Fagg, William Buller. Manuscripts 6, undated and Ethel John Lindgren papers 1938-1988 (MS 502)
For abbreviations, see MS 497
Contents:
/1 Mostly Undated Miscellaneous Documents
/2 Fieldwork Material & Miscellaneous Items
/3 Business Cards etc.
/4 1937-58 Ethel John Lindgren Papers
/5 1959-88 Ethel John Lindgren Papers
/6 Undated Ethel John Lindgren Papers
/1 Mostly Undated Miscellaneous Documents
/1 Katherine Merkel to WBF, nd – will not be able to get action on the Oron King until after Christmas; asks him the name of the Valentine Fernandez book; apologises for the ‘howler‘ about MWP; on the University of Philadelphia catalogue; wishes the BM were closer to Cleveland (autogr.) [on verso:] poster with pictures of her sons and husband, wishing him a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (printed)
/2 MWP & WBF, nd – bibliography. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/3 [Peter Morton Williams] to WBF, nd – on WBF’s Ife book; on his own job; on Herbert Rieser and Maurice Cockin who are on the point of parting with their collections; gives details of both collectors; asks WBF to let him know if he is interested in either collection; on two of his own publications (tp.)
/4 Notes taken from WBF’s notes on chapters; on Ogboni artefacts and customs; on Ibeji. 2 leaves (tp. with note by Beverley Emery suggesting the author is Joan Wescott)
/5 J.H. Hutton to WBF, nd – encloses Bhils Bibliography; on putting Council meetings on later in the day; on circulating Minutes with the Agenda; on having meetings away from London (autogr.)
.1 J.H. Hutton, ‘Bibliography of references for Bhils’ (autogr.)
/5a WBF to J.H. Hutton, 5 Mar. 1940 – thanks him for the bibliography; on his objections to Council meetings away from London; on the influence of the BM; the RAI is a London institution and should meet in London; would like further discussion with him on the subject; on a meeting on 19 Mar. 3 pages (autogr.)
/5b J.H. Hutton to WBF, nd – on imputing sinister motives to the BM; asks whether the RAI is a London institution; on the Foreign Affairs Committee; on the Memorandum; explains why he does not want to come on 19 Mar. (autogr.)
/6 WBF, nd – note of the name and address of Dr Jensen (autogr.)
/7 Notes on Dr Stefan Drzewieski (tp.)
/1/8 WBF, nd – note of the name and address of Ralph Hazell (autogr.)
/9 Business card for Pilar F. Vega (printed)
/10 Ibid. for Maria Luisa Vazquez de Parga (printed)
/11 Ibid. for Mr Ian Brinkworth (printed with autogr. notes)
/12 ibid. for Dr W. Evan Anwyl (printed)
/13 Ibid. for Georges Henri Riviere (printed with autogr. note)
/14 Ibid. for José Tudela (printed)
/15 Ibid. for Mr R. de Montmorency (printed with autogr. note)
/1/16 Ibid. for T.V.A. Isvaran (printed)
/17 Ibid. for Mr Frank Worthington (printed)
/18 Ibid. for WBF (printed)
/19 Ibid. for WBF [a different one] (printed)
/20 WBF nd – text in Greek (autogr. card)
/21 Leather wallet
/22 WBF, nd – list of objects (autogr.)
/23 ‘Six Controversial Lectures’, on Dr Edmund Leach’s Reith Lectures (newspaper cutting)
/24 Invitation from Mr & Mrs Julian Huxley, to meet Francis Huxley (printed and autogr. card)
/25 […?] to WBF, 21 July [?year] – thanks him for the photo he took at the Garden Party; invites him for a visit some weekend (autogr.)
/26 F.C. Francis, information about the Association of First Division Civil Servants (British Museum Branch) (tp.)
/27 John Holness, Society of African Culture, invitation to a screening of the film ‘Lydia Bailey’ on 15 Aug. [?year] (tp.)
/28 Frances Blackett, Hon. Secretary, British League for European Freedom, to [WBF?], nd – encloses an invitation to a talk on 1 Nov. [?year]; notifies him of an Action Group meeting on 15 Nov. (tp.)
.1 British League for European Freedom, nd – invitation to a talk ‘Religion in Russia’ on 1 Nov. (printed card)
/29 Phyllis M. Langley & M.E. Duncan, British League for European Freedom, to WBF, nd – the Chairman, the Duchess of Atholl, has been ordered a fortnight’s rest in bed; asks for a small donation for a New Year’s gift to her (tp.)
/30 WBF, nd – synthesis of the views of two or three people to whom he showed Mrs Krautter’s book. 4 pages (autogr. draft)
/31 Ibid., ibid. – ibid. 3 leaves [see MS 497 passim] (autogr.)
/1/32 Cartoons. 3 leaves (printed)
/33 Mary […?] to WBF, 15 July [?year] – would love to come to the exhibition; suggests 18 July (autogr.)
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/35 Tommy [Sanderson] to WBF, 22 Jan. [?year} – thanks BEBF for sending the things they left behind; on rooms; asks about getting electric razors at cost price; mentions Christopher Reed’s death; asks if he has seen ‘The Lady Vanishes’; has received a college magazine; asks if there will be another crisis (autogr.)
/36 Dorothy Coveney to ibid., 24 Apr. [?year] – on a Prof. Nenschel who might call on him for a flat; he was professor of art at Prague who fled the Nazis; he has spent the war in Swansea; thought she should drop WBF a line; he may already have let the flat (autogr.)
/37 Fred […?], Downing College, Cambridge, to ibid., nd – thanks for the loan of ‘these’ (autogr. card)
/38 The British Council to ibid., nd – invitation to meet a group of Archaeologists from Sweden on 11 July [?year] (printed and autogr. card)
/39 Pat [Tew] to ibid., nd – was glad to read the cuttings he sent her; is staying with friends in Hammersmith who have a studio for her to work in; cannot come to town for lunch before he leaves; when he comes back in the spring she will probably be living in a houseboat by Battersea Bridge; hopes he will come and see her there (autogr.)
/40 Frans [Olbrechts] to WBF, nd – on WBF’s letter [not held]; is leaving with his wife on Monday for the Council Meeting of the Africa Institute; will be in London late on Monday; will get in touch; on WBF’s circular; thanks him for invitation to stay but cannot accept (autogr.)
/41 WBF to [a newspaper?], nd – on the word ‘fissionable’ (autogr. draft)
/42 Margaret Kerton to WBF, nd – refers to his letter [not held]; heard from the CS Commissioner that she had not qualified for the Administrative grade; on a job she applied for at the Royal Museum, Edinburgh; thanks him; hopes his trip is enjoyable (autogr.)
/1/43 Margaret […?], BOT, to ibid., nd – sorry to hear from Phyllis about his troubles with his London house; he has her sympathy; mentions bombs (autogr.)
/44 Ibid., ibid. – on his Christmas card; called in to see him but was told he would be away for 10 days; hopes he has a good leave (autogr.)
/45 Ibid., ibid. – thanks him for a pleasant evening; reminds him to bring in his magazine written at 12 years of age (autogr.)
/46 Laura [Shuter] to ibid.[?], nd – Christmas card (printed)
/47 Laura & Peter Shuter to ibid., ibid. – Christmas card (printed)
/48 Laura [Shuter] to ibid., nd – thanks him for the record; refers to her birthday (autogr.)
/49 Daily Mail, 29 Dec. 194? – ‘[…?] Iddon’s Diary’ (newspaper cutting)
/50 WBF, nd – notebook with various notes (autogr.)
/51 Ibid., card headed ‘Manker’ (autogr.)
/52 Ibid., nd – card with notes on three objects (autogr.)
/53 Aerial photograph of Oakmere, 28 Aug. 1945 (printed with autogr. note)
/54 Curriculum Vitae of Philip Odinma Nsugbe, applying for post of Ethnographer. 2 leaves (tp.)
/55 RAI – notice about a reception to celebrate the Centenary on 12 July [1972] (tp.)
/56 WBF, review of ‘Proceedings of the First Pan-African Congress on Prehistory, 1947’, ed. L.S.B. Leakey; article from Man (printed)
/57 Sample of ‘core’ from No 16 behind Headdress (‘dust’ in an envelope)
/58 Fragment detached from behind bridge of nose of Benin bronze head, male, semi-naturalistic, no. 97.12-17.3 (metal fragment in an envelope)
/59 Information card about a bronze head of a snake (tp.)
/1/60 Part of a letter on counteracting the impact of European aesthetic concepts on tribal artists, with response by WBF (tp. and autogr.)
/61 List of places and tribes, headed ‘Geographical Index: Africa’. 4 leaves (tp. with autogr. corrections)
/62 List of artefacts headed ‘Apparently Unnumbered Specimens’, leaf 1 missing (tp.)
/63 List of artefacts headed ‘Laman Collection’. 3 leaves (tp.)
/64 WBF, lists of artefacts with catalogue numbers[?] and notes. 6 leaves (autogr., on paper from the Hotel Plaza, Stockholm)
/65 Note on Rev. J. Wilhelm Walldén (tp.)
/66 Text headed ‘Qui Etait Jacques Viot’ (tp., in French)
/67 WBF to MWP, nd – texts of three telegrams. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/68 Ibid., notes for ‘The Ritual Stools of Ancient Ife’, Man 1960, no. 155. 4 leaves (autogr.)
/69 Harold J. Gowers to WBF, nd – on not being able to visit; sends best wishes (autogr.)
/70 Maps of Africa. 3 leaves (printed)
/71 Extract from ‘Svensk Missionsatlas’, 1957 (printed)
/72 Diagram from a publication of the Etnografiska Museet, Stockholm (printed)
/73 Enlargements of sections of the diagram in /1/72. 5 leaves (photocopy)
/74 WBF, nd – index cards with brief notes on both sides. 20 leaves (cards)
/75 Leather wallet containing as follows:
.1 Business card for Josef Herman (printed with autogr. notes on verso)
.2 Membership card for WBF for the British Museum Society, year ending 31 Mar. 1971 (printed and autogr.)
/1/75.3 Membership card for WBF for the ICA, valid to 30 June 1971 (printed and tp.)
.4 Membership card for WBF for the Museums Association, valid to 1 Apr. 1972 (printed, tp. and autogr.)
.5 Membership card for WBF for the National Art-Collections Fund, 1971 (printed and tp.)
.6 Membership card for WBF for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1970-71 (printed and autogr.)
.7 Ibid., 1971-72 (printed)
.8 Stamp book (empty) (printed)
.9 Chronique des Arts, July-Aug. 1972 – review of ‘The Living Arts of Nigeria’ by WBF (printed cutting, in French)
.10 Receipt for a bracelet (autogr. and printed, in French)
.11 Note of the name and address of Mamadou Baba Keita (autogr. note)
.12 Sundry receipts. 3 leaves (tp. and autogr.)
.13 Tear-off notes
.14 Business card for Bon & Bonne Arnault de Pierrebourg (printed with autogr. notes)
.15 Ibid. for Mireille de Pierrebourg (printed with autogr. note)
/76 Hermione [Waterfield] to WBF, 24 Feb. [?year] – thanks him for a delicious dinner; is sorry she was exhausted and left early; on her walk home; thanks him for such good things (autogr.)
/77 Announcement of the marriage of Albert Maesen and Cécile De Loof (printed, in Dutch)
/78 Anne Macrae to ibid., 5 Nov. [?year] – is pleased that he will lunch at the Royal College of Defence Studies when John returns from his NATO trip; is off to Senegal[?]; John will contact him to find a convenient date (autogr.)
/79 Erma[?] to [WBF?], nd – Christmas card
/1/80 Marion & Ken [Fagg] to WBF & [Lilian], nd – on a letter from a Ruth Fagg in Geelong, Australia; had a visit from her husband Bert and his cousin Ray Fagg; there are at least 100 Faggs around Melbourne; one of their sons may come to England; gave them WBF’s address; on their health (autogr. Christmas card)
/81 Gretchen G[reene] to WBF, nd – is sad that she did not see him at her Richard III party; is just an ordinary being who loves England; mentions a Bryn Mawr graduate who would like to see the museum; asks him to do something about it (autogr.)
/82 Peter […?] to [WBF?], nd – is going to Simon Fraser, Vancouver, to be Assoc. Prof. of African history (autogr. Christmas card)
/83 Amanda […?] to WBF, nd – on his article in the Sunday Times [possibly MS 501/12/20]; it is a pity that the building designed by Nervi never materialized; sorry she took so long in getting its whereabouts to him; enjoyed the evening at the BM; on an Indian restaurant (autogr.)
/84 Mr & Mrs James Douglas to WBF, nd – invitation to supper on 8 Feb. [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/85 Address of Meneghini & Mangio (tp. note)
/86 WBF’s London Transport photocard
/87 Mr & Mrs John R. Lindgren to WBF, nd – invitation to a ‘Keeping-in-touch Sundowner’ on 17 Apr. [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/88 Bamber Gascoigne to WBF, 9 Jan. [?year] – refers to WBF’s letter [not held]; enjoyed his analogy of Epstein and Coventry; it was their mistake (autogr. card)
/89 Address of Dr Jaroslav Orel (tp. note)
/90 Business card for Mr & Mrs Robert Owen Lehman (printed with autogr. message to WBF[?])
/91 Business card for A.[?]C.K. Bruckmann (printed; damaged)
/92 Ibid. for G.A. Cohnheim (printed with autogr. addition)
/93 Ibid. for Squadron-Leader H.J. Cozens (printed with autogr. addition on verso)
/94 Ibid. for Kenneth Hardaker (printed)
/1/95 Ibid. for Miss Barbara Howard (printed)
/96 Ibid. for Peter F. Eckstein (printed with autogr. addition on verso)
/97 Ibid. for G. Ellis Burcaw (printed)
/98 Gordon & Celia Barclay to WBF, invitation for tea/sherry on 12 Jan. [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/99 WBF, nd – note headed ‘Paul Elek’ (autogr.)
/100 Society for Freedom in Science, nd – notice about spare copies of Occasional Pamphlet No. 19 (printed)
/101 Elizabeth Wood to WBF, nd – asks if he can deal with ‘these’; asks him for instructions; hopes he had a good journey (tp. note)
/102 Audrey Chancellor to ibid., nd – thinks of him often; reminisces about their trip to the grasslands; does not get in to see MWP as often as she would like; on the Museum (autogr. Christmas card)
/103 […?] to ibid., nd – sends best wishes (autogr. pc)
/104 Celia Barclay to ibid.[?], nd – all the best (autogr. card [phot. 115764]
/105 Fitz to ibid., nd – refers to WBF’s letter [not held]; refers to EJL’s suggestion; asks him to insert acknowledgements to Mrs Griggin and himself; on extra copies; had been meaning to come to some RAI meetings but has been prevented by hospital doctors; will be in hospital for months; hopes to be back at work by Oct. 4 pages (autogr.)
/106 Norton [Medlicott] to ibid., 26 Feb. [?year] – refers to WBF’s letter [not held]; on his health; Dorothy was sorry to miss him; understands about Bedford Square; could not have raised the matter with the Hist. Ass. without some figure to go on; asks him to give Utley his congratulations; on Coates (autogr.)
/107 Programme for ‘The Teahouse of the August Moon’ at Her Majesty’s Theatre (printed)
/108 Programme for the Henry Wood Promenade Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, 27 July 1964 (printed)
/109 Programme for ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ by Wole Soyinka, at the Royal Court Theatre (printed)
/1/110 Programme for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin (printed, in German)
/111 Programme for ‘Hello, Dolly!’ at St James Theatre (printed)
/112 Programme for ‘Boris Godunov’ at the Royal Opera House on 7 Jan. 1966 (printed)
/113 Programme for ‘A Month in the Country’ by Ivan Turgenev, at the Cambridge Theatre (printed)
/114 Playbill programme for Sardou’s ‘Let’s Get a Divorce!’ (printed)
/115 Programme for ‘Les Indes Galantes’ at the Théatre National de l’Opéra’ (printed, in French, English and German)
/116 Playbill programme for ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ at Wyndham’s Theatre (printed)
/117 Playbill programme for ‘Days in the Trees’ at the Aldwych Theatre (printed)
/118 Application form for the Circumnavigtors Club (printed)
/119 Programme for Chelsea Show, 1952
/120 Brochure – ‘The telephone in business – open door…or obstacle?’ (printed)
/121 Sunday Times, 21 Jan. 1973 – letter from Kenneth R. Hill, ‘Return the Benin relics’ (newspaper cutting)
/122 Sunday Times, 4 Feb. 1973 – letter from R.J. Moxon, ‘Spoils of the Ashanti wars’ (newspaper cutting)
/123 ‘New Keeper of Ethnography at Museum’, refers to Malcolm McLeod succeeding WBF (newspaper cutting)
/124 Evening Standard, 6 Mar. 1975 – ‘Doris Hare granted a decree’ (newspaper cutting)
/125 Daily Mail, 7 Mar. 1975 – ‘Sad end of a fun marriage’ (newspaper cutting)
/126 Evening Standard, 10 June 1975 – ‘A century of woe’ (newspaper cutting)
/127 WBF, nd – note of the name and address of Joan Wescott (autogr.)
/1/128 Margret [Bennet-Clark/Carey] to [WBF?], nd – Christmas card
/129 List of people in India, headed ‘To meet’ (tp.)
/130 Membership card for WBF for the British Museum Society, year ending 31 Mar. 1975 (printed and autogr. card)
/131 Postal order for 35p for Mrs Lilian Fagg
/132 Note with the names and addresses of Francis Nkwain and Owona Essoro (autogr.)
/133 Business card for R.M. Peet (printed)
/134 Ibid. for Robert Becker (printed)
/135 Ibid. for Dr Edith Varga-Biro (printed)
/136 Ibid. for Peter Adler (printed)
/137 Ibid. for Joseph Murumbi (printed)
/138 Ibid. for Mr D.C. Damant (printed)
/139 Ibid. for Alan R. Mann (printed)
/140 Ibid. for Dr Delfino Dinz Rialto (printed)
/141 Ibid. for Mrs Joan Ashken (printed)
/142 Ibid. for Imre Patkó (printed)
/143 Ibid. for Csaba A. Ecsedy (printed)
/144 Ibid. for Istvan Rudnyanszky (printed with autogr. note)
/145 Ibid. for Dir. Dr Alán Kralovánszky (printed)
/146 Ibid. for Dr Babatunde Lawal (printed)
/147 Ibid. for Fuller Peiser (printed paper)
/148 Ibid. for W.K. Armstrong (printed)
/149 Ibid. for Prof. Dr Elsy Leuzinger (printed with autogr. note to WBF)
/150 Ibid. for L.P. Vidyarthi (printed)
/151 Ibid. for Arnold H. Maremont (printed)
/152 Ibid. for Lance Entwistle (printed)
/1/153 Ibid. for Alan Loring Mond (printed with autogr. note)
/154 WBF, nd – list of dates and venues relating to his trip to Hungary [18-31 Mar. 1973]
/155 Ibid., ibid. – note of the telephone numbers of Mrs Leaker and T. Harrisson (autogr.)
/156 Note of the name and address of László Scholz (autogr.)
/157 WBF, nd – names of people with honours (autogr. note)
/158 Bill from Allami Konyvteneszto (printed and autogr.)
/159 3 Mar. 1976 – membership card for WBF for the Anglo-Cameroon Society (printed and tp.)
/160 Note headed ‘Pateneau’ (autogr.)
/161 Note of the phone number of T.S. Jones (autogr.)
/162 Note of the address of Brigitte Menzel (autogr.)
/163 Bill from the Gay Lord Restaurant, Mayfair, 24 Apr. 1978 (printed and autogr.)
/164 Appointment card for WBF for physiotherapy (printed and autogr.)
/165 Hermione [Waterfield] to WBF, nd – birthday card
/166 Ibid., ibid. – ibid.
/167 Ibid., ibid. – ibid.
/168 Herald, 16 June 1967 – mentions WBF’s CMG (newspaper page)
/169 Daily Telegraph, 10 June 1967 – mentions WBF’s CMG (newspaper page)
/170 The Times, 10 June 1967 – mentions WBF’s CMG (newspaper page)
/171 Itinerary of MWP’s visit to Salisbury (tpc.)
/172 Jeffrey S. Hammer, nd – notes (autogr.)
/173 Evening Standard, 27 Mar. 1984 – ‘A “priest hole” discovered at the Travellers’ (newspaper cutting)
/1/174 Hermione [Waterfield] to WBF, nd – thanks him for the pre-Christmas luncheon; has had a lot of work; is going to Scotland; invites him to lunch (autogr.)
/175 Business card for Docteur P. Rivet (printed with autogr. note, in French)
/176 WBF, nd – lists of people to whom he sent Christmas cards, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950. 5 leaves (autogr.) [see /2/289-/2/292]
/177 Ibid., ibid. – list of people (autogr.)
/178 Business card for Michel Leiris (printed with autogr. note, in French)
/179 Ibid. for Charles Ratton (printed with autogr. note, in French)
/180 Note regarding telephoning Dumas (autogr.)
/181 Note of telephone numbers of Lane Berk (autogr.)
/182 Note of name and address of Robert Brandstetter (autogr.)
/183 Note of name and address of Dr Heiner Oettli (autogr.)
/184 Business card for Maria de Lourdes Teixeira da Mota (printed with autogr. notes)
/185 Note stating that WBF would like to see Maria de Lourdes Teixeira da Mota (tp. with autogr. additions by Hermione Waterfield)
/186 Note of the name and address of Frank McEwen (autogr.)
