity for his library; has met Clark [Louis Coville Gray Clarke], the new Curator of the Anthropological Museum at Cambridge.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 25th July 1924 - Thanks him for his [published Frazer] lecture ['Immigrants and their Influence in the Lake Region of Central Africa']; Edward Clodd suggested seeing if the Geographical Expedition would fund a second expedition, and saw [Arthur] Hinks, who also mentioned the Boundary Commission going to Lake Rudolph and Abyssinia; mentions that Lilly has eagerly taken up the idea for another expedition and should not be surprised if she succeeds in organizing and financing it 'as well as she did the first; for we owe the Mackie fund entirely to her'; they have sold Lanfine.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 4th June 1924 - [Arthur] Keith thinks his nomination to the Royal Society should be deferred at present; received an Honorary Degree at Manchester, where Sir Henry Miers is strongly in favour of anthropological teaching and a fine collection has been presented there by Dr [Walter?] Heape; gave him the news of the house in Cambridge in the last letter so won't repeat it; his library should be installed at Trinity by now; admires the work evident in 'The Bagesu'.

Lanfine, Hills Road, Cambridge. Dated 7 March 1924 - Is sorry the expense of publishing his [Frazer] lecture is his, hopes to remedy this in future; has not heard from [William] Ridgeway; saw Bishop [Thomas Wortley] Drury at St. Catharine's; is sorry there are no congenial men in his neighbourhood; sees parallels between the use of children in ritual in 'The Banyankole' and ancient Greek ritual; asks if he has seen P. A. Talbot's 'Life in Southern Nigeria' and E. S. Hartland's 'Primitive Paternity'; gave his last lecture and is glad they are over.

Lanfine, Hills Road, Cambridge. Dated 1 March 1924 - Received his last volume, 'The Bagesu' and congratulates him; asks if he has seen [Robert] Rattray's book 'Ashanti'; is almost done with his lectures at Cambridge; saw A. B. Cook and his wife, the second volume of his 'Zeus' will not be out for some time.

Lanfine, Hills Road, Cambridge. Dated 27th January 1924 - Has been busy preparing his lectures; has not seen Haddon yet; are settling in to the house; does not know where the funding for a second expedition will come from, have not heard from Sir Peter Mackie for some time; [William] Crooke's death is a loss to anthropology and folklore; asks what he thinks of the country under a Labour government, who have sent the Ambassador [R. M. Hodgson] 'to make friends with the blood-stained bandits of Russia'; is sorry they are not closer.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 8th October 1923 - Returns the proof of the preface to the third volume; is busy, will attend the Congress of the History of Religion; proof-corrections, and preparations to make for their return.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 13th September 1923 - Never received his letter with a proof of the preface to the third volume; is glad to hear that Norman is safe [in Japan?]; is happy to hear of the Canonry of Rochester, a proper position for a researcher, would be happy to serve as a reference but reminds him his name might not be an advantage in some quarters, does not know Lord Cave's theological or ecclesiastical opinions and position.

Hotel Lutetia, 43 Boulevard Raspail, Paris. Dated 4 September 1923 - Thinks their letters have crossed; are expecting to hear from [George] Kett as to the date their house will be finished; thinks a meeting at the Royal Society will not happen until October, and Haddon will not be there, as he is in Australia advising on a study of all native races in their dominions.

Hotel Belle Vue, Monnetier-Mornex, Haute-Savoie, France. Dated 23 July 1923 - Thinks there should be a map in his third volume; and the dates and route of the expedition should be detailed in a preface.

