Item 35-37 - Letter from R. E. Enthoven to Sir James Frazer

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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.