/187 Note of name of W.R. McGeagh (autogr.)
/188 Note of name and address of Fred Berthold (autogr.)
/189 Business card of Jeffrey S. Hammer (printed with autogr. note on verso)
/190 Ibid. of Roger F. Azar (printed)
/191 Ibid. of Bernd Muhlack (printed)
/192 Note of an article by P. de Moret[?] (autogr.)
/193 Investment Management Agreement between WBF and National Westminster Bank, 21 July 1982 (printed and tp.)
/1/194 St Stephen’s Hospital, London, 5 Mar. 1977 – discharge prescription form for WBF (printed and autogr.)
/195 Itinerary for WBF and Hermione Waterfield’s visit to Zürich, 20-21 Aug. 1981. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/196 Barnes Comments, July 1979 (printed booklet)
/197 Commercial Union Assurance, nd – slip regarding 1978 Bonus distribution (printed and tp.)
/198 James Scrimgeour, Aug. 1974 – ‘Factors threatening our society’ (printed leaflet)
/199 The Belgian Institute, invitation to a lecture on 11 May 1949 by Mr Frans Olbrechts (printed card with autogr. and tp. additions)
/200 Henri A. Kamer, nd – invitation to the opening of his new gallery (printed)
/201 Images of rock engravings. 8 leaves (printed on card, with text in Turkish and English)
/202 WBF, 1 Apr. 1954 – notes on a Benin snake head and a bronze vase. 2 leaves (autogr.)
.1 Adrian Digby to WBF, nd – asks him to keep the enclosed [/1/202] (autogr. note)
/203 Extract from Minutes of a Meeting of the Archaeologial and Historical Advisory Committee for Colonial Territories held on 24 July 1961 (tp.)
/204 WBF, nd – note on an Egyptian axe; [on verso:] sketch map (autogr.)
/205 University of Edinburgh, nd – Programme for the Opening of ‘African Art as a Cultural Tradition’ on 23 Feb. 1962 (tp.)
/206 Daily Mail, 17 July 1953 – ‘Home and away’ (newspaper cutting)
/207 13 June 1964 – note of an exchange of items between the BM and Mr Allen Davis (tp.)
.1 Adrian Digby to WBF, nd – note regarding entering the exchange into D book (autogr.)
/208 ‘Samples for Radio Carbon Analysis from Ife, Nigeria’. 2 leaves (tpc.)
/1/209 Description by Robert Goldwater of the Nelson Rockefeller collection (printed page from a magazine or newspaper)
/210 Rough and miscellaneous notes by WBF and others. 6 leaves (autogr.)
/211 [H.J. Braunholtz], Nov. 1949 – list of artefacts (autogr.)
/212 Museum labels. 15 leaves (autogr. and tp. card)
/213 Leonhard Adam, ‘Arts of Primitive Peoples’, ‘Africa: Negro Parts 3-9’, pp. 1 & 229-376. 149 leaves (tp. with autogr. notes by WBF on leaf 1)
/214 Illustrations of various artefacts, with brief descriptions. 3 leaves (photocopy)
/215 ‘Information for Captions’ (photocopy)
/216 List of dates and addresses for WBF in Uganda, Tanganyika and Rhodesia (tp. with autogr. notes referring to Muriel Bryant and Churchill Bryant)
/217 WBF, list of reference numbers with tribes (autogr.)
/218 Aug. 1964 – brief notes on various artefacts (photocopy)
/219 Notes on Shango, Yoruba Regalia, Osamasinmi, Osanyin, Obatala, Orisha Oko and Oshun. 6 leaves (tp. with autogr. corrections)
.1 Note referring to /1/219 (autogr.)
/220 Cover of exhibition catalogue, ‘The Art of Black Africa’, organized by the Flint Institute of Arts (photocopy)
/221 Illustration of an Owo bronze ring, with description (photocopy with autogr. note from Robert Loder to WBF)
/222 Illustration of a figure (photocopy with autogr. note on verso: ‘assoc. with 1990-1991 correspondence’)
/223 Pages from a Sotheby’s catalogue of a sale of Important Tribal Art, 17 June 1991. 8 leaves (photocopy)
/224 Flyer from exhibition ‘For Spirits and Kings African Art’ from the Paul and Ruth Tishman collection, 3 June-6 Sept. 1981 (printed)
/225 Three cards relating to ‘diapositives de la collection du Musée de l’Homme’, ‘Afrique Noire’, series 1-3. 3 leaves (printed cards, in French)
/1/226 WBF[?], nd – notes on a fine standing bronze figure (tp. with autogr. corrections)
/227 WBF, ibid. – notes concerning a Yoruba ivory female figure (autogr. draft) [see MS 501/9/64 for finished text]
/228 Gene E. Willett, nd – notes on a Basonge face mask and a Chokwe Bajokwe face mask (photocopy)
/229 [Jeff & Deborah] Hammer to Tim [Teuten?], nd – enclose a Xerox of a Shango staff; ask him to tell WBF that they have received the 8 X 10s from him; will begin labelling shortly; on having a dedication ceremony at the time of the donation by Tishman (photocopy)
/230 John Povey, ‘Regional Preferences in African Art’; WBF, ‘Sibylline Books and Other Problems in the Ife-Benin Studies’ [see MS 501/20/65]; Aldo Tagliaferri, ‘Le arti africane tra storia e innovazione’; Prof. J. Cornet, ‘La recherche au Zaire’; Prof. Romain Rainero, ‘Eurocentrismo e denigrazione dell’arte Africana nell’Italia fascista’. 5 leaves (photocopy, in English, Italian and French)
/231 WBF, nd – list of sources of negatives and transparencies in Rhodesia (autogr.)
/232 Ibid.[?], nd – notes on the Opin clan (tp.)
/233 Illustration of an Epa festival mask (photocopy)
/234 WBF[?], nd – notes on a superb Owo ivory cup and cover (tp. with autogr. corrections)
/235 Ezio Bassani to Colleague, nd – encloses proofs of paper for the proceedings of the meeting ‘Reality and Perspectives of the Studies on the History of African Arts’ (tp.)
/236 ‘Gli Olifanti Afroportoghesi della Sierra Leone’, in Critica d’Arte. 27 leaves (photocopy, in Italian)
/237 WBF, nd – index of tribes with map and page references. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/238 Ibid., ‘On a Benin Bronze Plaque representing a Girl’. 3 leaves (autogr.) [see Man, July 1958, No. 154]
.1 Illustrations. 2 leaves (printed)
/239 Notes on the removal from Hawaii of curiosities and relics; on the Hooper figure; on Byron. 2 leaves (tp.)
/1/240 WBF, nd – list of artefacts (autogr.)
/241 Illustration of a stool (photocopy)
/242 Illustration of a stool with a brief description (photocopy, in French)
/243 WBF, nd – notes concerning a Bena Lulua female figure. 2 leaves (tp.)
/244 Ibid., ibid. – draft [not identical]. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/245 Ibid.[?], ibid. – notes on an ivory double armlet, probably from Owo (tp.)
/246 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a Yoruba housepost, warrior on horseback, from Idanre (tp.)
/247 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a Yoruba terracotta figure of an Ogboni chief (tp.)
/248 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a bowl with relief ornament by Olowe of Isle (tp.)
/249 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a Sherbro-Portuguese salt (tp.)
/250 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a Sherbro or Temne soapstone head (tp.)
/251 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a bearded mask with animal horns, probably from the Tumba (tp.)
/252 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a bowl with figures by Olowe of Ise, a figure of a woman carrying a child by the Master of Ikare, and an Epa mask representing a priest by Oshamuko of Oni. 2 leaves (tpc.)
/253 MWP, nd – list of artefacts with prices in Swiss francs; [on verso:] name and address of E. Storrer (autogr. slip)
/254 List of items for an exhibition in Sept. [?year]. 4 leaves (autogr.)
/255 WBF, nd – rough notes on ivory sceptre (autogr.)
/256 Postcard of a terracotta head (with autogr. note ‘supposed to be sculpted by [female] potter’)
/257 MWP, nd – list of artefacts with prices[?]
/258 WBF, nd – note mentioning Sir Ernest Gowers (autogr.)
/1/259 Ibid., ibid. – note headed ‘Newman pieces’ (autogr.)
/260 Text and illustrations on Koré hyena masks. 2 leaves (photocopy)
[No number 261]
/262 Title page and another page from Cahiers d’Art. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/263 WBF, nd – list of tribes[?} with reference numbers (autogr.)
/264 Ibid., ibid. – rough notes headed ‘Baluba Hemba’ (autogr.)
/265 Notes on prints (autogr.)
/266 Rough drawing of an ivory hanging vessel (autogr.)
/267 WBF, nd – list of artefacts with prices; [on verso:] name and address of Marcel Benenson (autogr.)
/268 Drawing of a housepost with scant information (autogr.)
/269 WBF, nd – list of artefacts. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/270 Certificate of pay and tax deducted for WBF, Income Tax Year 1948-49 (printed and autogr.)
/271 Envelope with notes concerning a figure of a mother and child (autogr.)
/272 P. Timmermans, text on ‘Les Lwalwa’. 16 pages (printed, in French)
/273 Flyer for an exhibition ‘Der Stuhl in der afrikanischen Kunst’ (printed card, in German)
/274 Invitation to consign to the Fall auction of Ethnographic Art, at the Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer München (printed leaflet, in English and German)
/275 Illustration of an ivory chalice, with text in Latin (photocopy)
/276 WBF, nd – list of tribes[?] (autogr.)
/277 Note on an unidentified sculpture (tp.)
/278 Text and illustration of a cross bearer from Benin (photocopy)
/1/279 Text on the Yoruba (photocopy)
/280 Change of address card for Louis de Strycker (printed)
/281 Business card of Irene and Helmut Gernsheim (printed)
/282 Part of Chapter 6, ‘A Conjectural Digression among the Bronze-Casters’. 3 leaves (photocopy with autogr. additions) [see MS 501/24/22]
/283 Page from ‘The Buda Castle’ (photocopy with autogr. notes)
/284 WBF, nd – list of references (autogr.)
/285 Ibid., ibid. – ‘Afro-Portuguese Ivories’, text, notes and diagrams. 7 leaves (autogr.)
/286 Pages from the catalogue of the Copenhagen Museum, on ivory artefacts. 2 leaves (photocopy, in Danish and English)
/287 K.P. Wachsmann, ‘A Drum from Seventeenth Century Africa’. 4 leaves (photocopy)
/288 WBF, nd – ‘The Carvers of the Afro-Portuguese Ivories’. 4 leaves (autogr.)
/289 Illustrations of ivory artefacts. 5 leaves (photocopy)
/290 WBF, nd – list of tribes and places, with artefacts. 5 leaves (autogr.)
/291 Ibid.[?], list of artefacts. 3 leaves (tp. with autogr. notes as to provenance)
/292 Notes headed ‘Ibeji figs Gallery’ (autogr.)
/293 Notes relating to storage of African items in the BM[?] 6 leaves (tp.)
/294 WBF, nd – list of artefacts. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/295 Ibid., ibid. – ibid. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/296 Lists of artefacts from the Oldman Collection, arranged according to their provenance. 15 leaves (tp. and autogr.)
/297 List of items stored in Room 104. 6 leaves (autogr.)
/298 Ibid. stored in Room 108. 2 leaves (autogr)
/1/299 Ibid. stored in Basement, Room 104. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/300 List of Oldman specimens in Gallery (autogr. note)
/301 WBF, nd – two lists of artefacts; text on a dance mask. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/302 Ibid. – list of items from the collection of E. Anspach (tp.)
/303 D. Randall-MacIver, ‘On a Rare Fabric of Kabyle Pottery’. 5 leaves (photocopy)
/304 JLM, ‘Notes on the History of the Kabyle Pottery’. 15 leaves (photocopy)
/305 A. van Gennep, ‘On R. MacIver’s and J.L. Myres’ “Toudja Series” of Kabyle Pottery’, Man, 1912, No. 63. 3 leaves (photocopy, in French)
/306 List of possible writers on field notes, and possible order of subjects. 2 leaves (tp.)
/306a WBF, notes on slips of paper, most notes of an artefact, some notes of a map, or a person. 262 leaves (autogr.)
/306b A.H. Lawrence, nd – note concerning negatives (autogr. on an envelope)
/306c WBF, nd – a note on a pair of wax figures from the Fulani (photocopy)
/306d WBF, nd – list of places and people with numbers (autogr.)
/306e 28 Aug. 1950 – ‘Avis d’Expédition’ relating to an ethnographic collection (printed and autogr., in French)
/306f WBF, nd – list of artefacts (autogr. note)
/306g Ibid., ibid. – lists of items bought, negotiated and presented (autogr.)
/307 Notes on artefacts headed ‘Iyasin Ikale’ (photocopy)
/308 Notes headed ‘Ijuodo’ (photocopy with diagrams)
/309 Notes headed ‘Ikale’ (photocopy with autogr. note dated 1959 by WBF)
/310 Notes headed ‘Oshoro’ (photocopy, almost illegible)
/1/311 Various notes (photocopy)
/312 Drawing of Igbile
/313 Notes headed ‘Ikale. Okitiphea’, on the Igbile festival (photocopy)
/314 Notes headed ‘Ikale Okitipupa’, on the Ere festival. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/315 Notes headed ‘Idepe. Okitipupa’ (photocopy)
/316 Drawings headed ‘Ikale Okitipupa’
/317 Notes headed ‘Ifa Equipment’ (photocopy)
/318 Notes headed ‘Ijebu Ife’, 15 Jan. 1959 (tp.)
/319 Notes headed ‘Yoruba Ceremonies Ijebu’ (tp.)
/320 Notes headed ‘Ijebu-Ode Guides’ (tp.)
/321 Notes headed ‘Yoruba Religion & Customs Ijebu’ (tp.)
/322 Notes headed ‘Ijebu Igbo Antiquities Ijebu’ (tp.)
/323 Notes headed ‘Ijebu-Ife Antiquities Ijebu’. 2 leaves (tp.)
/324 Notes headed ‘Idoma Antiquities Ijebu’ (tp.)
/325 Notes headed ‘Ijebu Ode Antiquities’. 4 leaves (tp.)
/326 Notes headed ‘Olojo Festival’ (photocopy)
/327 Notes headed ‘Ado Ekiti’ (photocopy, almost illegible)
/328 Notes headed ‘Antiquities’ (photocopy)
/329 Notes headed ‘Antiquities at Owo’. 5 pages (tp.)
/330 Notes headed ‘Abigi Ijebu’. 6 leaves (tp.)
/331 Notes headed ‘Makun Ijebu Province’. 7 leaves (tp.)
/332 Notes headed ‘Ijebu Province’. 2 leaves (tp.)
/333 Notes headed ‘Metal Work’ [leaf 1 missing] (tp.)
/334 Notes headed ‘Ijebu Province’. 3 leaves (tp.)
/1/335 Olatunji Oyinloye, manuscript of a booklet entitled ‘Esie Stone Images’; includes note to the Assistant Surveyor of Antiquities, Jos, 14 May 1953. 12 leaves (tp.)
/336 Notes headed ‘Ikerre Antiquities Ekiti’. 2 leaves (tp.)
/337 Notes headed ‘Ijero Antiquities Ekiti’. 4 pages (tp.)
/338 Notes headed ‘Iloro (near Ijero) Antiquities Ekiti’ (tp.)
/339 Notes headed ‘Ara Moko Antiquities Ekiti’ (tp.)
/340 Notes headed ‘Arigidi Antiquities Ekiti’ (tp.)
/341 Notes headed ‘Uyin Village, Ado District Antiquities Ekiti’ (tp.)
/342 Notes headed ‘Erijiyan Antiquities Ekiti’ (tp.)
/343 Notes headed ‘Oye Guides Ekiti’ (tp.)
/344 Notes headed ‘Oye Carver Ekiti’ (tp.)
/345 Notes head ‘Ikole Carver Ekiti’ (tp.)
/346 Notes headed ‘Yoruba Ceremonies Ekiti’ (tp.)
/347 Notes headed ‘Yoruba Ceremonies & Plays Ekiti’ (tp.)
/348 Notes headed ‘Yoruba Religion & Customs Ekiti’. 3 leaves (tp.)
/349 Notes headed ‘Oro’ (tp.)
/350 Notes headed ‘Ife’, dated Mar. 1952 (tp.)
/351 Rough drawings
/352 Notes on Ise Doors (autogr.)
/353 Information about Dassa Zoume, an Exhibition of Photographs at University College Library, University College, Ibadan. 7 pages (tp.)
/354 ‘Bini Confederation, Okitipupa Division. (Extracts from Intelligence Report by R.J.M. Curwen. 1937)’. 14 leaves (tp.)
/355 Applications to export Antiquities. 12 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/356 WBF, nd – list of artefacts (autogr.)
/1/357 Ibid., ibid. – rough notes (autogr.)
/358 Notes on flight plans for Michael Crowder and/or Babatunde Lawal (autogr)
/359 WBF, nd – brief notes. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/360 Diagrams showing arrangement of pieces in a gallery[?] 2 leaves (autogr.)
/361 Diagram relating to the Zwemmer Gallery (autogr.)
/362 Business card for Mr Frank G. Tompson (printed with autogr. note on verso)
/363 Eleven cheque book stubs, 1937-1950
/364 Cheques issued by WBF, Westminster Bank, Norwood. 136 leaves (printed)
/365 Westminster Bank debit slips for WBF. 68 leaves
/366 Biographical information about WBF (printed)
/367 Certificates of posting a packet. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/368 Flyer advertising the ‘Golden Arrow’ Pullman service from London to Paris (printed)
/369 Flyer for a Swedish Christmas Fair on 7 Dec. 1946 (printed)
/370 Westminster Foreign Bank Ltd., Paris, 17 Dec. 1946 – slip relating to a cheque (printed and autogr., in French)
/371 Receipt from Harrods to WBF, 13 Feb. 1946 (printed and tp. card)
.1 Harrods compliments slip (printed)
/372 Amtrak timetable of services between Philadelphia and New York (printed card)
/373 Amtrak tickets. 2 leaves (printed)
/374 Membership card for National Art Collections Fund, expiry Dec. 1978 (printed card)
/375 University of London, Institute of Education, compliments slip relating to a lecture fee (printed and tp.)
/1/376 Westminster Bank Limited, 2 Sept. 1955 – credit slip (printed and autogr.)
/377 Westminster Bank Limited, Foreign Branch Office, 16 Sept. 1955 – ‘Statement of Bill Negotiated’ (printed and tp.)
/378 Cheque stub
/379 WBF, nd – note of the name and address of E.J. Shuter (autogr.)
/380 8 July 1943 – receipts from the Falcon Hotel, High Wycombe. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/381 Receipt from the Fleece Hotel, Gloucester (printed and autogr.)
/382 20 July 1944 – notice of the engagement of Mr C. Mitchell and Miss J. Flower (newspaper cutting)
/383 nd – article referring to the death of David Maxwell Williamson Napier, who was a rowing Blue at Cambridge (newspaper cutting)
/384 Great Western Railway, 28 Dec. 1945 – memorandum referring to permission to travel in the brake van of a freight train (printed and tp.)
/385 WBF, various dates – notes on household expenses[?] 3 leaves (autogr.)
/386 Post Office Savings Bank book for WBF, earliest date 27 Feb. 1922
/387 Sotheby & Co. to WBF, 1 Nov. 1957 – receipt for antiquities (printed and autogr.)
/2 Fieldwork material and miscellaneous items
/1 Notebook, inscribed on first page ‘Nigeria, 15/11/49’
/2 Ibid., inscribed on cover ‘Nigeria 23/12/49-23/1/50 16/2/50-20/2/50’
/3 Ibid. with no inscription; some entries dated 1959
/4 Ibid. inscribed on cover ‘Congo 24/1/50-15/2/50 Nigeria 15/2/50-[…?] 24/2/50- 10/3/50’
/5 Ibid. with no inscription; some entries dated 1966
/2/6 Leather-bound appointment book, inscribed on first page ‘Summary Journal WBF Expeditions: 1949-50 1958-59’
/7 Notebook with no inscription; entries relating to a trip to USA, Oct. & Nov. [1961]
/8 Ibid. with no inscription; entries relating to a trip in 1974 [to Hungary]
/9 Ibid., inscribed on first page ‘German Tour, March, 1961’
.1 Loose notes inserted in the notebook. 6 leaves (autogr.)
/10 Notebook with no inscription; entries dated 1981
/11 BOAC, route map from West Africa to Britain (printed)
/12 Flyer to introduce Corona (printed)
/13 Corona subscription form (printed)
/14 WBF, notes dated 13 Jan. 1950 (autogr.)
/15 Ibid., nd – notes on the importance of Nigerian art. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/15a ‘Nigeria’s Ancient Mastery in Art on Show’ (newspaper cutting)
/16 16 Dec. 1949 – Ben Enwonwu, ‘How to Enjoy Paintings’ (newspaper cutting)
/17 ‘H.E. opens international conference at Ibadan’ (newspaper cutting)
/18 ‘Land-Hungry Peasants leave the Plateau’ (newspaper cutting)
/19 ‘East African Post for Anthropologist’, ‘Archdeacon’s Thesis a Worthy Addition to African Literature’ (newspaper cutting)
/20 ‘Chief Secretary Praises Artist’s Pioneer Work’ (newspaper cutting)
/21 BOAC, excess baggage ticket for WBF (printed and autogr.)