Hotel Belle Vue, Monnetier-Mornex, Haute-Savoie, France. Dated 8th July 1923 - Has read the proofs of the third volume and congratulates him; it seems clear they cannot expect more funds from Sir Peter [Mackie] for another expedition; is happy and proud to consider him among his best friends; wonders if the second volume is out; the editor of the 'Literary Supplement' cut the last paragraph in which he praised the book and the expedition.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 9th May 1923 - Is glad he is to lecture at Cambridge, but given his relationship to the lecture, he cannot advise on a subject; is glad to hear that a third volume is going to press.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 23d. April 1923 - Hasn't received the first volume of ['The Bakitara or Banyoro'] from him but has for the purposes of review from 'The Times' and thanks him for his reference to his help; gives him the title of Driberg's book ('The Lango, a Nilotic Tribe of Uganda'); hope to move into their house in September or October.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 14th. April 1923 - Returns the proofs of the preface, looks forward to the publication of both volumes, especially as he has not seen the first; plan to return to England in May and spend the summer in Scotland.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 22 February 1923 - Thanks him for the proofs of the second volume; he and Lilly have not been entirely well; hopes to speak at the Renan centenary on the 28th; shall miss [Herbert Vaughan] Cox very much; saddened by the death of John Sutherland Black.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 9th January 1923 - Is sorry to have missed reading a large number of the proofs of his second volume; is sorry to hear of [Arthur] Keith's illness; is puzzled by Haddon's remark about [not wanting items from?] Africa at the museum [of Archaeology and Ethnology]; Lilly has begun a French translation of the abridged G.B.; is making a translation of Ovid's Fasti.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 23 June 1922 - Saw [William] Hardy who says he has asked Sir Peter Mackie for permission to use the expedition fund for publishing the reports; discusses a meeting he had with [Alfred?] Waller of the [Cambridge University] Press, thinks there might be better terms from Oxford University Press, with help from [R. R.] Marett; is happy with the room Trinity has given him for his library; asks if he has J. H. Hutton's book, 'The Sema Nagas', which seems first-rate.

Madingley Hall, Madingley, by Cambridge. Dated 29th October 1922 - Congratulates him on being made an honorary canon by his Bishop; thanks him for the proofs, his lectures are almost over and will be published as the second volume of 'The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead'; hopes funds will be forthcoming for the second expedition he is planning.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 31 December 1921 - Is in Paris, where he gave a lecture at the Sorbonne in front of 700 people; is having a bust made by Bourdelle who will present it to the Museum of the Luxembourg; Lilly's translation of 'Adonis' is out and she is busy getting other books translated; has been asked to write the preface to Malinowski's Trobriand book and [C. W.] Hobley's book.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 9 September 1921 - Asks him to send him the proofs of his popular account of the Mackie Expedition as well as the serious account, as it is a stimulus to his own work; thanks him for his 'Twenty-five Years in East Africa'; asks him to include the information that in the performance of certain rites, the performer had to be a person whose parents were both alive, a rule he has seen elsewhere; is sorry not to see him in Edinburgh, did not have time to prepare a presidential address so had to resign the presidency.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 8th March 1921 - Advises him to diregard 'rubbish' printed in the press; has seen Mr Driburgh [recte Driberg?] and gave him an introduction to [George] Macmillan; the photos in the 'Illustrated London News' are very striking.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 3 February 1921 - Reports on the meeting of the Royal Society: he is to speak on the 10th, there was an objection to inviting the Editor of the London Illustrated News; the balance of the funding should be used towards the expense of publishing the results, and discusses options.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 31 January 1921 - The Royal Society will ask him to give a report on his expedition; Abbé Breuil will give an illustrated lecture on prehistoric caves; is pleased to hear the King has asked the Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill to consult him; asks for a list of those he wishes invited to hear the lecture, suggests Churchill and Sir Herbert Read.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 10th December 1920 - Recommends he follow Sir Peter Mackie's idea of giving lectures, and write a popular account of his travels, thinks he should accept the Cambridge University Press offer.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 5 Dec. 1920 - Is sorry the Royal Society dinner was dull; is preparing a speech to the Ernest Renan Society; wonders if he can recommend anyone to take the Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, thinks A. R. Brown is standing for it, 'an able but eccentric man'.

Hotel Lutetia, Paris. Dated 27 November 1920 - Writes in response to Roscoe's defense of the interview with the 'Daily Mail', and states that he could not have done anything else, shares his distate for interviews; does not know the protocol for the Royal Society dinners and thinks he should trust [Arthur] Keith to guide him through it.