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The additional manuscript series are artificial groups containing manuscripts from various sources. Most of the contents are single items or small groups, but they include some fairly large personal archives, either arranged in sequence or scattered in various places. See the overview of the collections (https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/overview).

Finch Street, East Malvern, Melbourne. Dated 25 February, 1901 - Thanks him for the GB, which arrived in the mail, and for the mention of his daughter [Mary]'s work on Australian folklore and legends which they still hope to see printed; will see [Baldwin] Spencer before he heads to Central Australia, and [Lorimer] Fison as well; hopes to be able to devote a year to the completion of his work on the organization of native tribes.

c/o Dr Howitt, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham. Dated 20 July, 1904 - Adds a bit more to the all father discussion, mentions Billy Wombat, who lived at the Mission Station, and Julaba, who lived with Howitt for a long time; contrasts their situation with that of [Baldwin] Spencer's Arunta.

Maura, Dean Park Road, Bournemouth. Dated 21 March, 1896 - Congratulates him on his engagement; assures him there has been no coldness this term or ever, he has been busy: his brother Arthur died in December and he has been caught up in matters of his estate, and that of his father-in-law [Francis Vansittart Thornton], who died nearly a year ago.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 18th February 1898 - Thanks him for the Pausanias, notes that it is twenty-four years since he took part in Frazer's election to a minor scholarship, and it is 'pleasant to think how completely you have justified the choice'.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 30 October, 1919 - Thanks him for dedicating his book to him, congratulates himself for being on Council when they made Frazer a Student-Fellow 'one of our very best deeds'; his daughter Edith is writing to his dictation owing to eye troubles.

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated April 21 - Thanks him for reading the draft of an unidentified text ['Modern Mythology'?]; mentions the mouse and Apollo, thinks exogamy is only part of the general totem taboo.

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated April 15 - Wonders if he should add a chapter on myths and the origin of death to an unidentified work.

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated April 20 - Refers to revisions in an unidentified work: the Pest is interesting and must be hitched in as it is the most 'totemy' thing in Greece.

Chinehead, Westcliff Road, Bournemouth. Dated March 20th, 1919 - Has been reading his 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' and asks if he has notes about tests of maternal impressions; discusses sour milk superstitions, and menstrous women and milk; the clanging noises to drive away evil spirits; classical parallels to Jonah and the whale; 'jus primae noctis' and African tribal custom, and the 19th century French courtesan who connected sexual desire and ear piercing.

Berlin W.50, Marburgerstr. 6. Dated 11.8.12 - Has been travelling, but will dictate his notes tomorrow; spoke to Professor [Henry] Wyld about taking some Greek matters down on the phonograph for Mrs Frazer but the apparatus is not in Liverpool.

Woodthorpe, Atkins Road, Clapham Park, S.W. Dated July 2nd, 1902 - Has been reading the 'Golden Bough' and has a story related to the Apalai Indians who asked to be stung by ants, he tells the story of his mother from Cheshire using bee stings to ease rheumatism.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 5 February, 1917 - Discovered Frazer's 'Letters of Cowper' in the Museum, and thanks him for it; is sorry for the Germans in England, hears Waldstein [later Walston] was treated badly, hopes Miss Brent hasn't been treated badly; his sister is teaching French to soldiers going to the front; the companies of the Monmouthshire who occupied Whewell's Court left this morning; Cesare [Giuseppe Raimondo de Cesàro?] has been summoned back to Liège by the Germans.

British Embassy, Constantinople. Dated May 20th, 1914 - Thinks there is an enormous amount of anthropological material in Asia Minor which could be gathered by Consular officers, and suggests he write him a letter asking for help, which he could then send on to consular officers unofficially; an official route would be less effective.

Portarlington. Dated 26th June, 1911 - Has been reading 'Totemism and Exogamy' and discusses the Tamil system of naming extended family members and takes issue with his statement that this classification is less logical than the Seneca-Iroquois system, as pointed out by Lorimer Fison; more briefly mentions the relationship names of Nyang-speaking tribes, and the fact that the Ossetes are Aryan speaking people, and the natives of Rotuma speak not Polynesian but Melanesian.

London. Dated February 28th, 1918 - Thanks him for his testimony in his favour, 'Eulogy is not measured in its value after the man to whom it is addressed, but according to the man who gives it.'

Newlands, Clonskeagh, Dublin. Dated 17 August 1917 - Has a theory about Tara and its kingship and analogies to the Arician priesthood, and asks his opinion on a couple of points.