/22 West African Airways Corporation, excess baggage ticket, passenger coupon for WBF (printed and autogr.)
/23 Ibid., passenger ticket and baggage check for WBF (printed and autogr.)
/2/24 Ibid., ibid. (printed and autogr.)
/25 Ibid., ibid. (printed and autogr.)
/26 Ibid., ibid. (printed and autogr.)
/27 24 Jan & 17 Feb. 1950 – bills from Kano Airport Hotel for WBF. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/28 11 Jan. 1950 – bills from Kingsway Stores Ltd., Lagos. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/29 10 Jan. 1950 – tickets for water and fire wood at the Rest House, Ijebu-Ode. 4 leaves (printed)
/30 Exchange Control Card for WBF (printed and tp.)
/31 WBF, 22 Nov. 1948 – note mentioning Forsdyke’s letter to C. Webster Plass (autogr.)
/32 Ibid. to […?], 10 Nov. 1949 – on money presented to the BM by Mr Webster Plass, for ethnological research in Africa; refers to letter from the Director to Mr Webster Plass on 22 Nov. 1948 [not held]; on the conditions of the gift; asks that the money be now made available; is leaving for Africa on 14 Nov. (autogr. draft)
/33 Ibid., nd – note on travellers’ cheques (autogr.)
/34 Application form for special allotment of exchange for travelling expenses outside the Scheduled Territories, filled in by WBF (printed and autogr.)
/35 Bill for Rest House fees at Benin for WBF, 8 Dec. 1949 (printed and autogr.)
/36 Receipt for sending a telegram (printed and autogr.)
/37 Webster [Plass] to [WBF?], 7 Feb. 1950 – on transferring $150 (telegram, in French and English)
/38 WBF, nd – notes relating to travel (autogr.)
/39 Ibid. & others, nd – rough notes. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/40 Bill for Rest House fees at Makurdi for WBF, 9 Mar. 1950 (tp. and autogr.)
/41 Ibid. (printed and autogr.)
/42 Receipts for telegrams. 4 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/2/43 2 Mar. 1950 – receipt from West African Drug Company (printed and autogr.)
/44 6 Mar. 1950 – telegram concerning a cancelled air ticket
/45 […?], ‘Report on the Preservation of Antiquities and on the Establishment of Museums in British West Africa’. 24 pages (tp.)
/46 [K.C. Murray], nd – notes on various artefacts. 6 pages (autogr.)
/47 Shand to WBF, 4 Feb. 1950 – magazine of art offers to buy Ife article; on BEBF’s permission concerning the photograph (telegram)
/48 Webster [Plass] to ibid., 22 Jan. 1950 – on WBF obtaining leave extension; asks him to cable if additional foreign exchange is required (telegram)
/49 19 Feb. 1950 – telegram concerning a reservation for accommodation for WBF at Omu-aran
/50 21 Feb. 1950 – telegram concerning Rest House accommodation
/51 Kalmaera to WBF, 23 Feb. 1950 – on his air passage (telegram)
/52 19 Feb. 1950 – telegram concerning accommodation at Illa for WBF
/53 Ibid. – telegram concerning accommodation at Awtun for WBF
/54 28[?] Feb. 1950 – telegram concerning message from Braunholtz on the subject of WBF’s return
/55 Dry to WBF, 17 Feb. 1950 – is leaving today; on the specimens (telegram)
/56 WBF, nd – texts of three telegrams. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/57 Ibid., ibid. – rough notes. 4 leaves (autogr.)
/58 WBF, nd – notes on various types of substance (autogr.)
/59 Air France, map showing route from Paris to Lagos (printed, in French)
/60 Notes and drawings of artefacts (autogr.)
/61 WBF, nd – rough notes (autogr.)
/2/62 Receipt from the United Africa Company Ltd. (printed and autogr.)
/63 BOAC, Flight Embarkation Advice (tp. and autogr.)
/64 Ibid., information about the London/Accra service (tp.)
/65 KLM route guide (printed booklet)
/66 Leaflet about Paludrine, with revised dosage and note of WBF’s dose. 3 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/67 WBF, nd – rough notes. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/68 Telegram concerning a passage booked Kano/Jos on 15 [Nov.]
/69 WBF, nd – rough notes. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/70 Note of the address of the Belgian Embassy (autogr.)
/71 KLM timetable (printed booklet)
/72 WBF, nd – text of a telegram to Mary Tew, about his movements (autogr.)
/73 Mary Tew to WBF, 1 Feb. 1950 – on meeting him (telegram, in French and English)
/74 Information about a flight (printed and autogr.)
/75 […?] to Mr Kuvachier, nd – note about accommodation for WBF (autogr.)
/76 Business card for René van Deuren (printed)
/77 Documents from the Banque du Congo Belge [‘Bordereau d’Escompte’]. 3 leaves (printed and tp., in French)
/78 Bill for sundry items (autogr.)
/79 Receipt for a telegram (printed and autogr.)
/80 Bill for WBF from the Guest House Sabena. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/81 Bill for WBF from the Hotel Mweka (autogr.)
.1 Hotel Mweka, chits for meals etc. 8 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/82 Bill for WBF from the Bonne Auberge (autogr.)
/2/82.1 Bonne Auberge, chits for meals etc. 5 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/83 Bill for WBF from the Victory Hotel (printed and autogr.)
/84 Hotel laundry lists for WBF. 3 leaves (autogr., in French)
/85 Bill for WBF from Guest House Sabena. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
.1 Chits for meals. 10 leaves (autogr.)
/86 WBF, nd – notes on Talbot works. 3 leaves (autogr. cards)
/87 Ibid., ibid. – rough notes. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/88 Notes headed ‘Nduen Fobara or Ancestral images (Kalabari)’. 6 leaves (tp. and autogr.)
/89 Notes headed ‘Talbot Kalabari Chiefs’ (autogr.)
/90 Exercise book inscribed ‘Onitsha’
/91 WBF, list of places with numbers (autogr.)
/92 West African Airways Corporation, excess baggage ticket (printed)
/93 Instructions for fitting an aerial (printed)
/94 Card relating to renewal of Time (printed and autogr.)
/95 WBF, 4 Mar. 1959 – receipt given to Sule Oyeyemi for woodcarvings (autogr. note)
/96 Envelope for donation to Holy Cross Catholic Church (printed)
/97 Recipes using ‘Vencats’ Madras curry powder (printed)
/98 Bill for WBF from Hotel Lincoln, Paris (printed and autogr., in French)
/99 Receipt from Kingsway Shop, Ibadan (printed)
/100 Receipt from La Gentilhommière, [Paris] (printed and autogr., in French)
/101 Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, nd – invoice for Mr Onafawokan for electricity, Jan. 1959 (printed and autogr.)
/2/102 Ibid., nd – ibid. for WBF for electricity, Apr. 1959 (printed and autogr.)
/103 WBF to [Electricity Corporation of Nigeria], 20 Dec. 1958 – letter concerning electricity invoice for Mr Onafawokan (autogr.)
/104 Bank statements from the Bank of West Africa Limited for WBF, Oct., Nov., Dec. 1958, Jan., Apr. 1959. 5 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/105 Way Bill (printed and autogr.)
/106 Cover of a Bank of West Africa Limited cheque book (printed)
/107 Government of the Northern Region of Nigeria, receipts given to WBF for various items. 5 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/108 Receipts from Kingsway Stores Limited, Lagos. 16 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/109 Ticket showing weight [of WBF?] (printed)
/110 Receipt from G.B. Ollivant (Nigeria) Ltd. (printed and autogr.)
/111 Receipts from Union Trading Co. Ltd., Lagos. 4 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/112 Receipts from Union Trading Company Ltd., Motor Department. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/113 Receipts from Chellaram’s. 3 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/114 Bills for WBF and BEBF from a Rest House at Akure. 3 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/115 Revenue Collector’s Receipts. 9 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/116 Receipts from Harolds Ltd Nigeria. 4 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/117 Receipts from A.K. Han. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/118 Receipts from Kingsway, Ibadan. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/119 Receipts from Coop. 6 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/2/120 Invoices from Rest House, Akure. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/121 Receipts for telegrams sent. 3 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/122 Receipt for telegram[?] (printed and autogr., in Italian)
/123 Receipts for sums relating to parcels. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/124 Receipt from Kingsway, Accra (printed and autogr.)
/125 Invoice from Hotel de Kingsway (printed and autogr.)
/126 Receipts from Kingsway shop. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/127 Receipts from T. Kahale & Co. Ltd. 2 leaves (printed and autogr.)
/128 Invoice for WBF from Kaduna Catering Rest House (printed and autogr.)
/129 Invoice for WBF from Rest House, Akure[?] (printed and autogr.)
/130 Invoice for WBF from Catering Rest House, Ilorin (printed and autogr.)
/131 Receipt for dinner (autogr.)
/132 Transfer Issue Voucher (printed and autogr.)
/133 Receipt for four copies of ‘Sacred Wood Carving’ (printed and autogr.)
/134 Invoice for WBF from the Chrisbo Hotel, Benin (printed and autogr.)
/135 Receipt from Chrisbo Hotel, Benin (printed and autogr.)
/136 Receipt for Christmas cards (printed and autogr.)
/137 Senior Pottery Officer, Pottery Training Centre, Abuja, to WBF, 16 Feb. 1959 – reminder that he there is 11 shillings outstanding on his account (tp.)
/138 Store Issue Voucher relating to 11 shillings’ worth of beads (printed and autogr.)
/139 Invoice for WBF from a Catering Rest House (printed and autogr.)
/2/140 Receipt from Jimoh Ogun (printed and autogr.)
/141 Sales chits. 41 leaves (printed)
/142 A.D. Mackenzie, the United Africa Company Limited, to the Curator, Accounts Department, BM, 8 Aug. 1950 – encloses debit note for petrol issued to WBF at Luluabourg on 9 Feb.; asks for settlement (tp.)
/143 Debit note for petrol (tpc.) [enclosed with /2/142]
/144 Invoice for the petrol (printed and autogr.)
/145 A.D. Mackenzie to the Curator, Accounts Department, BM, 8 Sept. [1950] – refers to debit note [/2/143]; encloses copy; asks for remittance (tp.)
/146 B[entley] B[ridgewater] to WBF, 11 Aug. – on paying the bill (autogr. note)
/147 WBF, 6 July 1950 – account of travelling and incidental expenses in Nigeria, Dahomey and Belgian Congo, Nov. 1949-Mar. 1950 (printed and autogr.)
/148 Ibid., nd – notes on costs of air passages for the trip Nov. 1949-Mar. 1950 (autogr.)
/149 Ibid., ibid. – notes on costs of air passages and other expenses for the trip Nov. 1949-Mar. 1950. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/150 Note of a telephone message from Mr Stone about Dahomey (autogr.)
/151 WBF, nd – note relating to Dr Lorriman of the Medical Advisory Service (autogr.)
/152 Note of name of Prof. Augusto Gambarin of University of Roma (autogr.)
/153 Note relating to A.D. McIntosh, latterly New Zealand Ambassador to Rome (autogr.)
/154 Business card of Verne F. Ray (printed)
/155 Ibid. of Messaoud Maadad (printed)
/156 Ibid. of Abbia Gallery (printed)
/157 Ibid. of Abdallah Birouk (printed)
/158 Ibid. of Edmund van Gilder (printed)
/2/159 Ibid. of Mary Hunt Kahlenberg (printed)
[No number 160]
/161 Ibid. of Venetia J. Newall (printed)
[No number 162]
/163 Ibid. of Egon Guenther (printed)
/164 Ibid. of William Howard Adams (printed with autogr. notes)
/165 Ibid. of David Sanders (printed)
/166 Ibid. of PhDr. Jaroslav Orel (printed)
/167 Ibid. of Lawrence Gussman (printed with autogr. note)
/168 Ibid.of Dr Ferdinand Anders (printed)
/169 Ibid. for Maurice Joy (printed)
/170 Ibid. of Dr Murray B. Frum (printed)
/171 Ibid. of Jay C. Leff (printed with autogr. notes)
/172 Ibid. of Universal International Co. Ltd. (printed with autogr. notes)
/173 Ibid. of D. de Grunne (printed with autogr. notes on verso)
/174 Ibid. of Mr Bevis Hillier (printed with autogr. notes on verso)
/175 Ibid. of Ronald G. Attwood, International Communication Films (printed)
[No number 176]
/177 Ibid. of Adrian A. Gerbrands (printed with autogr. note)
/178 Ibid. of Aaron Furman (printed)
/179 Ibid. of Pinacotheca (printed)
/180 Ibid. of Petit Musée, Montreal (printed)
/181 19 Apr. 1969 – ‘Changes for the British Museum’, mentions WBF’s succession to the BM Ethnography Keepership (newspaper cutting)
/2/182 Note of the name of Ogobara Dolo (autogr.)
/183 Note of name and address of Mr Michael Cardew (autogr.)
/184 Note of a book ‘The Significance of European Headgear in Benin Art’ (tp. card)
/185 Review of a book on Confucius (newspaper cutting)
/186 Invoice from Papeterie Librairie Wega, Lugano (printed and autogr.)
/187 Card of the Hotel Studia, Paris (printed)
/188 Note of name and address of Pamela Zoline Wright (autogr.)
/189 Card of the Solréal Hôtel Restaurant, Bougie, Algeria (printed)
/190 Card of the permanent exhibition of ‘Arts Populaires Constantinois’ (printed, in French)
/191 Cutting about ‘The World About Us’ on the Dogon (newspaper cutting)
/192 List of theatres for which members of the ICA can buy tickets at Member’s rates (tp.)
/193 Note of the name and address of B[everley] Emery (autogr.)
/194 Note concerning an Ibo Ikenga (autogr.)
/195 Evening Standard, 10 May 1973[?] – ‘Hospital may go for 1860 price’ (newspaper cutting)
/196 Note of the name and address of Duponchell Christian (autogr.)
/197 WBF, nd – notes of various telephone numbers (autogr.)
/198 Madeleine van der Hecht to [WBF], nd – on misaddressing ‘this’ (autogr. note)
/199 Jehanne [Teilhet] to WBF, nd [post-1975] – Christmas card; on her work; on the birth of her daughter; on his kindness to her (autogr.)
/200 Membership card for WBF for ICOM (plastic card, in French and English)
/2/201 Press card for WBF for 1er Festival culturel Pan Africain at Algiers (printed and autogr.)
/202 RAI, reader’s ticket for WBF (printed card)
/203 Card for Jones Galleries, Amsterdam (printed with autogr. note)
/204 Invoice to WBF from RAI for Christmas cards, 24 Dec. [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/205 Gretchen Greene to WBF, invitation to an ‘impromptu farewell’ on 2 Feb. [?year] (autogr.)
/206 List of names (autogr.)
/207 Prof. & Mrs Evans-Pritchard to [WBF?], nd – invitation to an ‘At Home’ on 15 June [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/208 Artists International Association, nd – invitation to an exhibition of works by Ernest Asihene, to be opened on 22 July [?year] (tp.)
/209 Geoffrey Baron to [WBF?], nd – on a ‘Special Pools Investment Service’. 2 leaves (tp.)
/210 Flyer for United Asia (printed)
/211 MWP to WBF, nd – asks him to order ‘The World of Masks’ for her; she will pay for it; is taking the Rouaults for framing (autogr.) [incomplete]
/212 Postcards of Lugano. 7 leaves (printed cards)
/213 Postcard of Canterbury Cathedral (printed card)
/214 Postcards of Carona. 2 leaves (printed cards)
/215 JAL Pocket Guide (printed booklet)
/216 Brochure for ‘Galerie de Fetisj’, Delft (printed booklet)
/217 Flyer for ‘Nigeria in Maps’ (printed)
/218 Francesca Pollard, ‘Faircop. Fuhrhop’, ‘The True Story of Tiny Rowland’. 17 leaves (tp.)
/219 Certified copy of an entry of marriage between Roland Walter Rowland and Josephine Taylor (photocopy, with tp. note ‘Name of father falsely recorded’)
/220 Poster for an exhibition ‘Skatte fra det Fjerne’, 30 May-22 June 1952 (printed, in Danish)
/2/221 Four cards with designs by Kenneth F. Campbell, 1971. 4 leaves (printed)
/222 Programme for Katherine Dunham show (printed)
/223 Programme for ‘Don’t Listen, Ladies!’ (printed)
/224 Flyer for ‘African Arts & Letters’ (printed brochure)
/225 Programme for the Philadelphia Orchestra, 11 & 12 Apr. 1947 (printed)
/226 Ibid., 18 & 19 Apr. 1947 (printed)
/227 Flyer for an exhibition of Celadon Pottery and Porcelain by James Walford at the Berkeley Galleries (printed)
/228 Brochure for the National Theatre of Japan (printed)
/229 Bangkok World comic section (printed)
/230 Brochure for the Post Office Tower, London (printed)
/231 Small poster for the de Havenon Collection at the Museum of African Art, Washington (printed)
/232 Invitation to an exhibition ‘Afrikaanse Beeldhouwkunst: nieuw zicht op een erfgoed/Sculptures Africaines: nouveau regard sur un héritage’ at the Marcel Peeters Centrum, Antwerp (printed card, in Dutch and French)
/233 Invitation to an exhibition of works by Joseph Herman at the West Surrey College of Art & Design (printed leaflet)
/234 ‘Horniman’s Dream: a proposal to expand the museum’ (printed booklet)
/235 Ibid. (printed leaflet)
/236 Flyer for Eskenazi, Oriental Art (printed)
/237 Ibid. for ‘Netsuke’ by Neil K. Davey (printed)
/238 Invitation to the private view of an exhibition of Danish Glass at the V&A (printed card)
/239 Postcards of scenes in Japan. 14 leaves (printed cards in a paper bag)
/240 Invitation to the opening of the exhibition ‘Contemporary Native Arts of Canada’ (printed card)
/2/241 Samples of Curzon cover paper, from William Clowes & Sons
/242 Samples of Bohemia cover [paper], from William Clowes & Sons
/243 Card advertising ‘The Art of the Lobi’ at the James Willis Gallery, San Francisco (printed)
/244 Emile Deletaille, best wishes for the New Year (printed card)
/245 Card advertising an exhibition of Indian and Eskimo drawings by James Houston, at the Robertson Galleries, Ottawa (printed)
/246 Card advertising an exhibition of Yoruba, Cameroons, Dogon at the Lippell Gallery, Montréal (printed)
/247 Brochure on the autumn/winter programme, 1974/75, at the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart (printed, in German)
/248 Invitation to the private view of the exhibition ‘The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975’ at the V&A (printed card)
/249 Horniman Museum, list of lectures and concerts, autumn 1974; WBF to speak on African Art on 7 Dec. (printed brochure)
/250 Brochure on the Museum of African Art, Washington (printed)
/251 Illustration of the Museum of African Art, Washington (printed)
/252 Encyclopaedia Britannica, advertisement for a multimedia kit ‘The Creative Heritage of Africa’ (printed)
/253 Invitation to the private view of the exhibition ‘The Maya’ at the BM (printed card)
.1 Insert regarding the timing of the reception (tp.)
/254 Flyer about ‘Le Néolithiquue de la Provence’ by Jean Courtin (printed, in French)
/255 Invitation to the first showing of a book by Henry Moore dedicated to W.H. Auden at the BM on 23 Apr. 1974 (printed card)
/256 Information about an exhibition at the BM of Auden poems and Moore lithographs (tp.)
/2/257 The Trustees of the BM to WBF, nd – invitation to attend a reception in honour of Mr Henry Moore (printed and autogr.)
/258 Bethnal Green Museum, nd – invitation to the opening of the exhibition ‘Automobile Art’ (printed card)
/259 Guide to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (printed booklet)
/260 Brochure for ‘Jan le Witt’ by Sir Herbert Read and Jean Cassou (printed)
/261 Flyer for the exhibition ‘Pflanzen und Landschaften in der Kunst Ostasiens’ at the Lindenmuseum, Stuttgart (printed, in German)
/262 Christmas card from Mr & Mrs P.M Shariffuddin (printed)
/263 Street map of Washington, DC (printed)
/264 Street map of Bangkok (printed)
/265 The Lions Club of Kuching, brochure for an exhibition of Indonesian Arts and Crafts (printed booklet)
/266 Guide to the Galleries of the Honolulu Academy of Arts (printed brochure)
/267 Information about the use of cameras in the Honolulu Academy of Arts (printed)
/268 Honolulu Academy of Arts, flyer for ‘Chinese Treasures’ (printed)
/269 Card concerning the opening preview of ‘Major Works of Art (Tribal Truth’ at the Merton D. Simpson Gallery (printed)
/270 nd – Christmas card from G.W.B. Huntingford (printed and autogr.)
/271 Ibid. – ibid. from Charles Partridge (printed and autogr.)
/272 Ibid. – ibid. from Mrs Oscar Hauser, Mr & Mrs Paul Schaufelberger-Hauser and Family (printed)
/273 Ibid. – ibid. from Norton & Dorothy [Medlicott] (printed and autogr.)
/274 Ibid. – ibid. from Lita Osmundsen, Wenner-Gren Foundation (printed and autogr.)
/2/275 Ibid. – ibid. from Bryan [Cranstone] (printed and autogr.)
/276 Ibid. – ibid. from Helene and Werner [Muensterberger] (printed and autogr.)
/276a Ibid. – ibid. from G.I. Jones (autogr.)
/277 Ibid. – New Year card from Irene and Max Mohl (autogr.)
/278 S. Tardieu to [WBF?], 23 Dec. [?year] – on his Christmas card; sends good wishes for Christmas and the New Year; on his visiting France (autogr., in French)
/279 Christmas card, nd, from WBF (printed)
/280 A different Christmas card, nd, from WBF (printed)
/281 A different Christmas card, nd, from WBF (printed)
/282 A different Christmas card, nd, from WBF (printed)
/283 A different Christmas card, 1948, from WBF (printed)
.1 WBF, nd – text for inside of the card (autogr.)
.2 John Hooke, the Abbey Press, to WBF, 7 Dec. [1948?] – encloses proof of his card; queries the type of the word ‘Greetings’ (tp.)
.3 WBF, nd – note on the position of the photo on the front page (autogr.)
/284 WBF, nd – note about heads (autogr.)
/285 Index cards with names. 13 leaves (autogr.)
/286 List of years with images [of Christmas cards?] (autogr.)
/287 WBF, nd – list of names. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/288 WBF Christmas card list. 3 leaves (autogr. in another hand; water damaged)
/289 WBF, list of people to whom he sent Christmas cards [?] in 1952. 6 leaves (autogr.) [see /1/176]
/290 Ibid., ibid. for 1953. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/291 Ibid., ibid. for 1954. 5 leaves (autogr.)
/292 Ibid., ibid. for 1955 (autogr.)
/2/293 H.J. Braunholtz to [WBF?], nd – on photos; on the RAI Ways and Means Committee; on the NACF jubilee; on turning out the offices; mentions an ICA show which opens next week (autogr.; page missing)
/294 Leon U[nderwood] to WBF, nd – on prints; on pottery (autogr. note)
/295 F.G. Williamson to ibid., ibid. – on a young fan of WBF’s who is on a kidney machine; on his condition; he enjoys ethnology; he admires WBF’s work; asks if WBF could find a souvenir of himself for him. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/296 Newspaper cutting on Margaret Wrong. 2 leaves
/297 Waikikian Hotel, Hawaii, nd – telephone message for WBF from Dr Force who is at the Bishop Museum (tp.; water damaged)
/298 Business card of the Harry A. Franklin Gallery (printed with autogr. note on verso)
/299 Ibid. of Mr Morris R. Blumberg (printed and tp. with autogr. note on verso)
/300 Ibid. of Le Père F.M. Rodegem (printed with autogr. notes)
/301 Ibid. of Bel Air Travel (printed)
/302 Notice of the death in July 1967 of Jack Trevor (newspaper cutting)
/303 Review of ‘Congo Kitabu’ by Jean-Pierre Hallet (newspaper cutting)
/304 WBF, 30 Apr. 1960 – notes from an article[?] in the New Yorker on strontium 90 (autogr.; water damaged)
/305 Ibid., 1969[?] – on annual leave (autogr.)
/306 nd – note on postage account (tp.)
/307 Note of the name and address of Jean Brown (autogr.)
/308 Note of the name and address of Allen Davis (autogr.)
/309 Invitation to the opening of an exhibition on 13 Apr. [?year} at the Galleria Arte Primitiva (printed, in Italian)
/2/310 30 May 1943 – ‘Nazis’ False Idea of Man’ (newspaper cutting)
/311 22 Nov. 1955 – ‘Should Britain Borrow?’ (newspaper cutting)
/312 Kl. Clausmeyer to WBF, nd – on WBF’s letter [not held]; on going to the Nigeria exhibition; on meeting (autogr.; water damaged)
/313 Note of Wassén’s address and directions to get there (tp.)
/314 Note concerning W.J. Howard (autogr.)
/315 Verse taken from ‘Chips from a German Workshop’ by F. Max Müller (autogr.)
/316 Manchester Guardian, 10 Feb. 1942 – ‘“Forward March”’ (newspaper cutting)
/317 News of the World, 8 Apr. 1945 – ‘“Mabel” is Found’ (newspaper cutting)
/318 ‘Mr Eden’s Illness’ (newspaper cutting)
/319 WBF, nd – notes on ‘Works’ by Drayton (autogr.)
/320 Envelope with Ghanaian banknotes. 9 leaves
/321 Dauphin Robert Albreaux III, 16 July 1973 – drawing of a ‘Tilbia’ ancestral pair (drawing)
/322 WBF to [the Editor of Time], nd – on British public life (autogr. draft)
/323 Business card for John Giltsoff (printed)
/324 Ibid. for Irène de Charrière, Musée Barbier-Müller (printed)
/325 Pages from a translation of ‘The Golden Lotus’ by Chin P’ing Mei, by Lement Egerton. 8 leaves (photocopy)
/326 London School of Hygiene and Guy’s Hospital to WBF, c. 28 May 1969 – letters concerning a health survey in the Civil Service. 2 leaves (tp. and autogr.; water damaged)
/327 Lilian Fagg to WBF, nd [1969] – was happy to know he was comfortably installed in Algeria; on BEBF; mentions Angela and Monica; he has not said when he is returning; shall be glad to have him home again (autogr.; water damaged)
/2/328 WBF, nd – brief notes headed ‘Benin’. 5 leaves (autogr.)
/329 Various notes in various hands. 5 leaves (autogr.)
/330 Estimates relating to lots in a sale of Tribal Art at Christie’s on 27 Apr. 1976 (printed)
/331 Business card of Dr H. Ganslmayr (printed)
/332 Ibid. of Robert B. Keating (printed with autogr. note)
/333 Ibid. of Roda and Gil Graham (printed)
/334 Ibid. of Roy Sieber (printed with autogr. note)
/335 Ibid. of Max Willborg (printed)
/336 Ibid. of David J. Crownover (printed with autogr. note)
/337 Ibid. of F. Rolin & Co. Inc. (printed with autogr. note)
/338 Ibid. of Vernon McKay (printed with autogr. note)
/339 Ibid. of Berta Montero Bascom (printed)
/340 Ibid. of David Meltzer (printed)
[No number 341]
/342 Ibid. of Everett Rassiga Inc. (printed with autogr. note)
/343 Ibid. of Maurice Bonnefoy (printed with autogr. note)
[No number 344]
/345 Ibid. of Joel Cooper (printed)
/346 Ibid. of Samuel T. Freeman[?] (printed)
/347 Ibid. of Bunga Raya Malaysian Restaurant (printed)
/348 Note relating to Dr & Mrs Bernard Berk, with address (autogr.)
/349 Note relating to Mrs Freda Rosenthal (autogr.)
/350 WBF, nd – rough notes (autogr.)
/351 Notes relating to Maria Ginzberg. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/2/352 J.A. Franklin to [WBF], nd – encloses his copy of an Information Return for the year 1963; the amount shown should be shown on his Federal and State tax returns (tp.)
/353 ‘Withholding Tax Statement’ for 1963 for WBF. 2 leaves (printed and tp.) [enclosed with /2/352]
/354 Note of the telephone number[?] of Antonio Trindade (autogr.)
/355 Clayre & Jay Haft to [WBF?], nd – invitation to cocktails and canapés on 18 Sept. [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/356 Various rough notes in various hands. 5 leaves (autogr.)
/357 ‘The Snapping of the President’ – article about Arnold Newman photographing US Presidents. 6 pages (printed magazine pages)
/358 Notes relating to BOAC. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/359 Dick Faletti to WBF, nd – Christmas greeting (post-it note stuck to a photocopy)
/360 Roy Sieber to ibid., nd – he and Soph must go to dinner; asks him to call Lasansky (autogr. note)
/361 The Highlander Inn, nd – telephone message for WBF from Prof. Lasansky (autogr. note)
/362 Sophie Sieber, the Highlander Inn, to WBF, 26 Apr. [?year] – Roy is giving a lecture but she is there; has several messages for him; asks him to call (autogr.)
/363 The Museum of Primitive Art, nd – invitation to the private opening on 20 Feb. [?year] (printed card)
/364 WBF, nd – rough notes (autogr.)
/365 Plan Reproduction Co. Ltd., invoice to WBF, nd (printed and autogr.)
/366 Draft reply by WBF for inclusion in Miss Webb’s letter to Dr La Fontaine; on collaboration between University Departments and the Museum of Mankind; the Museum has benefited from contacts with social anthropologists; on social anthropology and cultural anthropology; on definitions of ethnology and ethnography. 3 leaves (tpc.)
/2/367 WBF to […?], nd – this letter subsumes one written before Christmas [possibly /2/368] in reply to Miss Hussman’s telephone calls about the Yoruba bronze figure; he consulted Hermione Waterfield; she agreed it is an exceptionally fine piece; $100,000 would not be an impossible figure as an estimate; on the manner in which the birds have been attached; thinks London may have the edge over New York for a piece of this kind (autogr. draft)
/368 Ibid. to Geraldine Hussman, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, nd – has consulted Miss Waterfield about the Yoruba bronze figure; she has asked him to reply on her behalf; thinks there may be an edge in favour of London as to where to sell the figure; explains why (autogr. draft)
/369 John [Picton] to WBF, nd – on the Arcade Gallery Yoruba lady with a bowl; asks if it could be the work of Olowe of Ise (autogr.)
/370 WBF, nd – note on a pair by the same hand as a piece in the Müller sale of Mar. 1979 (autogr.)
/371 Extract from ‘The Sibylline Books of Tribal Art’ in Blackfriars. 3 leaves (photocopy)
/372 WBF, 1 May 1978 – expertise on a piece; on its authenticity, age and function. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/373 Ibid., nd – list of artists[?] (autogr.)
/374 Ibid., ibid. – ibid. (autogr.)
/375 Ibid., ibid. – note on an ibeji (autogr.)
/376 Ibid., ibid. – notes on a Yoruba mask, a Yoruba Eshu pair, and an Urhobo figure. 3 leaves (photocopy and tp.)
/377 ‘A Further Note on the Larger Barbier-Mueller Yoruba Ring’. 2 leaves (tpc.)
/378 J. Pemberton III, ‘A Cluster of Sacred Symbols: Orisa Worship among the Igbomina Yoruba of Ila-Orangun’. 11 leaves (printed; some pages missing)
/379 WBF, nd – note on a mask headdress (autogr.)
/380 Notes on a Yoruba housepost by Maku of Erin, a mother dandling her child (tpc.)
/381 WBF, nd – notes on artefacts, headed ‘Marder’. 8 leaves (autogr. draft)
/2/382 Text on a Yoruba ivory group; information about Lt. Col. L.E.H. Humfrey (photocopy)
/383 WBF, nd [late 1980s?] – notes on a bronze male figure cast onto an iron staff (tp. with autogr. additions)
/384 Ibid., nd – notes on contributors to Yoruba studies (autogr. draft; incomplete)
/385 [Frank Willett], nd – notes on various artefacts; mentions Ryder. 11 leaves (photocopy; incomplete)
/386 Page from the Illustrated London News, 13 Dec. 1947 – ‘Ancient Benin Culture, expressed in Ivory and Bronze’ (printed)
/387 WBF, nd – quotation from C. Wills, ‘White Traveller in Black Africa’ (autogr.)
/388 BEBF to [Hugh Nevins?], recd. 18 Aug. 1966 – on his file of correspondence about the Benin terracotta heads; has not yet contacted WBF to see if the notes can be traced; refers to Trenchard’s map of Okwoga District; it is very fragile; [note to WBF:] asks what happened to Hugh Nevins’ notes (photocopy) [see MS 499/5/145]
/389 BEBF, Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum, 1975 – ‘Introduction to the Re-print of Antique Works of Art from Benin’ by A.H.L.-F. Pitt-Rivers’. 3 leaves (tp.)
/390 WBF, nd – ‘Note on a small Benin bronze figure of a Portuguese from the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham’ (autogr. draft)
/391 John McKesson, article on the Collection of Marian and Daniel Malcolm; pages from Arts d’Afrique Noire, No. 54, summer 1985. 7 leaves (photocopy)
/392 WBF, nd – ‘Sibylline Books and other problems in Ife and Benin Studies’. 5 leaves (autogr. draft; incomplete) [see MS 501/20/65]
/393 Ibid., ibid. – ibid., notes. 7 leaves (autogr.)
[No number 394]
/395 The Independent, 22 Feb. 1997 – ‘The looting of Benin’ (newspaper page)
/396 O. Ologbosere to the Independent, 24 Feb. 1997 – ‘My ancestor was killed at Benin’ (newspaper cutting)
/2/397 Christine Kelly, 25 Feb. 1997 – ‘Safer bronzes’ (newspaper cutting)
/398 Elugbe’s Edo Language Classification and Iya Distribution’. 4 leaves (tp. with map and diagrams)
/399 List of catalogue numbers[?] headed ‘British Museum’. 5 leaves (tp.)
/400 List of film numbers, with locations. 13 leaves (tp.)
/401 ‘List of Objects in Berlin not illustrated in Von Luschan’ and ‘Objects not now in Berlin but illustrated in Von Luschan’. 7 leaves (tp. with autogr. additions)
/402 List of objects, most leaves headed ‘Von Luschan Index’. 48 leaves (tp.)
/403 WBF, nd – list of objects (autogr.)
/404 Pages from ‘The Addresses of the Oba of Benin in connexion with ARUOSA (Edo National Church of God, re-established 11.12.45)’. 11 leaves (photocopy)
/405 WBF, 7 June 1950 – notes on a Benin Horse-head Box (autogr.)
/406 Ibid., nd – brief note on the Beasley collection (autogr.)
/407 Ibid., extract from a letter from A.H. Brodrick to H.G. Beasley, 14 June 1932 (autogr.)
/408 Ibid., nd – note on an ivory horseman and drums (autogr.)
/409 Ibid., ibid. – notes on Benin ivory spoons etc. (autogr.)
/410 Ibid., ibid. – notes on objects in the Beasley Benin Collection. 8 leaves (autogr.)
/411 Ibid., ibid. – note on a Benin head (autogr.)
/412 Scrap book of cuttings and pictures concerning Benin, containing:
.1 R.B. Allman, ‘With the Punitive Expedition to Benin City’. 6 leaves (tp.) [inserted into the scrap book]
.2 List of a collection of antique works of art from Benin City, collected by the late Dr R. Allman. 3 leaves [inserted into the scrap book]
/2/413 Pencil rubbing of a figure
/414 BM to the University College of the Gold Coast, nd – invoice for African art works (printed and tp.)
/415 WBF, nd – notes on Benin horsemen (autogr.)
/416 Notes headed ‘Agwobasimi says’; list of plates from ‘British Museum Antiquities from Benin’. 4 leaves (autogr.)
/417 ‘The Curse of Obo’, marked by WBF ‘Draft of J. Wyndham’s notes for the book’. 26 leaves (tp.)
/418 Illustration of a human sacrifice at Benin, with note ‘reproduced by Ling Roth’ (printed)
/419 Evening Standard, 6 Sept. 1950 – illustration of the Oba of Benin at the wheel of a London bus (newspaper cutting)
/420 WBF, nd – two references, to Read and Bouteiller (autogr.)
/421 Notes headed N.W. Thomas, ‘Information from Aro, Ine (chief of Brasssmiths), Ossa, Ojumo, Eguroma, Egbogador, Eholon (Ivorycarver) and Ehato (formerly King’s steward) all of Benin City’. 3 double pages (autogr.)
/422 WBF, nd – rough notes. 4 leaves (autogr.)
/423 Ibid., ibid. – note asking for information about a museum in Dublin (autogr.)
/424 Ibid., ibid. – note on an Udo figure (autogr.)
/425 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts (autogr.)
/426 Ibid., ibid. – notes on various artefacts. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/427 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts and text of a telegram (autogr.)
/428 Ibid., ibid. – notes on items, headed ‘June ? sale’ (autogr.)
/429 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts (autogr.)
/430 Ibid., ibid. – rough notes. 5 leaves (autogr.)
/431 L.R. L[angton], BM, nd – note on a Benin head (autogr.)
/2/432 Flyer for Sotheby’s (printed)
/433 Catalogue for a sale of Benin Bronzes at Messrs. Foster, on 1 May 1930 (printed booklet)
/434 Catalogue for a sale of Fine Benin Bronzes, West African and Oriental Curios at Messrs. Foster, on 16 July 1931 (printed booklet)
/435 Catalogue for a sale of Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, American, African and Oceanic Art, Etc. at Sotheby & Co. on 20 & 21 Dec. 1948 (printed booklet)
/436 Catalogue for a sale of A Collection of Ancient Seals and Greek, Roman and Egyptian Antiquities and Ethnographical Art at Sotheby & Co. n 15 & 16 Jan. 1952 (printed booklet)
/437 Catalogue for a sale of Ethnographical Art and Antiquities at Sotheby & Co. on 26 June 1952 (printed booklet)
/438 Catalogue for a sale of Egyptian and Classical Antiquities, Islamic and Ethnographical Art at Sotheby & Co. on 7 Dec. 1953 (printed booklet)
/439 Catalogue for a sale of Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Persian and Oriental Works of Art and Important Benin Sculpture at Sotheby & Co. on 26 Apr. 1954 (printed booklet)
/440 Catalogue for a sale of Ethnographical and Oriental Art, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities at Sotheby & Co. on 5 & 6 July 1954 (printed booklet)
/441 K. Timmermans to [WBF?], 20 Apr. [?year] – contacted him some months ago at Christie’s; showed him some pictures of a Yoruba bronze shrine figure; asks if he will expertise the piece in Belgium; on arrangements; if he comes to his house, he can see the collection (autogr.)
/442 Ibid., 21 Apr. [?year] – forgot to insert photographs of the Yoruba piece in his previous letter [/2/441] (autogr.)
/443 Deborah [Hammer] to WBF, 16 Oct. [?year] – on an Owu Shango; on its sale; spoke to Kevin Coviru to find out the purchaser but has not heard anything; on the price. 2 leaves (autogr. note with photocopy of a page from Arts d’Afrique Noire advertising the sale at Bonhams)
/2/444 Brigitte Lohmeyer to [WBF?], nd – Christmas card; has seen his exhibition at Munich; congratulates him (autogr.)
.1 Business card of Brigitte Lohmeyer (printed and autogr.)
/445 […?] to [WBF?], nd – thanks him for help with the magazine; hopes to see him (autogr. pc)
/446 Prof. E.E. Evans-Pritchard, All Souls College, Oxford, to WBF, nd – invites him to lunch on 8 Nov. [?year] (autogr. pc)
/447 Audrey & Paul [Chancellor] to ibid., nd – on seeing him briefly last week; on seeing three ballets by Stravinsky; on a book on the Russian artist Natalia Gontcharova; have both had bad colds; on WBF giving them the BM Bulletin; look forward to seeing him in November. 3 pages (autogr.)
/448 Harry [Wadsworth] to ibid., ibid. – mentions Hervey at Scrimgeours, getting out a revalued list (autogr.)
/449 Rachel [Evans] to ibid., 19 Aug. [?year] – thanks him for dinner; asks if he has seen the Somerset House exhibition; invites him to see it and have lunch with her; suggests dates (autogr. pc)
/450 Eve Molesworth to ibid., 23 Oct. [?year] – is staying in Florence for a rest; was touched by his thoughtfulness; glad he saw Moles at the Sainsburys’; on his death; is staying on in the Orangery which he loved; on her visit to Tuscany; on the house she is staying in (autogr.)
/451 Gill Brasher to WBF, nd – on Pourri carrying on as normal while he is away; she will shampoo the carpets and clean out the cupboards; the house will be like a new pin on his return; on his Hoover; sends best wishes to Mrs Fagg. 3 pages (autogr.)
/452 Harry [Wadsworth] to ibid., nd – is now installed; on coming to the meeting next Thursday as an observer (autogr.)
/453 William Capstick[?] to ibid., nd – Mrs Craddock and his wife Celia will both visit WBF’s mother (autogr. card)
/454 Roger […?], British Airways, to ibid., nd – sorry to hear of his accident; sends sympathy (autogr.)
/2/455 Lane Berk to [WBF?], nd – reflects upon the gentle thought that he might need a ‘watering hole’ on his way to or from Washington DC; gives her address (autogr. note)
/456 Business card of Very Rev. Michael J. Walsh (printed with autogr. note introducing Mrs Sheila Hanlon and her friend)
/457 Susan […?] to [WBF?], nd – thanks him for dinner; on the weather; invites him for a drink (autogr.)
/458 Jill Swart to WBF, nd – thanks him for dinner; on Beverley (autogr.)
/459 Mr B.H. Townshend to ibid., nd – invites him for Sherry & Cocktails or Wine on 9 Apr. [?year] (tp. and autogr.)
/460 Marie & Nolan van der Schyff, nd – change of address card (autogr. with pc attached)
/461 Hermione [Waterfield] to WBF, nd – blesses him for the excellent lunch and tea; she felt nourished in body and spirit; discusses how much she values his friendship; on her health; thanks him for putting up with her (autogr.)
/462 Sannie Drew to ibid., 30 Aug. [?year] – thanks him for publishing the article in Man; on the excellent exhibition at the Imp. Inst.; it is rather out of the way; the Illustrated London News are publishing two pages of the paintings; if he is passing she would be glad to give him a meal (autogr.)
/463 Laura & Peter Shuter to [WBF], nd – New Year card
/464 Edmund R. Leach to WBF, nd – will miss his lecture at the Royal Society, which he would like to have heard (autogr.)
/465 Invitation to the wedding of Mary Tew to James Douglas (printed, in English and French)
/466 Mr J.A.T. Douglas to WBF, nd – invitation to cider and cakes on 3 Oct. (printed and autogr. with note by Mary [Tew/Douglas] regarding Bushongo volumes)
/467 Frans [Olbrechts] to [WBF], nd – was glad to see so much of him on his visit to London; looks forward to WBF’s visit in the spring; encloses a letter he should have sent ages ago; asks that WBF give it room in the files of the RAI (autogr. card)
/2/468 Mrs Laura Shuter to WBF, nd – invitation to the wedding of her daughter Helen on 3 Oct. [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/469 Geraldine Shuter to ibid., nd – was sorry he could not come to Helen’s wedding; sends him some cake; asks about his programme on Nigeria (autogr.)
/470 Beíz[?] […?] to ibid., nd – thanks him for the record; shall play it and remember good times in Ife; hopes he has a safe journey back; gives address in England (autogr. card)
/471 Ibid., ibid. – has just arrived from Ibadan; is confused; would prefer tomorrow night; shall look for transport (autogr.)
/472 Ibid., ibid. – thanks him for confirmation; on the date of his party; on an engagement at the Baptist Mission; has no intention of not attending his party; shall make arrangements with the Baptist girls (autogr.)
/473 Margaret […?] to ibid., Nov. 6 [?year] – regrets that so much time has gone by before writing; often thinks of the wonderful days in London; Paul counts working with WBF at the BM as the highlights of his trip; is good to hear that he is coming to the States in Feb.; MWP gave them the news; hopes he is settled in his new home; on Miss Bennet-Clark; on Paul’s activities; it is always good to hear from WBF. 4 pages (autogr.)
/474 Bill Bertolet to ibid., nd – MWP has sent a cheque to be paid to him; has endorsed it and signed it over to him; is leaving London today; is sorry not to see him but has been very busy (autogr.)
/475 Lady Jamieson to [WBF?], nd – invitation to dinner on 30 June {?year} (printed and autogr. card)
/476 Mollie Gilbey to WBF, 7 Jan. [?year] – reminds him of the Gilbey family who lived opposite MWP; is wondering if she is all right; asks if he could let her know; has moved to Buckinghamshire (autogr.)
/477 Ibid., 5 Feb. [?year] – it was kind of him to write about MWP; would have loved to have seen her but had had illness in the family; hopes she enjoyed her time in Egypt (autogr.)
/478 Pat Tew to ibid., nd – looks forward to hearing news of his trip and of Mary; asks him for supper on the boat one evening; gives directions; shall look forward to it (autogr. with map)
/2/479 Ibid., nd – has just got back from Paris and found his note about photographs; is sad to see she is too late; but in case he sees his friend from the ILN again sends some photographs; the photos are copyrighted; any details about the school can be told by the architect; refers to BEBF’s visit (autogr.)
/480 Hermione [Waterfield] to ibid., 15 Aug. [?year] – thanks him for excellent luncheon; refers to the Washington exhibition; Faust on Thursday would have been lovely but looks impossible; includes drawing of an unusual Bakota reliquary figure (autogr.)
/481 S[usan] […?] to ibid., nd – on sprouting broccoli; has paid Jim; hopes he had a good trip (autogr. note)
/482 Prue […?] to ibid., 26 Dec. [?year] – is contrite to receive his Christmas card; has not written for about two years; has not thanked him for the wedding present received in Apr.; likes the book very much; has been very busy; left the Board finally at the end of May; had a daughter on 27 Aug.; asks him to supper to meet the baby; on the baby; on her sister Elinor who has also had a daughter; Robert is still with the LPO; asks if he has been to any of their concerts; on Meg and Jack. 4 pages (autogr.)
/483 Margaret [Rolfe] to ibid., 14 May [?year] – it is ages since they met; she hardly ever comes to London; on her sister Rachel who has been teaching since the war; she is exhausted with this aspect of education; her social conscience will not allow her to teach in the private sector; believes that museums sometimes take on teachers to lecture to school parties; gives Rachel’s qualifications; asks if there is a chance of an opening of this kind in the BM; is convinced Rachel would do it well; gives news of Cathy and Marianne; on ‘the rest’; on Edmund; on her own activities; asks him down for a weekend. 8 pages (autogr.)
/484 R. Duperrier to [WBF?], nd – New Year greetings (printed and autogr. card)
/485 Robert [Bleakley] to WBF, nd – Christmas card
/486 Audrey & Paul [Chancellor] to ibid., 17 Apr. [?year] – say how much they enjoyed his book ‘Tones and Images’; was happy to have him as best man; glad to see him looking so fit; on three shows at the V. and A.; tell him not to work too hard on the new project (autogr.)
/487 Change of address card for Mrs E.W. Fuller (printed)
/2/487a Diana Fletcher-Cooke, University of London, Institute of Archaeology, to WBF, nd – has heard that he is going to her cousin Julian Pitt-Rivers’ lecture at the RAI; asks if he would like to come to a supper party for him (autogr.)
/487b Rachel Evans to ibid., nd – invitation to sherry on 25 Jan. [?year] (printed and autogr.)
/487c Hermione [Waterfield] to ibid., 20 Jan. [?year] – thanks him for a marvelous evening just before he left; has been to a talk by Gerhards on the Asmat in the RAI Art Panel ‘do’; the Asmat had been issued with khaki shorts for the official film (autogr.)
/487d Revd. William J. Rooney to ibid., nd – MWP tells him that WBF is coming to Philadelphia; looks forward to seeing him; it is good to know that his health is improved (autogr.)
/488 EJL & Mikel to WBF & Lilian [Fagg], nd – thoughts are with them at this season; were sorry not to get to the great opening; give him John Lindgren’s telephone number (autogr. card)
/489 Slips of paper, each with a reference number and a note of an artefact, with provenance. 94 leaves (autogr.)
/490 Illustration of a samurai (printed)
/491 Note of a telephone message for WBF from Mr Ian Hunter of the Commonwealth Arts Festival; mentions Mr Tygard (autogr.)
/492 Synopsis of ‘Collecting African Art’ [by Werner Gillon]. 4 leaves (photocopy)
.1 Business card of J.W. Gillon, London (printed with autogr. note)
/493 Text on Neolithic Art [catalogue entry?] 6 leaves (tp.)
/494 Text on North American Indian Art [catalogue entry?] 10 leaves (tp.)
/495 Text on Polynesian Art [catalogue entry?] 13 leaves (tp.)
/496 Text on Spanish Rock Paintings [catalogue entry?] 5 leaves (tp.)
/497 Text on Totem Pole [catalogue entry?] (tp.)
/498 Text on Sutton Hoo Ship Burial [catalogue entry?] 4 leaves (tp. with autogr. addition)
/2/499 Text on Primitive Art [catalogue entry?] 5 leaves (tp. with autogr. additions)
/500 Text on Nestorian Art [catalogue entry?] (printed cutting)
/500a Text on Quaternary Art [catalogue entry?] (printed cutting)
/501 WBF, nd – text on Leon Siroto and his year in Europe; on his volunteering in the BM; on work for which he would be suitable, etc. (autogr. draft)
/502 Ibid., ibid. – note on ‘the stereotype’ (autogr.)
/503 Gallery Forty Three, card advertising Summer Exhibition of Tribal Arts from New Guinea, Central America and Africa (printed)
/504 Postcard of Le Pouldu (printed)
/505 Flyer for the Art Gallery Van Lier (printed) [phot. 115765]
/506 Museum labels, West Africa and Congo. 18 leaves (printed and autogr., one metal)
/507 Museum labels, East Africa. 14 leaves (tp.)
/508 Notes on various artefacts (photocopy)
/509 Flyer for the May Company Exhibition and Sale of Pre-Columbian Art (printed)
/510 Brochure about the May Company’s show of Pre-Columbian Art (printed)
/511 Postcard with note of Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University (printed with autogr. note)
/512 WBF, nd – rough notes (autogr.)
/513 Academy of Sciences of USSR, list of African Sculptures. 2 leaves (tp. with autogr. notes by WBF)
[No number 514]
/515 […?] to WBF, nd – note on Tumuni Bronzes (autogr.)
/516 Text on ‘Art in Hawaiian Society’. 3 leaves (photocopy)
/517 Illustrations of various artefacts. 17 leaves (printed)
/2/518 Pages from ‘Roots of the Future/Through the Eyes of Others’. 4 leaves (photocopy)
/519 WBF, nd – lists of artefacts, with catalogue numbers[?] 3 leaves (autogr.)
/520 List of collections (autogr.)
/521 David Crownover, ‘Nigeria … art and everyday life’. 58 leaves (photocopy with autogr. additions)
/522 Card with notes of measurements of bases and glass cases (autogr.)
/523 WBF, nd – rough notes (autogr.)
/524 The Berkeley Galleries, information sheet about an exhibition ‘Sculptures and Paintings by Ben Enwonwu of Onitsha (Benin)’. 7 leaves (tp.)
/525 Galerie Apollinaire, card advertising an exhibition of Sculpture and Painting by Ben Enwonwu, to be opened on 5 Sept. 1952 (printed)
/526 The Illustrated London News, 3 July 1948 – ‘An “Epstein” of West Africa: a Modern Nigerian Artist’s Work’, article on Ben Enwonwu (newspaper page)
/527 The Nigerian Citizen, 1 Sept. 1949 – ‘Ben Enwonwu Tours the North’ (newspaper cutting)
/528 Ibid., ibid. – ‘Impressions of an Artist’ (newspaper cutting)
/529 Ibid., 25 Aug. 1949 – ‘H.H. Opens Exhibition’ (newspaper cutting)
/530 16 Dec. 1949 – ‘How to Enjoy Paintings’ (newspaper cutting)
/531 WBF, nd – index cards with very brief notes. 2 leaves (cards)
/532 Ibid., ibid. – index cards, each with a note of an artefact, some with brief notes. 176 leaves (autogr.)
/532a Ibid., ibid. – slips of paper with place names and reference numbers. 182 leaves (autogr.) [wrapper suggests these are cross-references for field notes, by town, 1949-59]
/532b Ibid., ibid. – list of places, with reference numbers. 3 leaves (autogr.)
[NB the diaries and passports generally have the catalogue number inside]
/2/533 WBF, diary 1941 (printed with autogr. notes)
/534 Ibid., diary 1944 (printed with autogr. notes)
/535 Ibid., diary 1945 (printed with autogr. notes)
/536 Ibid., diary 1946 (printed with autogr. notes)
/537 Ibid., diary 1947 (printed with autogr. notes)
/538 Ibid., diary 1948 (printed with autogr. notes)
/539 Ibid., diary 1949 (printed with autogr. notes)
/540 Ibid., ibid. with autogr. entries for Sept. (notebook)
/541 Ibid., diary 1951 (printed with autogr. notes)
/542 Ibid., diary 1952 (printed with autogr. notes)
/543 Ibid., diary 1953 (printed with autogr. notes)
/544 Ibid., diary 1954 (printed with autogr. notes; notebook)
/545 Ibid., diary 1956 (printed with autogr. notes)
/546 Ibid., diary 1958 (printed with autogr. notes)
/547 Ibid., diary 1962 (printed with autogr. notes)
/548 [Ibid.], diary 1964 (printed)
/549 WBF, diary 1965 (printed with autogr. notes)
/550 Ibid., diary 1966 (printed with autogr. notes)
/551 Ibid., diary 1968 (printed with autogr. notes)
/552 Ibid., diary 1969 (printed with autogr. notes)
/553 Ibid., diary 1970 (printed with autogr. notes)
/554 Ibid., diary 1971 (printed with autogr. notes)
/555 Ibid., diary 1972 (printed with autogr. notes)
/556 Ibid., diary 1973 (printed with autogr. notes)
/557 Ibid., ibid. (printed with autogr. notes)
/2/558 Ibid., diary 1974 (printed with autogr. notes)
/559 Ibid., diary 1975 (printed with autogr. notes)
.1 [Inserted in diary] – business card of Theodore Roosevelt IV (printed)
/560 WBF, diary 1976 (printed with autogr. notes)
/561 Ibid., diary 1977 (printed with autogr. notes)
/562 Ibid., diary 1978 (printed with autogr. notes)
/563 Ibid., diary 1980 (printed with autogr. notes)
.1 [Inserted in diary] – note regarding the ordination of Alfred Newman Gilbey (printed slip)
.2 [Inserted in diary] – business card of Edwin E. Simmons (printed)
.3 [Inserted in diary] – Hermione [Waterfield], notes on her whereabouts in the United States (autogr.)
/564 WBF, diary 1981 (printed with autogr. notes)
.1 [Inserted in diary] – ‘Hip Exercises’ (tp. with autogr. additions)
/565 WBF, diary Sept 1981-Dec. 1982 (printed with autogr. notes)
.1 [Inserted in diary] – note on Jesse Petcoff (autogr.)
.2 [Inserted in diary] – list of various telephone numbers (autogr.)
/566 WBF, diary July 1982-Dec. 1983 (printed with autogr. notes)
/567 Ibid., diary July 1983-Dec. 1984 (printed with autogr. notes)
/568 Ibid., diary July 1985-Dec. 1986 (printed with autogr. notes)
/569 Ibid., diary July 1986-Dec. 1987 (printed with autogr. notes)
/570 Ibid., diary 1987 (printed with autogr. notes)
/2/571 Ibid., diary 1989 (printed with autogr. notes)
.1 [Inserted in diary] – note on telephone number of W. Bennett Ltd. (autogr.)
.2 [Inserted in diary] – note of address of Christies (autogr.)
.3 [Inserted in diary] – note on Michael Pollock (autogr)
/572 WBF, passport issued 8 Aug. 1930
/573 Ibid., passport issued 27 Nov. 1946
/574 Ibid., passport issued 23 Dec. 1966
/575 Ibid., passport issued 23 Dec. 1976
/576 Ibid., passport issued 2 Jan. 1987
/577 Two British Airways International Certificates of Vaccination for WBF, one marked ‘Obsolete’ (printed and autogr.)
/578 International Certificate of Inoculation and Vaccination for WBF (printed and autogr.)
/579 National Health Service medical card for WBF (printed and autogr.)
/580 Christie’s Security Pass for WBF (laminated badge)
/581 Name badge for WBF for 8th National Conference, US National Commission for UNESCO, 22-26 Oct. 1961 (printed)
/582 Name badge for WBF for ASA Conference, nd
/583 ‘The New Sunday Missal’ (printed book in a box)
/584 ‘A Simple Prayer Book’ (printed booklet)
/585 Webster [Plass] to [MWP?], nd – on travel arrangements in South America; on the pieces which H. has; on the photos he sent Heyhe; has copied the following numbers; lists artefacts with numbers; on Harvey and Joann; on working hours. 4 pages (autogr.; some torn off)
/586 Children’s story ‘Joe, Jack, and John’.34 pages (homemade booklet, autogr.) [note attached states that this is the work of Edward and Ned Kerry]
/2/587 Four postcards of works exhibited at the Museum of African Art, Washington DC (printed)
/588 The Arts Council of Great Britain, nd – notice of an exhibition of works by Carl Fredrik Hill (printed card)
/589 ICA, nd – invitation to the private view of an exhibition of Shona Sculptors of Rhodesia (printed card)
/590 ICA, nd – information sheet about Shona Sculptors of Rhodesia (printed)
/591 ICA, nd – programme of events associated with the exhibition of Shona Sculpture (tp.)
/592 David [Boston] to WBF, nd – sends photographs he mentioned; has not yet managed to get them on approval; can make an offer of about £200; on the pieces; may ring for his advice (autogr.) [phot. 115766]
/593 Map of Sibasa District, with note ‘To be attached to Blacking’s paper June 1962’
/594 WBF, nd – notes on the relative size of items in an issue of Man (autogr.)
/595 Figure 1 for Hocking’s paper in Man (autogr.)
/596 Figure 1 for Tildesley’s paper in Man (autogr.)
/597 Figure 2 for Tildesley’s paper in Man (autogr.)
/598 Sketch Map of the Ancient Sites of the Tanganyika Coast (autogr.)
/599 1957[?] – Diagram of Chitumwa (tp.)
/600 Drawing of Egyptian Ceiling Decoration (autogr.)
/601 Dr W.G.N.Van der Sleen, drawings of beads (autogr.)
.1 Business cards for Dr W.G.N. van der Sleen. 2 leaves (printed; one with autogr. note)
.2 Ibid. for Dr en Meur. van der Sleen Van Wessem (printed)
/602 Plate A for Man, Jan./Feb. 1947 (printed)
/603 Figures 1-8 for Underwood [article in Man?] 8 leaves (printed)
/2/604 Illustrations of objects. 2 leaves (printed)
.1 Note from Charles Hill-Tout (autogr.)
/605 Figures 1, 2 & 3 for Reay paper. 3 leaves (printed)
/606 Figures 1 & 2 for McLaren paper (autogr.)
/607 Illustrations for Chaplin paper (transparency)
/608 Illustrations for figures 1, 2 and 3 for Harding paper. 3 leaves (printed)
/609 Figure 1 for Otterbein paper (printed)
/610 Figure 1 for Uchendu paper (printed)
/611 Margret Bennet-Clark/Carey, nd – list of place names (autogr.)
/612 Figures 1 & 2 for Palmer paper. 2 leaves (printed)
/613 Map of Wandamba etc. (printed)
/614 Drawing headed ‘British Guiana’ (printed card)
/615 Drawings relating to carts from England, Scotland, Eire and Wales, and Norfolk Wagons. 6 leaves (printed)
/616 Note with the title ‘Notes on Items of Maori Manufacture’ by W.J. Phillipps of New Zealand [no text] (autogr.)
/617 Two illustrations of objects. 2 leaves (printed)
/618 Nine illustrations for a paper[?] with autogr. notes by JLM. 9 leaves (printed)
/619 Proof of ‘The Hand Bolt’ by M.D.W. Jeffreys, Man Sept./Oct. 1965 (printed with autogr. corrections)
/620 Figures 1, 2 & 3 for Jeffreys’ note. 3 leaves (printed)
/621 Proof of ‘A Note on Stone Built Enclosures in South Nyanza, Kenya’ by Neville Chittick, Man 1965 (printed with autogr. additions by WBF)
/622 Figures 1, 2, 3 & 4 for Chittick’s paper. 4 leaves (printed)
/623 Maps showing routes of invasions into Sierra Leone in c. 1400, c. 1600 and c. 1800. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/624 Notes headed ‘Maesen’ (autogr.)
/2/625 ‘Paleolithic Implements from the Rub’ al Khali’ by Henry Field. 4 leaves (tp. with autogr. corrections)
/626 Proof of ‘Paleolithic Implements from the Rub’ al Khali’ by Henry Field (printed with autogr. corrections)
/627 Proof of ‘Le Bâton de Commandement’ by Leon Underwood. 3 leaves (printed with autogr. corrections)
/628 Captions for ‘Le Bâton de Commandement’ (tp. with autogr. additions)
/629 Figures 1-5 for ‘Le Bâton de Commandement’. 5 leaves (printed)
/630 Figure 1, ‘Cores’ and figure 4, ‘Borers’. 2 leaves (printed)
/631 Figure 6, ‘Composite Sections of the Narbada, the Godavari-Pravara and the Kishna-Ghataprabha-Malaprabha’ (printed)
/632 Drawing of ‘Barratauwoi Kanyiatingo’ (autogr.)
/633 ‘Section across the River Narbada opposite Sahasradhara’ (printed)
/633a Map of the Tanganyika coast line (printed)
/633b Map to illustrate Evans-Pritchard paper in Man (printed)
/634 Figure 1, ‘The Spatial Distribution of Nsirimo Lineage Structure’ (printed and tp.)
/635 Illustrations of objects. 2 leaves (printed?)
/636 Illustration for paper by Tindale, ‘Elements in the design of a Trobriand shield’ (printed)
/637 Plate C for Man, Feb. 1958, Part I, ‘The Western Asiatic Six-Piece Arrowhead Mould’ and Part III, ‘The Celtic Two-Piece Axehead Mould’. 2 leaves (printed illustrations with autogr. text added by WBF)
/638 ‘L’Afrique d’après Ptolémée (vers + 141 J.C.)’, map with text in French by R. Mauny, 21 Nov. 1945 (autogr.)
/639 Illustration of an artefact (carved ivory?) (photocopy)
/640 [WBF], nd – Opinion on an Ashanti gold mask, the property of the White Fathers, Rotterdam (tpc.)
/2/641 Description of a Dan wood shrine and cover (tp. with autogr. notes by WBF, mentioning Dr Eberhard Fischer)
/642 Index card referring to a cement sculpture in Benin City (tp.)
/643 Godelieve Van Geertruyen, ‘Le Style Nimba’. 18 leaves (photocopy)
/644 WBF, nd – notes on artefacts (autogr.)
/645 Homemade booklet with drawings of objects (autogr.)
.1 Drawings of objects (autogr.; inserted in booklet)
/646 Flyer for a sale of primitive art at the Palais d’Orsay (printed, in French)
/647 List of items included in the sale (tp., in French)
/648 WBF, nd – note of artefacts (autogr.)
/649 List of references headed ‘Baule Numbers’ (autogr.)
/650 List of artefacts (autogr.)
/651 Brigitte [Menzel] to WBF, nd – asks about the origin of a piece of cloth; as her ‘opus’ is under print already asks that he reply to her letter (autogr. note)
/652 […?] to WBF, nd – notes on the Mayo-Johnson Collection (autogr.)
/653 Illustrations of an artefact (photocopy)
/654 WBF, nd – ‘Pieces to be photographed at the Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde’ (autogr.)
/655 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts (autogr.)
/656 Ibid., ibid. – lists of artefacts. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/657 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts (autogr.)
/658 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts headed ‘4 Masters’ (autogr.)
/659 ‘Four Yoruba Masters – Adugbologe, Arowogun, Agbonbiofe and Olowe’. 3 leaves (newspaper cutting)
/660 WBF, nd – lists of artefacts with notes. 4 pages (autogr.)
/2/661 Ibid., nd – list of books on African art (autogr. note)
/662 Ibid., ibid. – notes headed ‘African Art and Life Force’. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/663 K. Krieger, ‘Das Schicksal der Benin-Sammlung des Berliner Museums für Völkerkunde’ (offprint, in German)
/664 WBF, nd – list of artefacts headed ‘Benin ivory’ (autogr.)
/665 List of artefacts headed ‘Photos needed’ (autogr.)
/666 WBF, nd – list of artefacts headed ‘W. Afr. Ivories Negs for possible use for L’Œil (autogr.)
[No number 667]
/668 WBF, nd – notes on an object, headed ‘James Fitzpatrick’ (autogr.)
/669 Ibid., ibid. – note concerning an early Benin bronze head (Le Carré specimen) (autogr. draft)
/670 Illustration of a headdress mask (printed with autogr. notes)
/671 Philip J.C. Dark, ‘Benin Bronze Heads: Styles and Chronology’. 43 leaves (photocopy)
/672 Plates. 18 leaves (photocopy)
.1 Note referring to ‘African Images, Essays in African Iconology’ (photocopy; possibly relates to /2/672)
/673 Museum labels. 3 leaves (tp. card)
/674 Illustration (photocopy)
/675 Illustration of necklet, plus notes. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/676 WBF, nd – text on a Benin aquamanile in the form of a leopard. 2 leaves (autogr. draft)
/677 Ibid., ibid. – brief note on a Benin figure (autogr.)
/678 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts headed ‘V.L.’ [Von Luschan?] (autogr.)
/679 Ibid., ibid. – list of artefacts headed ‘Possible Casts for Nigerian Govt.’ (autogr.)
/2/680 Ibid., nd – list of plaques headed ‘Benin Cast order for Nigeria’ (autogr.)
/681 Flora S. Kaplan, ‘Of Symbols and Civilizations’. 4 leaves (printed proof with autogr. corrections) [see ‘Images of Power – Art of the Royal Court of Benin’, pp. 77-79, and MS 501/20/31-36]
/682 ‘Notes left to Susan Vogel on 28.10.1984’. 2 leaves (tp. with autogr. corrections)
/683 [WBF], page proofs of ‘Divine Kingship in Africa’. 62 leaves (printed with autogr. corrections)
/684 Frank Willett, ‘New Light on the Ife-Benin Relationship’. 7 leaves (photocopy; from African Forum, Vol. 3, No. 4 & Vol. 4, No. 1, 1968)
/685 Brief note on a ram’s head (autogr.)
/686 WBF, nd – note on a collection of Bembe wood carvings for the Bwami society (tp.)
/687 Werner [Muensterberger] to WBF, nd [1975] – glad WBF is back; is off for the US on Thursday; mentions Stoner and Paul Tishman; is sorry about the ewer[?} (autogr. pc)
/688 WBF, nd – list of places with dates (autogr.)
/689 Ibid., ibid. – scrappy note headed ‘Detroit Collects African Art’ (autogr.)
/690 List of things to do[?] (autogr.)
/691 […?], ‘Quelques masques de danse des Bakouele’. 6 leaves (tp., in French) [phot. 115767-115772]
/692 WBF, nd – text on Sir Hans Sloane and other collectors. 2 leaves (autogr. draft)
/693 André Simon Wines Ltd. to WBF, nd – invoice (printed and autogr.)
/694 Flyer for the Africa Centre, coming events July/Aug. 1975 (printed)
/695 Flyer for an exhibition of African Arts at the Africa Centre (printed)
/696 Roger de la Burde to WBF, nd – was passing through and hoped to have lunch with him but he was absent; is sorry to have missed him (autogr.)
/2/697 WBF, nd – list of artefacts with places (autogr.)
/698 Brochure for ‘The Language of African Art’, an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, 24 May-7 Sept. 1970 (printed)
/3 Business cards etc.
[See also MS 497, MS 498, MS 499, MS 500, MS 501 & MS 503, passim]
/1 Business card for Arthur W. Cookson (printed and autogr.)
/2 Ibid. for W.C.J. Froehlich (printed)
/3 Ibid. for Avelino Teixeira da Mota (printed)
/4 Ibid. for Philippe de Salverte-Marmier (printed with autogr. message)
/5 Ibid. for William Bascom (printed and autogr.)
/6 Ibid. for F.L. Kenett (printed; dated 17 Oct. 1957)
/7 Ibid. for Moss Bros. (printed and autogr.)
/8 Business cards for José Henrique Santos David. 2 leaves (printed, one with autogr. message, dated Christmas 1957-58)
/9 Business card for Charles Ratton (printed with autogr. message about ‘On the Nature of African Art’, in French)
/10 Ibid. for John Robinson (printed)
/11 Ibid. for Igor Kopytoff (printed with autogr. note by Margret Bennet-Clark/Carey)
/12 Ibid. for Dr Herta Blaha (printed)
/13 Ibid. for Bo G. Wennberg (printed)
/14 Ibid. for Phillip H. Lewis (printed)
/15 Ibid. for Andrew Dakers Ltd. (printed)
/16 Ibid. for Theodore Holcomb (printed)
/17 Ibid. for Major J.L Mackinnon-Little (printed and autogr.)
/18 Ibid. for Dr Guy Atkins (printed with autogr. message)
/3/19 Ibid. for Rev. J.F. Butler (printed)
/20 Ibid. for Prince John Loewenstein (printed and autogr.)
/21 Business cards for Carl F. Duerr. 2 leaves (printed, with different autogr. notes)
/22 Business card for Arnold Newman (printed)
/23 Ibid. for Richard H. Gump (printed)
/24 Ibid. for Luc de Heusch (printed)
/25 Business cards for Michael Teague. 2 leaves (printed, with different autogr. information)
/26 Business card for Maurice F. Lavanoux (printed)
/27 Ibid. for Dr Frederic Engel (printed)
/28 Ibid. for Dr Andreas M. Kronenberg (printed)
/29 Ibid. for Georges Henri Riviere (printed with autogr. message to Mme Simone le Bonami de Bastard Hautefort, in French)
/30 Ibid. for Miss Janet Stone (printed and autogr.)
/31 Ibid. for Hélène-Henri Kamer (printed with autogr. message)
/32 Ibid. for A. Schwarz (printed)
/33 Ibid. for Th. Verwilghen (printed, in French)
/34 Ibid. for Le Père Patrick O’Reilly (printed with autogr. message, in French)
/35 Ibid. for Hugh Tracey (printed and autogr.)
/36 Ibid. for Heidi Heimann (printed and autogr.)
/37 Ibid. for Dr W. Korabiewicz (printed and autogr.)
/37a Note of the name and address of Nad. Waclaw Korabiewicz (tp.)
/38 Ibid. for Élysée Palace Hotel (printed, in French)
/39 Business cards for William H. Newell. 2 leaves (printed; one with autogr. note)
/3/40 Business card for Carl Gösta Widstrand (printed and autogr.)
/41 Ibid. for A.D. Tushingham, Royal Ontario Museum (printed)
/42 Ibid. for Mrs J. Henry Scattergood, Brueckner Museum (printed)
/43 Ibid. for C.G. Feilberg, University of Copenhagen (printed and autogr.)
/44 Ibid., for R.J.C. Hoeppli, the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine (printed)
/45 Ibid. for Sylvie Nickels (printed with autogr. message)
/46 Ibid. for Dr Karl Gustav Izikowitz, Ethnographical Museum, Göteborg (printed)
/47 Ibid. for Sister M. Inez Hilger (printed)
/48 Ibid. for A.A. Gerbrands (printed with autogr. message for Mr Digby or WBF)
/49 Ibid. for Rémy Bastien, Embassy of Haïti (printed, in French)
/50 Ibid. for Oscar Meyer (printed and autogr., in French)
/51 Ibid. for Professor dr. G. Lindblom (printed with autogr. message)
/52 Ibid. for Gösta Moberg (printed)
/53 Ibid. for J.S.K. Frimpong (printed and autogr.)
/54 Ibid. for Robert A. Lystad (printed)
/55 Ibid. for Mrs Margaret T.J. Rowe, Yale University Art Gallery (printed)
/56 Ibid. for Dr Phil. Dr Med. Hans Himmelheber (printed and autogr.)
/57 Ibid. for Thomas P. Thayer (printed)
/58 Ibid. for Ernst Kofler-Truniger (printed and autogr.)
/59 Ibid. for Captain R. Stuart Murray (printed)
/60 Business cards for Frederick Rhodes Pleasants. 2 leaves (printed)
/3/61 Ibid. for Mrs E.T. Imrie (printed with autogr. notes; dated 5 Jan. 1938)
/62 Ibid. for Mr A.E. Harwich, Uganda Police (printed)
/63 Ibid. for Johannes Itten, Zurich (printed)
/64 Ibid. for Philippe Marçais (printed, in French)
/65 Ibid. for Peggy Lajuan Pulliam (printed with autogr. message for WBF)
/66 Ibid. for Hubert C. Engert (printed)
/67 Ibid. for Dr French Robert Moore (printed with autogr. message for WBF)
/67a Note about reprints for R. Adm. F.R. Moore (autogr.)
/68 Business card for M.L.J. Lemaire (printed)
/69 Ibid. for Dennis J. Duncanson (printed)
/70 Ibid. for Henry de Laszlo (printed)
/71 Ibid. for Philipp B. Mayer (printed and autogr.)
/72 Ibid. for F.W. Ashton & Co. Ltd. (printed)
/73 Ibid. for Albany Galleries (printed)
/74 Ibid. for Jean-Paul Lebeuf (printed)
/75 Ibid. for Leonhard Adam (printed)
/76 Ibid. for Major Rev. Philip A. Wright (printed)
/77 Ibid. for Major Stanley (printed)
/78 Business cards for Prince Peter of Greece, Prince of Denmark. 2 leaves (printed with different autogr. messages)
/79 Business card for Gustave Schindler (printed and autogr.)
/80 Ibid. for Olof Skantze (printed)
/81 Ibid. for Mr Roger H. Aston (printed)
/82 Ibid. for Alfred Bühler (printed with autogr. message for WBF)
/3/83 Note of the name and address of K.J. Hewett; [on verso:] note about the Burlington Magazine (autogr.)
/84 Note of the name and address of L.S. Ward (autogr.)
[No number 85]
/86 Note of the name and address of A.F. Thompson (autogr. card)
/87 Note of the name and address of M.D.W. Jeffreys (stamped; dated 14 Dec. 1953)
/88 Note of the name and address of Mrs Roger McCollester (autogr.)
/89 Note of the name and address of A. Lopashich (autogr.)
/90 Note of the name and address of [Eric] Lanning (autogr.)
/91 Note of the name and address of G.B. Harrison (autogr.)
/92 Note of the name and address of F. Friedlein & Co. (autogr.)
/93 Note of the name and telephone number of Timothy Green (autogr.)
/94 Note of the name and address of P. Morton Williams (autogr.)
/95 Note of the name and address of Miss Harding (autogr.)
/96 Note of the name and address of Miss J.R. Harding (autogr.)
[No number 97]
/98 Note of the name and address of W.R.G. Horton (autogr.)
/99 Note of Firth’s name and address (autogr.)
/100 Note of the name and address of Mrs Mackay (autogr.)
/101 Note of the name and address of Ewan Phillips (autogr.)
/102 Note of the name and address of W.A. Sanderson (autogr.)
/103 Note of Devenish’s name and address (autogr.)
/104 Note of the name and address of E.A. Wainwright (autogr.)
/105 Note about E.B. Ceadel (autogr.)
/3/106 Note of the name and address of Roland Jones (autogr.)
/107 Note of the name and address of Dr Moses Osamu Baba (autogr.)
/108 Note of the name and address of Dr Wolf (tp. and printed)
/109 Note of the name and address of Mme Forani (autogr.)
/110 Notes of the name and address of Dr Fouks. 2 leaves (tp. and autogr., with messages for WBF, one in French)
/111 Compliments slip for Dr Mourant (printed)
/112 Ibid. for Dr E.G. Parrinder (printed with autogr. note)
/113 Ibid. for Douglas Newton (printed and autogr.)
/114 Ibid. for the Rev. Dr. J.W. Parkes (printed)
/115 Ibid. for Dr Kenneth Little (printed with autogr. note, dated 23 July 1962)
/116 Ibid. for Optical Equipment Company (printed)
/117 Ibid. for Dr. E.W. Smith (printed)
/118 Telephone message for WBF to ring Mr Stevenson (autogr. note)
/119 Ibid. for WBF to ring Ruth Lynam (autogr. note)
/120 Ibid. for WBF to ring Mrs Betty Assheton (autogr. note)
/121 Ibid. for WBF to ring Barbara Jones (autogr. note)
/122 Cards from the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, each containing ethnographic information about an artefact, including origin, name, description etc., numbered 1-345. 346 leaves [there is a no. 10 bis] (printed and autogr., in French)
/123 Index cards, with a wrapper [not retained] suggesting they may be connected with the Plass Collection donated to the BM; each card contains a category of goldweight with references, in MWP’s hand. 152 leaves (autogr.) [see MS 499/16/18 for charts classifying goldweights]
/124 Small museum labels, possibly from an exhibition, with a wrapper [not retained] suggesting a date in the late 1940s. 31 leaves (tp. cards)
/3/125 Museum labels, possibly from an exhibition, with a wrapper [not retained] suggesting a date in the late 1940s. 20 leaves (tp. cards)
/4 1937-58 Ethel John Lindgren Papers
[See also MS 497, MS 498, MS 499 & MS 501, passim]
/1 Audrey Richards to EJL, 3 Feb. 1937 – on Culture-Contact and Language in Africa; extract from her letter (tp. with autogr. note by EJL)
.1 EJL to [WBF?], nd – asks him to file /4/1 if he thinks it of interest; on moving her flat (autogr. note)
/2 EJL to J.H. Fraser, Kodak Ltd., 1 Feb. 1939 – refers to his letter of 31 Jan. [not held]; on a discount he suggested; she suggests she open an account; gives references (tpc.)
/3 J.H. Fraser to EJL, 2 Feb. – refers to her letter of 1 Feb. [/4/2]; proposes to send his representative Mr Powls to call on her before she opens an account; it might be simpler for her to deal with the firm through the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (tp.)
/4 The Times, 3 Feb. – ‘The French in Africa’, review of ‘Africans Learn to be French’ by W. Bryant Mumford (newspaper cutting)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – note on Mumford (autogr.)
/5 J.H. Fraser to EJL, 8 Feb. – refers to correspondence between them on the subject of a discount; refers to her letter of 13 Jan. [not held]; was not aware that the work was carried out for her personal use; under these circumstances it is difficult for him to allow the discount; is awaiting a report from Mr Powls who will soon be calling on her (tp.)
/6 Ibid., 17 Feb. – refers to her letter of 12 Feb. [not held]; notes that she has decided to meet the cost of the invoice; as Mr Powls has already called, sees no reason why he should call a second time (tp. with autogr. notes)
/7 Miss E. Vernon-Jones for EJL to Messrs Kodak Ltd., ibid. – EJL wishes to pay the discount which was allowed in error; on her return from abroad she will communicate on the matter (tpc.)
/4/8 EJL to WBF, 2 Dec. 1939 – on having lunch with him (autogr. pc)
/9 Evening Standard 16 Dec. – cartoon ‘Night Shift at the Ministry of Information’ (newspaper cutting)
/10 EJL, Christmas card 1939 (printed)
/11 WBF to EJL, 16 June 1940 – addresses her as ‘Cassandra’; on not understanding each other; on the matter of the Phlegm; on being loth to destroy her letters; their content remains in his memory; on his sense of humour; on his prospects; was told that the Colonial Office was out of the question; most likely were the Admiralty and Supply of Labour Ministries; on terms of employment; on the difficulty of carrying on the Secretaryship [of the RAI] under these terms; on Hawkes taking over; mentions R.B.; on an RAI Council meeting; on his mother’s illness; on a new recruit to the JC, Prof. S. Zuckerman; on type for the JRAI and Man[?]; mentions JLM and Braunholtz; has told Miss M. that the Journal will be dispatched from Birmingham; on Wilsher; on selling stamps to Morant; on a phone call in the middle of the night. 14 pages (autogr.)
/12 Ibid., 21 June – addresses her as ‘Ethel John’; on Cassandra (autogr. draft; incomplete?)
/13 Ibid., 30 June – on meeting her to discuss things; will not have any time after Council; his mother is better now; on R.B,’s address; mentions Hugh Miller and Capt. Fuller; on R.B.’s brother; on references which he found in the BM; on the suspension of the activities of the HALC; asks her what she thinks about Ordinary Meetings next session; the Executive has to be elected on Tuesday; Canada is the place for the overseas journal; asks how copies would be distributed to the British Isles in the event of an invasion; on type. 4 pages (autogr.)
/14 EJL to WBF, 29 Jan. 1942 – congratulates him on having acquired a sister-in-law; on his nascent ‘Blue Beardism’; he cannot plead that she has read indiscreet bits out of his letters (autogr.)
/15 16 Nov. – list of addresses in the USA for Sir Frederick Whyte [Chairman, Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom] (tp. and autogr.)
/16 1943[?] – text on a number of propositions which constitute the essence of Conservatism. 2 leaves (tp., incomplete)
/4/17 EJL to WBF, 1 Apr. 1943 – shall shortly be reviewing her will; there is a clause allocating her scientific and personal papers to someone who will sort them and edit them if suitable; those she chose in 1939 now unsuitable; asks if she could put his name first on the list; has confidence in his caution (autogr.)
/18 T.E. U[tley] to EJL, 15 June – suggests that WBF read Hansard on Non-Intervention in Spain; on the Labour Party; on exponents of ‘Fabian’ views; allows that the phrase ‘critical response’ in his note was unfortunate; on the Catering Wages Bill (tp.)
/19 EJL to WBF, 16 June – they are well launched; should enjoy interchanges; she is taking a week’s leave; suggests lunch after that (autogr. note)
/20 Ibid., 28 July – refers to his letter and note [see MS 497/3/84]; is passing them to Utley who is going to Cambridge; on Utley discussing the subject with WBF; on her own opinions; on Raglan. 4 leaves (autogr.)
/21 Ibid., 31 July – on Stonier’s friend; on T.E. U[tley]. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/22 WBF, 1 Aug. – ‘On the misuse of the word “Fascism”’. 4 pages (autogr.)
/23 Ibid., ibid. – ibid. 6 pages (autogr. draft)
/24 EJL to WBF, 31 July & 2 Aug. – on JLM’s ‘Nomadism’; would appreciate copies of Huxley’s for advertisement purposes; on R.B.’s Presidential [Address?]; mentions Utley; asks him to dinner (autogr.)
/25 Ibid., 3 Aug. – refers to his letter [see MS 497/3/86]; mentions Utley’s friend F[ei]lden the ‘Tory Moses’; mentions F[ie]lden’s ‘Conservative Faith’ speech (autogr. note)
/26 Ibid., 4 Aug. – refers to his letter [see MS 497/3/87]; cannot do Tuesday but Monday engagement will stand (autogr. note)
/27 T.E. U[tley] to EJL, 9 Aug. – sends ‘Fagg on Fascism’ [/4/22]; mentions F[ei]lden’s note; refers to WBF writing pompous memoranda on the misuse of words; discusses Fascism; hopes he can count on her presence in the gallery at his Union debate. 3 pages (tp.)
/28 R.R. Feilden, nd – text on Fascism. 8 pages (autogr.)
/4/29 EJL to [WBF], 10 Aug. 1943 – on F[ei]lden, the ‘Tory Moses’; asks him to return enclosures (autogr. note)
/30 Sunday Dispatch, 22 Aug. – ‘The Anti-Nazi Mask’ and other articles (newspaper page)
/31 EJL to Georgia […?], 28 Aug. – makes some points on the subject of her letters to the Times; on the trial of war criminals; on public opinion; on Germany; on Russia. 3 leaves (tp.)
/32 T.E. U[tley] to EJL, 20 Sept. – on Crisp and Vansittart (tp.)
/33 21 Sept. – comments by F. and D. on ‘The Scientist in Soviet Society’ by M. Ruheman. 4 leaves (tp.)
/34 EJL to [WBF], 14 Oct. – on a political testament (autogr. note)
/35 T.E. U[tley] to EJL, 21 Oct. – on an assistant who is a Communist; will keep a watch on future developments (tp.)
/36 Ibid., 26 Oct. – sends report of a talk he gave; on the discussion which followed; on Russia; on the problem of privileged stupidity. 2 leaves (tp.; leaf 2 missing)
/37 Ibid., 29 Oct. – on his speech; on the Prime Minister; on scholar-statesmen; on efficiency (tp.)
/38 EJL to [WBF?], 2 Nov. – on returning a letter (autogr. note)
/39 Ibid. to Prof. Jan Hulewicz, 18 Jan. 1944 – on the Czaplicka MSS; quotes from a letter from Prof. Lowie; ibid., 5 Sept. – on a visit to the United States, cleared up the question of the Czaplicka MSS; outlines the situation; the MSS will be retrieved and kept in a safe place. 2 leaves (tp.)
/40 T.E. Utley, ‘French Views on the German Problem’, reprinted from the Apr. 1944 issue of International Affairs (offprint)
/41 List of articles by Prof. Gustav Cassel in Skandinaviska Banken, Apr., July & Oct. 1944 (tp.)
/4/42 C.H. Armitage, Wm. Eyres & Sons Ltd., to EJL, 10 May 1945 – returns the books on Scandinavia; is producing a series of dressing gowns, pram rugs etc. decorated with motifs; sends a sample; asks if she knows an artist who could produce designs suitable for Scandinavian children (tp.)
/43 EJL to WBF, 18 May – thinks he will be interested in the enclosed letter and her reply; mentions their Dutch friend (tp. with autogr. PS)
/44 Ibid. to C.H. Armitage, 19 May – refers to his letter [/4/42]; was interested to see the pram cover he sent as an example of his products; suggests the names of some artists who might be able to help him; on the high-grade products of the Swedish textile industry; there would be hope of British products competing on the ground of design; the pattern on the sample he sent would not appeal to a high-grade customer in Scandinavia; is not familiar with the arrangements made in Sweden to introduce ‘art into industry’; trusts he will not feel she has gone too far in answering his letter frankly (tp.)
/45 25 Aug. – notes on C.H. de Goeje by A. Muhlenfeld, sent to EJL (tp.)
/46 A.S. Duncan Jones to the Editor of the Manchester Guardian, 4 Oct. – letter on the Russian situation; mentions Lord Russell (tp.)
/47 14 Nov. – ‘Royal Medal for Atom Scientist’ (newspaper cutting)
/48 Acting Secretary, Senate-House Syndicate, University of Cambridge, to WBF, 27 Nov. – neither General Eisenhower nor Field Marshal Montgomery will be present for the conferment of their honorary degrees (tp. with autogr. note by WBF)
/49 University of Cambridge, programme for a Congregation to be held on 29 Nov. to confer honorary degrees (printed)
/50 WBF, nd – translation of part of a Latin text included in /4/49 (autogr.)
/51 Signe Lavén to WBF, 6 Dec. – encloses the programme from the honorary degrees [/4/49]; thanks him for securing good seats; was sorry to miss Eisenhower and Montgomery; enjoyed his visit; wishes she could understand the Latin; asks if he would translate it (autogr.)
/4/51a Ibid., nd – thanks him for the tickets; asks him not to send the translation [/4/50] but to ‘say’ it when he comes; hopes his mother is better; on EJL going to Sweden; hopes he is not working too hard; alludes to the death of Muhlenfeld (autogr.)
/52 Extract from a letter from A. Muhlenfeld to EJL, 2 Dec. 1945 – on Mr Gobee who has left for London to take over Prof. Schrieke’s task; suggests she try to get in touch with him; on Baronen Asbeck (tp.)
/53 29 Jan. 1946 – compliments slip from EJL (tp.)
/54 Harry Haig, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 28 Mar. – notice of a talk by EJL on ‘Some Post-War Trends in Sweden’ on 11 Apr. (tp.)
/55 ‘Letter from distinguished Academic Figure, aged about 75’, (G.J. Ramstedt), to [EJL?], 30 Mar. – on receiving a vest with sleeves from her; his wife wants him to write and express her thanks; on selling land; on the weather (tp.)
/56 WBF to [EJL], 13 May – mentions the closing of Cracow University following riots; Prof. S. leaves England tomorrow; wanted to make sure he saw the reports before leaving; Prof. S. has not been very discreet (autogr. note)
/57 Louisa K. Campbell to WBF, 16 June – as EJL was in London, she accompanied Miss Lavén to the Senate House; lists the recipients of the honorary degrees; on Lord Louis; it is May Week; on the weather. 4 pages (autogr.)
/58 Manchester Guardian, 19 June – ‘A Bread Pledge’ (newspaper cutting)
/59 WBF, 20 June – on Miss Weltfish [see /4/58] (autogr.)
/60 Anglo-Swedish Society, notice of a talk by EJL on ‘The Rescue of Allied Refugees along the Jokkmokk Border, 1942-1945’ on 25 June (printed card)
/61 EJL to WBF, nd – on a trip in Sweden (autogr. pc)
/61a [EJL], nd – details of a trip in Denmark and Sweden, 1946 (tp. with autogr. notes)
/62 Signe Lavén to ibid., 7 Oct. – understands he is coming to Cambridge; invites him to stay; on his rations; on the weather (autogr.)
/4/63 Mona [Signe Lavén] to ibid., c. 15 Nov. 1946 – on his letter; thanks him for the book (autogr. with autogr. note by EJL)
/64 EJL to H.W. Pointer, 6 Dec. – refers to his letter to Sir Ellis Minns [not held]; suggests he investigate the Russian language material in the Library of the School of Oriental Studies and the London Library; names some people in Sweden and Finland to whom he could write; would be interested in the conclusions of his research on the Yukaghir language (tp. with autogr. addition)
/65 Gerda M. Krautter to EJL, 17 Dec. – refers to EJL’s letter of 30 Nov. [not held]; she charges her with not having sent the resume of the manuscript; it was sent; gives Eva Lovendal’s address; on the manuscript and attempts to get it published; on the weather and shortages; on a trip to the Black Forest; discusses her husband; on her work as a translator (tp. with autogr. addition by EJL)
/66 Institute of Sociology, programme of events 1947. 2 leaves (tp.)
/67 Manchester Guardian, 6 Aug. 1947 (newspaper)
/68 Ibid., 7 Aug. (newspaper)
/69 Ibid., 8 Aug. (newspaper)
/70 Ibid., 9 Aug. (newspaper)
/71 F.A. Miller to EJL, 1 Jan. 1947 – asks her to excuse typing but he is in the Buro of the Social Democratic Party; on his work as a translator; discusses young Pop; asks about Mizzi; has been writing stories but there is a paper shortage (tp. with autogr. note)
/72 Mikel Utsi, 15 June – ‘Conditions for an Experiment’ concerning reindeer (tpc.)
/73 EJL to Prof. James Gray, Zoological Department, Cambridge, 19 Jan. 1948 – encloses copy of letter which WBF sent to the Society’s Secretary on 17 May [not held]; gives the gist of the reply; on a visit made to the deer by Mr Utsi; on the condition of the deer; on Mr Utsi’s emergency suggestions; her own feeling is that the animals should be moved to Whipsnade; will be in the Arctic from 24 Jan. until Apr. (tpc.)
/4/74 Dr G.M. Vevers, Superintendent, Zoological Society of London, to ibid., 27 Jan. 1948 – refers to his letter of 19 Jan. [not held]; on the proper diet for reindeer; on sending a pair of reindeer from London Zoo to Whipsnade; on the pair; Mr Utsi should be informed that the reindeer would not do well on grass such as the antelope paddock or at Whipsnade (tp. copy)
/75 [unsigned], Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, to EJL, 29 Jan. – refers to her letter of 19 Jan. [/4/73]; Prof. Gray has asked that the reply from the Zoological Society [/4/74] be forwarded to her (tp. copy)
/76 L.K. Campbell to WBF, 2 Feb. – EJL requested that she send the enclosed prints (autogr.) [phot. 115773-115776]
/77 EJL to ibid., 16 July 1949 – has written to Izikowitz to expect a letter from WBF; is sending an extra copy of the blurb (autogr. pc)
/78 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, First Annual Report, 1949-1950 (printed)
/79 EJL to WBF, 1 May 1950 – thanks him for his suggestion regarding Prof. W.C. Osman Hill; suggests he mention it to Sir Frederick at the Anniversary meeting of the Reindeer Council on 10 June (autogr.)
/80 Le Play House Bulletin, Nov. 1950 (tp.)
/81 Sir Frederick Whyte to WBF, 20 Dec. – on the 5th meeting of the Reindeer Council on 13 Jan. 1951; hopes he will be able to come; mentions things which will be discusses (tp.)
[No numbers 82-85]
/86 WBF to the Editor of a newspaper, 25 Dec. – on Dr Huxley; on religion and science (autogr. draft)
/87 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Second Annual Report 1950-51 (printed)
/88 9 Jan. 1951 – Agenda for the Fifth Meeting of the Reindeer Council, to be held on 13 Jan. (tpc.)
/89 Minutes of the Fifth Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 13 Jan. 7 pages (tp.)
/4/90 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 13 Jan. 1951 – Press Release concerning the Winter Number of Zoo Life which contains an article on Reindeer by Edmund Roberts, with special reference to the work of the Reindeer Council (tp.)
.1 Zoo Life, Winter 1950 (printed magazine)
/91 Sir Frederick Whyte to WBF, 23 Feb. – shall not summon him before EJL leaves for Sweden in Mar.; shall make an approach to the Secretary of State; on the Reindeer Exhibition (tp.)
/92 EJL to Members of the Reindeer Council, 1 Mar. – on a favourable reply to the proposal put forward by the Reindeer Council that Reindeer should be imported into Scotland; on an emergency meeting of the Council on 6 Mar. (tpc.)
/93 Minutes of the Emergency Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 6 Mar. 12 pages (tp.)
/94 Notes outlining details of the ‘Reindeer Experiment’. 7 leaves (tpc.)
/95 Invitation to a Reindeer Exhibition to be held on 8 Mar. (tp.)
/96 D.S. Reid, the Scottish Council (Development and Industry), to EJL, 1 May – refers to previous correspondence [not held]; on conditions relating to the reindeer (tp.)
/97 9 May – Agenda for the Sixth Meeting of the Reindeer Council, to be held on 17 May (tpc.)
/98 17 May – list of Members of the Reindeer Council (tp.)
/99 Sir Frederick Whyte to the Secretary, the Scottish Council (Development and Industry), 17 May – on the authorization for the importation of 25 reindeer into Scotland; a basis now exists on which preparation for the experiment can proceed; on finding a suitable site; on observations which the Council wishes to record (tpc. draft)
/100 18 May – Press Release regarding the importation of 25 reindeer into Scotland; the Council resolved that a basis exists on which preparation can proceed (tpc.)
/101 Minutes of the Seventh Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 14 July. 8 pages (tp.)
/4/102 EJL to [WBF], 17 July 1951 – on R.A. Haldane being a Fellow of the RAI; he was interested that WBF was a Member [of the Reindeer Council] (autogr. note)
/103 Ibid., 21 July – refers to Neave’s reply to his letter of 17 May 1947; cannot find it; would be grateful if he would look for it (autogr.)
/104 Sir Frederick Whyte to WBF, 27 July – sends a postcard of a picture of reindeer swimming in a river; it is from Lascaux; for his reindeer file (tp. pc)
/105 J. Alden Mason, UM, to EJL, 9 Aug. – refers to her letter of 26 July [not held]; is glad to give her information regarding the work here; names the members of staff; on a trip to Mexico (tp. copy)
/106 15 Aug. – notice that the next meeting of the Reindeer Council will be on 20 Oct. (tp.)
/107 Le Play House Bulletin, Sept. 1951 (tp.)
/108 S.A. Neave, Zoological Society of London, to WBF, 30 May 1947 – refers to WBF’s letters of 17 & 28 May [not held] on Mr Utsi’s observations of the maintenance of reindeer; on the keeping of reindeer in captivity (tp.)
.1 1 Sept. 1951 – note that the letter is sent at EJL’s request (tp. card)
/109 Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Reindeer Company Limited, Incorporated 12 Feb. 1952 (printed booklet; water damaged)
/110 A.F. Whyte, 15 Dec. 1952 – on a resolution of the Council concerning the co-ordination of publicity regarding the reindeer experiment (tp.)
/111 WBF to EJL, 30 Dec. – on RAI matters; on Alfred Stonier; if she knows Adrian Edwards he would be interested in any comments (autogr.) [see MS 497/11/298]
/112 Mikel Utsi, c. 1952 – review of ‘Reindeer Are Wild Too’ by Joan Newhouse (printed)
/113 Anecdote about A.C. Haddon and his daughter Kathleen Haddon Rishbeth, concerning her showing string figures to warriors; extract from a letter from Mrs Kathleen Rishbeth to EJL, 10 Mar. 1953, concerning the story (tp.)
/4/114 EJL to WBF, 4 Apr. 1953 – asks that the ‘enclosed’ find a home; thanks him for his letter; on her plans for Easter; asks if she can count on him for Council meeting; Sir F.’s [Sir Frederick Whyte] office is moving (autogr.)
/115 Bowes & Bowes (Cambridge) Ltd. to EJL, 11 Apr. – cannot send Mead’s ‘Soviet Attitudes Towards Authority’ as it cannot be imported into England (autogr. and printed card)
.1 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on reviewers for ‘this’ [Mead’s book?] (autogr. note)
/116 EJL to {WBF?], 16 May – on the birth of a reindeer calf (autogr. card)
/117 Ibid., ibid. – on Kolasz and Stahl; on reviews of their work (autogr.)
/118 Ibid., 23 May – on T.E. U[tley]; on making a move in that direction; on Reindeer Council business; on Child; on China; gives the reason why she cannot stand apart in this atmosphere; on having lunch with him; asks him to destroy the letter. 4 pages (autogr.)
/119 Ibid., 3 June – mentions T.E. U[tley] and Louis Clarke; U. had called with his fiancée (autogr. card)
/120 Ibid., ibid. – on the Coronation (autogr.)
/121 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Minutes of the Fourth Annual Meeting, 17 July (tp.)
/122 EJL to Lilian Fagg, 3 Aug. – on a dinner at the Royal Central Asian [Society]; on a picture; on three pieces of news which she might share with WBF: on the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; on John getting a job in East Africa; and on her two Finns; asks her not to hyphenate ‘Ethel John’ (autogr.)
/123 Ibid. to [WBF?], 27 Oct. – on Honorary Fellowships [of the RAI]; would like to propose Prof. Sigurd Erixon; on Åke Campbell (autogr.)
/124 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom – Fifth Annual Report 1953-1954 (printed booklet, marked ‘Proof’)
/125 Ibid. – ibid. [not identical] (printed booklet)
/126 M[anchester] G[uardian,‘Reform in Head and Members?’ and ‘Chatham House’, 1954[?] 3 leaves (newspaper cutting)
/4/126.1 EJL to WBF, nd – note about dating ‘these’ (autogr.)
/127 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom – Fifth Annual Report 1953-1954. 14 pages (tp.)
/128 [EJL] to WBF, 1954[?] – on the RAI rolling off Minutes for the Reindeer Council on its Gestetner, provided it does not incur costs; was going to ask if this could be arranged (tp. copy and autogr.)
/129 Ibid., ibid. – on the course to be taken if the Chairman were to resign; it would not be proper or necessary for the remaining officers to appoint an acting Chairman; mentions the RAI; asks if he has anything to confirm or add (tp. copy and autogr.)
/130 EJL to WBF, 2 Apr. 1954 – is delighted with his views on the lady authoress; on her information; she knows Fenner Brockway; she has a gift for making herself ‘current’; on Ms Carmichael (autogr.)
/131 The Scotsman, 28 Apr. – ‘Reindeer in Scotland’ (newspaper cutting)
/132 Ibid., 30 Apr. – ‘Reindeer in their new Reserve’ (newspaper cutting)
/133 The Bulletin, ibid. – ‘Reindeer Cargo for Scotland’ (newspaper cutting)
/134 EJL to WBF, ibid. – on his getting her a sleeper; the crisis is partly under control; mentions Brotherston; on the reindeer[?]; on a voyage; on a dinner she arranged for the captain and others (autogr.)
/135 Ibid., 1 May – asks if he paid for the sleeper (autogr. note)
/136 Ibid., 14 June – Agenda for the Fifteenth Meeting of the Reindeer Council to be held on 25 June (tp.)
/137 EJL to [WBF?], 17 June [as per postmark] – on Goswami; it was kind of WBF to think of him; she has replied to his office (autogr.)
/138 Ibid., ibid. – on Reindeer Council business (autogr.)
/139 Ibid., ibid. – on the meetings on 25 June; on arrangements for tea and for a projector (autogr.)
/140 […?] to ibid., nd – asks him to do certain things at the Reindeer Council meeting (autogr. note)
/4/141 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 19 June 1954 – Minutes of the Fourteenth Meeting of the Reindeer Council held on 15 Jan. 1954. 13 pages (tp.)
/142 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 20 June – Report by Honorary Treasurer for the period 1 July 1953-20 June 1954 (tp.)
/143 Ibid., 21 June – note to Members of Council (tp.)
/144 G.H.S. B[ushnell] to [EJL?], 24 June – on her request for comments on the report; makes some points about it (tp. copy of pc, with autogr. note by EJL)
/145 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – notice of the Annual General Meeting to be held on 25 June (tp.)
/146 Minutes of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 25 June (tp.)
/147 Ian Whitaker, [School of Scottish Studies], University of Edinburgh, to WBF, 26 June – ‘Touché!’ (autogr. pc with autogr. note by WBF [to EJL]
/148 EJL to WBF, 29 June – on an article about reindeer; encloses Curriculum Vitae for Miss Gee [not held]; mentions Whitaker; on WBF’s splendid finale in Man 1954. 3 pages (autogr.)
.1 Ibid., nd – on hearing from Erman (autogr. note)
/149 EJL to WBF, 3 July – on the Reindeer Council Annual Report; on Bushnell’s comment on it [/4/144]; asks for WBF’s opinions; on readers (autogr.)
/150 Ibid. to Miss Naomi Walford, 19 July – refers to her letter of 13 July [not held]; thanks her for the copy of ‘The Way of the Four Winds’; thanks her for thanking her in print; on reviews of the book; will ask the Hon. Secretary of the RAI whether the Institute has received a review copy; several members of her household have read the book with pleasure (tp. with autogr. note to WBF attached)
/151 Ibid. to [WBF?], 20 July – on Bancroft; mentions McAleavy; on Ukraine[?]; mentions Walter Kolanz (autogr.)
/152 Ibid. to WBF, 30 Oct. – on Reindeer Council business (autogr.)
/4/153 [Nov. 1954] – Flyer for the Winston Churchill 80th Birthday Presentation Fund (printed with autogr. note by EJL)
/154 Brotherston & Bee to WBF – 15 Nov. – on shares in the Reindeer Company Ltd.; ask him if he wishes to take up additional shares (tp.)
/155 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 17 Nov. – Agenda for the Sixteenth Meeting to be held on 26 Nov. (tp.)
/156 The Observer, 21 Nov. – profile of Sir Andrew Cohen (newspaper cutting)
/157 Ibid., 24 Nov. – Minutes of the Fifteenth Meeting. 12 pages (tp.)
/158 EJL to WBF, 13 Dec. – encloses a letter which he can show to Woledge and possibly Wilson and Firth; he need not show it to fellow-officers; on Woledge; tells him to ask him about finance; she could meet for tea on Friday (autogr.)
/159 Life International, ibid. – ‘Onuoha and the Good People’. 4 leaves (magazine pages/cuttings)
/160 EJL to WBF, 14 Dec. – for a period she represented the RAI on the Consultative Committee which sponsored the Register of Research in the Social Sciences in Progress and in Plan; the Register is produced at a loss; asks if he would care to explore alternative possibilities for funding; suggests he consult Mr G. Woledge at LSE; some way should be found of maintaining this valuable record; is concerned that there should be no gap [in production] (tp.)
/161 Ibid., 29 Dec. – thanks him for the magnificent present; mentions his house move; on an article in the Times on the ‘Reindeer Experiment’ (autogr.)
/162 Ibid., ibid. – invites him to lunch; she is also inviting Mrs Dorothea Farquarharson (autogr.)
/163 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Sixth Annual Report 1954-1955 (printed)
/164 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom – account of the Reindeer Experiment by the Forester, Glenmore, reproduced from the Slasher: Forestry Commission News, Jan. 1955 (tp.)
/4/165 BJK to EJL, 6 Jan. 1955 – asks for suggestions for reviewers of ‘Science and Civilisation in China’ by Joseph Needham (tp. with autogr. notes by EJL suggesting reviewers)
/166 […?], Editorial Board, LSE, to [EJL?], 7 Jan. – encloses copy of ‘Changing Lapps’ by Gutorm Gjessing, for review (tp. with autogr. note)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – on anonymity of the Editorial Board; asks if BJK knows who they are (autogr. note)
/167 Jack Trevor to EJL, 10 Jan. – refers to her letter [not held]; knows she will be more than welcome as a member; on Minns’ ‘Introductory Lecture’; on Mrs Mynors; will write to Oakley (autogr. pc)
/168 EJL to WBF, ibid. – will be in hospital for two nights; Mikel has applied for British nationality; he would need WBF’s support if anything happened to her; Mrs Carmichael and Mrs Smith are to have no hand in clearing up her affairs; Mrs Shaw is her best friend in this country (autogr.)
/169 Ibid., 15 Jan. – on his ringing the hospital; on a liquidation meeting of the Inst. of Soc.; on the Eastern Counties Folk-Lore Society; mentions Trevor (autogr.)
/170 Ibid. to Jack Trevor, ibid. – on Sir Ellis Minns’ ‘Introductory Lecture’; on Mrs Mynors who is Marianne Minns by birth; she [EJL] has received the posthumous MS, the Introductory Lecture and some bibliographical material; on Mikel going North; if they do not go to Sweden again, hopes they can all meet (tp.)
/171 Chicago Daily News, 13 Jan. – ‘N.U. Gets Grant for Africa Study’ (newspaper cutting)
.1 EJL to WBF, 18 Jan. – suggests he put ‘this’ in Man (autogr. card)
/172 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 20 Jan. – note on the Distribution of the Fifth Annual Report (tp.)
/173 Geoffrey [Bushnell] to EJL, 24 Jan. – thanks her for letting him see the note to Penniman [not held]; on calling stags and elks with the instrument; is going to Tobago (autogr.)
/174 EJL to WBF, 25 Jan. – she and M. are going abroad; he might ring or see them off (autogr.)
/4/175 Ibid., 31 Jan. 1955 – Dr Ursula Rexed informed her that Miss Lavén had died; she told her she would fly back and make no attempt to attend the funeral of Miss Kitty Lavén; Mikel has too much to do [in Sweden?] to fly home; he had drafted a telegram to WBF asking him to represent him at the funeral; has switched it to Louis Clarke; on the funeral. 2 leaves (autogr. with note on envelope)
/176 Ibid., nd – on the funeral; Louis Clarke has agreed to represent Mikel (autogr. note)
/177 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 10 Feb. – Notice to Members (tp.)
/178 EJL to WBF, 11 Feb. – missed him at Miss Lavén’s funeral; thanks him for letter of condolence [see MS 498/5/36]; thanks him for courtesy towards Miss Lavén all these years; refer to the catastrophe which changed Miss Lavén’s life; on Miss Lavén’s will; refers to the death of Miss Kitty Lavén; it is unknown whether Annesley House will be put up for sale; on the Reindeer Co. office and her own flat; the contents of Sunbourn have been left to her; on her principle of returning gifts to Miss Lavén to their donors; WBF gave her a Chinese print; asks if he would like to have it in memory of Miss Lavén; Dr Rexed has not asked for the picture. 4 pages (autogr.)
/179 Ibid., ibid. – encloses letter from Hermanns [not held]; cannot review his book; has given BJK her suggestions; on her health (autogr.)
/180 Cambridge Daily News, 18 Feb. – ‘Pioneer of Physiotherapy in Cambridge’, appreciation of Miss Laven (newspaper cutting)
/181 EJL to WBF, ibid. – refers to his letter [MS 498/5/52]; shall be delighted to present him with the Chinese scene; mentions a book; asks him to let her know if he thinks any of the enclosed deserves a mention in the Times or elsewhere; is rather shaky but expects to lecture in Oxford on Tuesday (autogr.)
/182 Aberdeen Press and Journal, 8 Mar. – ‘They Are at Home in the Snow’ (newspaper cutting)
/183 EJL to WBF, 9 Mar. – she and Mikel are driving up to give Sir F. lunch; on WBF’s picture; invites him to have tea with her (autogr.)
/184 Ibid., 14 Mar. – on the picture, which is marked with his name (autogr. pc)
/4/185 Ibid., 16 Mar. 1955 – is delighted that he approves of the framing of the Chinese picture; she is willing to stand for nomination to the RAI; on Miss Caton Thompson going to Sicily (tp.)
/186 Ibid., 25 Mar. – Mikel leaves on 9 Apr. (autogr. card)
/187 Ibid. to Members of the Reindeer Council, 25 Apr. – on the import of bulls (tpc.)
/188 Ibid. to WBF, 7 May – ‘this’ [/4/187] sent to him was returned due to a faulty address; Mikel is nursing a reindeer after a Caesarean birth of a dead calf; he is awaiting one or two live calves; asks about dates at the RAI for the Reindeer Council and Reindeer Company AGM (autogr.)
/189 D.S. Kettle & M.N.P. Utsi, ‘Hypoderma Diana (Diptera, Oestridae) and Lipoptera Cervi (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) as Parasites of Reindeer (Rangifer Tarandus) in Scotland with Notes on the Second-Stage Larva of Hypoderma Diana’, in Parasitology, Vol. 45, Nos. 1 & 2 (May 1955) (offprint)
/190 EJL to Feodora Stone, the National Institute of Economical and Social Research, 7 June – congratulates her on the response to her appeal for funds; hopes to be of more use to her in the future (tpc.)
.1 Ibid. to WBF[?], nd – Mrs Stone has been in hospital (autogr. note)
/191 9 July – Agenda for the Seventeenth Meeting of the Reindeer Council and for the Annual General Meeting, to be held on 22 July. 2 leaves (tp.)
/192 14 July – Minutes of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 26 Nov. 1954. 8 pages (tp.)
/193 20 July – The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Sixth Annual Report, 1954-1955. 13 pages (tp.)
/194 21 July – The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Statement of Accounts for the period 20 June 1954-30 June 1955 (tp.)
/195 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – Minutes of the Sixth Annual Meeting held on 22 July (tp.)
/4/196 EJL to WBF, 27 July 1955 – on a day in Oxford with Mrs Ettlinger; on Mrs Ettlinger’s activities; on an interesting session she had with E-P; he was concerned to know who she saw in Cambridge; he had no use for Leach’s and Firth’s new books; on submitting a paper to the JRAI; mentions Paine and R.B.; he will buy Lappish books for their library; mentions Daniel; relates further details of the conversation; the main object of the letter was to convey E-P’s view of the editorship of the JRAI; discusses this; he drew the conclusion that Cranstone ought to be the next editor. 6 pages (autogr.; page[s] missing?]
/197 Ibid., 2 Aug. – on Hultkrantz; mentions Trevor; on the editorship of the JRAI[?] 5 pages (autogr.)
/198 Ibid., ibid. – was delighted by is summary of ‘E.-P. to date’; on his Third Programme lectures; on Kluckhohn’s book (autogr.)
/199 Ibid. to Dr Åke Hultkrantz, 8 Aug. – refers to his letter of 27 July [not held]; on her treatment of his text; regarding his references, no further changes in system will be made; asks for any alterations to text and references (tpc.)
/200 Ibid. to WBF, ibid. – on her letter to Hultkrantz [/4/199]; discusses the editorship; shall be thinking of him and his mother during the second half of Aug.; on the death of Miss Campbell (autogr.)
/201 Ibid. to Sir Frederick Whyte, 28 Aug. – encloses a copy of the letter [not held] Major Niall Macpherson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, wrote to her after a visit made by him and others on 24 Aug.; gives details of the visit (tpc.)
/202 post-Oct. – Mr J. Grant Roger, Principal Scientific Officer at the Edinburgh Headquarters of the Nature Conservancy, on the plants preferred by reindeer (tp. note)
/203 EJL to WBF, 18 Oct. – on her correspondence with Hultkrantz; appeasement will pay dividends; he is visiting Great Britain at Christmas; asks WBF to invite him to speak to the RAI; refers to a letter to Dr Layton[?] (autogr.)
/204 Ibid., 28 Oct. – on Davies (autogr.)
/205 Ibid., 31 Oct. – on the Minutes; makes a suggestion concerning the lack of new material for Man; on coming up to London for various reasons (autogr.)
/4/206 Ibid., 7 Nov. 1955 – on a date for a Reindeer Council meeting (autogr. card)
/207 Ibid. to Members of the Reindeer Council, 8 Nov. – notice that the Eighteenth Meeting has been postponed until 20 Jan. 1956 (tp.)
/208 Ibid. to WBF, 9 Nov. – will be at Andrew’s on Friday; on proofs; on a review of Leach; asks him to tell her clearly what he means by preferring that no polemic be developed (autogr.)
/209 ‘Summary of Report to the Meeting of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology [University of Cambridge], on November 21, 1955’. 3 leaves (tp.)
/210 W. Brotherston, N.A.C. Croft, L.C.G. Clarke & M.N.P. Utsi to Sir Frederick Whyte, 3 Dec. – as Directors of the Reindeer Company they face urgent decisions on the future of the experiment; outline the issues involved; on issuing shares to finance the operation; quotes from the Secretary of State’s announcement in Parliament (tp. copy)
.1 9 Dec. – on the dates on which the letter was signed (tp. note)
/211 John Applebey, ‘The Heroic Ideal’, review of ‘The Ultimate Viking’ by Eric Linklater (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL concerning a review)
/212 Prof. Margaret Read, University College, Ibadan, to EJL, 27 Dec. – on being in hospital; on going to Nigeria; is now at Ibadan; on her work; discusses Nigeria; mentions BEBF and Kenneth Murray; looks forward to hearing her news in June[?] (autogr.)
/213 The Times, 29 Dec. – notice of the death of Dr Kionji Kiyono (newspaper cutting)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – on an obituary notice of Dr Kiyono (autogr. note)
/214 EJL to WBF, 30 Dec. – considers him at risk if he admits to publishing articles in Man subsequently to the printed date of publication; refers to herself doing the same with the JRAI; suggests he have an answer ready if this is raised; discusses Mary Thatcher; refers to a review by Gluckman in Man[?] 5 pages (autogr.)
/215 Entries from ‘Who’s Who’, 1956, for Hugh Cudlipp, Percy Cudlipp and Reginald Cudlipp (tp.)
/4/215.1 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on confusion of two of the Cudlipp brothers (autogr. note)
/216 Ibid. to Ian R. Whitaker, 2 Jan. 1956 – congratulates him on his marriage; thanks him for the reprint of Robert Pehrson’s paper on ‘The Lappish Herding Leader’ from the A.A.; on the posthumous publication of Robert Pehrson’s work (tpc.)
/217 Ibid. to WBF, 7 Jan. – mentions GCT; mentions JCT and Hultkrantz; mentions [RAI] Council (autogr. note)
/218 Ibid., 10 Jan. – on a reprint of ‘Were Animals First Domesticated and Bred in India’ by Hermanns; asks him about a review (autogr. card)
/219 Ibid., 12 Jan. – notice of the postponement for a few weeks of the Reindeer Council meeting scheduled for 20 Jan. (tp.)
/220 Ibid., 14 Jan. – on cancelling a room booking at the RAI; asks for a firm date for his return from USA; encloses a letter [not held] on RAI business for him to glance through before giving to Miss Anderson (autogr.)
/221 EJL to WBF, 25 Jan. – on the Reindeer Council; is in bed ill; on Mrs Smith; is waiting to hear when WBF will return from the US; asks about his address while there; wants these by 31 Jan.; she and M. are redrafting their Wills to make provision for the Reindeer organisations; is adding a second literary executor T.E.A.; describes him; on RAI matters; he can mention a short visit to hospital; on GCT; would appreciate an account of what took place on Council. 4 pages (autogr.)
/222 The Reindeer Company Ltd., balance sheet as at 29 Feb. 2 leaves (mimeo)
/223 Minutes of General Meeting of Shareholders of the Reindeer Company held on 6 Apr. 4 pages (tp.)
/224 J.A. Dickson, Conservator, (North) Scotland, to Mikel Utsi, 18 Apr. – on the terms and conditions for allowing grazing for reindeer in Queens Forest (tp. copy)
/225 4 May – Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 6 Apr. 18 pages (tp.)
/226 ‘Reindeer in the Scottish Highlands’, reproduced from ‘The Veterinary Record’, 68, 278 (12 May 1956) (offprint)
/4/227 EJL, 1 June 1956 – notice that the Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Reindeer Company Ltd. will be held on 20 July. 5 leaves (mimeo)
.1 EJL to [WBF?], 14 June – on Sir F.’s presidency of the meeting; asks if he is free on 20 or 27 July (autogr. card)
/228 EJL, 18 June – notice that the Nineteenth Council Meeting and Annual General Meeting have been postponed to 27 July; on calving (tp.)
/229 EJL to W. Brotherston, 21 June – refers to his letters [not held]; has distributed the sixth report; has redrafted the Minutes of a discussion at the shareholders’ meeting on 6 Apr.; encloses a copy of the new pages; discusses the views of various people; if she does not hear anything, the revised Minutes will be distributed; on going into hospital for a small operation (tpc.)
.1 Ibid. to WBF, nd – hopes this is satisfactory; is sorry to miss the Garden Party (autogr note)
/230 21 June – Draft Minutes of the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Reindeer Co. Ltd, 6 Apr. (tpc.; incomplete)
/231 EJL to WBF, 27 June – is in a nursing home until Saturday; on her operation; on the next meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd. on 20 July at the RAI; hopes he can spare time for this ceremony[?]; was sorry to miss the Garden Party (autogr.)
/232 Bernadette Follish[?] to EJL, 6 July – was delighted to get her copy of the Reindeer report; mentions Camilla Roatta; refers to her ‘uninteresting’ job; mentions Peter; on Mary Tew, now Douglas (tp.)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – asks him to return the letter; someone has a book coming out and is writing another; he left the Spectator (autogr. note)
/233 Ibid., 7 July – on the meeting on 20 July; is relieved that he can come; on having lunch with him; is better since the op; on Poppe (autogr.)
/4/234 Ibid. to MWS, 7 July 1956 – on Mrs J.E. van Lohuizen who has beautiful coloured film strips of religious buildings in Afghanistan, Sind and India; is keen that she should show this material in London; she would also make an excellent reviewer for Man; on her husband; she would give a popular lecture; asks if she has retrieved her letter on the ethnographic film committee (tp.)
/235 13 July – Agenda for the Nineteenth Meeting of the Reindeer Council and for the Annual General Meeting. 2 leaves (tp.)
/236 EJL to WBF, 19 July – on the Reindeer Company AGM; encloses two-thirds of the Minutes (autogr.)
/237 Minute of Fourth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Reindeer Company Ltd., held on 20 July. 3 pages (tp.)
/238 Mikel Utsi to William Brotherston, 23 July – refers to his letter of 19 July [not held]; on documents she is sending to him; encloses some notes sent by Robert Park about his career; hopes he will support her in proposing Park for the Reindeer Council; he met EJL and some friends and they were all impressed by him; on the need for new blood (tpc.)
/239 Extract from a letter from Robert Barton Park to EJL, giving details of his biography and career (tpc.)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – Mikel would like his view of Park (autogr. note)
/240 24 July – The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Statement of Accounts for year to 30 June 1956 (tp.)
/241 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – Minutes of the Seventh Annual Meeting held on 27 July (tp.)
/242 Ibid., Minutes of the Nineteenth Meeting held on 27 July. 11 pages (tp.)
/243 Ibid., Minutes of the Nineteenth Meeting, Appendices. 2 leaves (tp.)
/4/244 EJL to WBF, 30 July 1956 – refers to his note [not held]; on Louis Clarke; on a letter he signed to Sir Frederick [Whyte]; it will be distributed for comments; it is important to have WBF’s opinions; she wrote the letter between 11 pm and 2 am the morning of the meeting; on such continuous nocturnal programmes; on WBF writing a draft letter if he has time; shall probably travel north on 17 Aug.; Mikel will go to Sweden in Sept.; on Mikel’s mother; she ought to go with him; on Mikel’s family[?] 3 pages (autogr.)
/245 3 Aug. – on a Resolution passed at the Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd., regarding shares (printed and tp.)
/246 Brotherston & Bee to WBF, 6 Aug. – on shares in the Reindeer Company Ltd.; asks if he would like to apply for any additional shares (tp.)
/247 EJL, ibid. – on the proposed letter to the Department of Agriculture for Scotland on the Assets, Achievements and Future of the Experiment (tp.)
/248 William Brotherston, Mikel Utsi, Louis C.G. Clarke & Andrew Croft to Sir Frederick Whyte, 27 July – on a review of the Reindeer Experiment in Scotland 1952-56; discuss assets, achievements and prospects; make a request. 4 pages (tp. draft)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – a roneo of the letter will go to Members in two days; asks if he has any suggestions; asks about the Board of Trade (autogr. note)
/249 EJL to ibid., 28 Aug. – has written to his mother asking about his health; Mrs Ettlinger said she had not heard from him; she has put off her journey to East Berlin (autogr.)
/250 [EJL] to Dr John Hammond, School of Agriculture, Cambridge, 1 Sept. – thanks him for the articles on sheep and cattle which he sent; asks him to let her know if he is interested in the reindeer experiment; mentions WBF (tpc.)
/251 William Brotherston, Brotherston & Bee, to WBF, 4 Sept. – refers to WBF’s letter [not held]; on his buying of additional shares in the Reindeer Company Ltd. (tp.)
/252 Oskar Loorits, Uppsala, 24 Sept. – text in German headed ‘Pro Domu’, about Prof. Dr W. Steinitz. 3 leaves (tp.)
/4/253 EJL to WBF, 29 Sept. 1956 – refers to his letter [not held]; his list of postponed tasks rivals hers; on reindeer shares; on having lunch with him before Council; on Miss Doris Russell (autogr.)
/254 Ibid., 2 Oct. – she and Miss Russell will be delighted to have lunch with him; on Jack; he was horrified at the lengths to which the minx has gone (autogr.)
/255 Ibid., 4 Oct. – on the ethnographic film committee; she wrote to MWS about this; MWS sent the letter to Dr Stenning; asked MWS to get it back; suggests WBF write to Stenning asking for the return of all correspondence; if her own letter was marked ‘personal’ she would like it back (autogr. note)
/256 BJK to WBF, 5 Oct. – on Miss Norah Gourlie who is interested in the Lapps; she asked if WBF would like a note on a congress on the Lapps in Karasjok in Aug.; BJK said she would let her know; asked her if she knew EJL (tp. with autogr. note from WBF to EJL)
/257 William Brotherston to WBF, 8 Oct. – on his subscription to the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/258 EJL to Miss Norah Gourlie, 15 Oct. – was interested to hear of her presence at the Karasjok congress last Aug.; mentions Mr H.B. Ely and Ruth Herron who also attended; is sorry that she has never attended one of these gatherings; an account of the congress would be of value to the RAI; WBF will be glad to receive a MS on the subject; mentions Ian Whitaker (tp.)
/259 Ibid. to WBF, 18 Oct. – on Donald Thomson; on RAI records; on dates when she will be away; mentions Jack and his finances; on his plan to bring up one or more little girls; since she first met him, he has appeared ‘over-sexed’ (autogr.)
/260 Mikel Utsi, William Brotherston, Louis C.G. Clarke & Andrew Croft, 18 Oct. – review of the Reindeer Experiment in Scotland, 1952-56; on assets, achievements and prospects; make a request. 4 pages (tp.)
/4/261 EJL to WBF, 21 Oct. 1956 – refers to his letter of some weeks back; was distressed to hear of his financial worries; on Mikel giving up his subscription to Man; if/when the Govt.[?] approves reindeer they will be giving up some publications; on her pension and other financial matters; on the Sunbourn Annexe; launching the Reindeer Co. Ltd. on money-making activities is of urgency; on Mrs Corkhill[?]; she wrote to Mrs Anderson (autogr.)
/262 Ibid., 23 Oct. – writes concerning J.; Rome would be a great help but he is going C of E; on his attempts to adopt a child; she is ill-fitted to intervene; outlines two courses of action; he will hate one or all of those concerned but will get over it; he should never touch editing again; she writes with knowledge of his editorial […?]; meeting on 1 Nov. will be impossible for her and from the JCT point of view; the Reindeer Co. letter of 18 Oct. is enclosed; it has been revised; hopes to do a first draft of Sir F.’s letter to Niall Macpherson; Sir F. is giving a silver cigarette box to Mrs Smith; mentions sleeping pills and ‘the Scots’ medicine’; he was playing a deep[?] game; has not seen the reindeer since 1953; on Lord Sempill who might consent to take over as Chairman of the Anglo-Swedish Council. 3 pages (autogr.)
/263 BJK to WBF, 25 Oct. – sends bit from the Times about Prof. Fortes; explains why she was dubious about Fortes’ resignation; on tributes to Michael Ventris (tp. note)
.1 The Times, 19 Oct. – reference to resignation of Prof. Fortes (newspaper cutting)
/264 EJL to WBF, 26 Oct. – on the Faculty; there was an agreement that the Chairmanship should rotate every 5 years; on SF’s cerebral haemorrhage; daughter broke her leg last summer; they were in the process of moving (autogr.)
/265 30 & 31 Oct. – copies of letters to Mr Niall Macpherson, Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr R.G.C. Nisbet, Department of Agriculture for Scotland, & Mr W.S. Robertson, Secretary, Scottish Council (Development and Industry. 3 pages (tp. copy)
.1 EJL to [WBF?] – they hope to be away 20 Nov.- 10 Dec. (autogr. note)
/4/266 EJL to WBF, 31 Oct. [1956?] – on an attempted reconciliation between J. and T.; told him that his confidences would be forgotten; would rather have him with T. than with a series of little girls (autogr. card)
/267 Ibid., ibid. – on JRAI and Hultkrantz; encloses copy of her letter to Mr Huntingford; asks WBF to explain to him her status qua Editor of the Lapp Research Series (tp.)
/268 Ibid., 3 Nov. – Mikel felt it was no time for British subjects to disagree[?]; they were only pursuing minor property-interests; on the Swedish Travel Bureau; on Niall Macpherson’s reply to Sir Frederick’s letter (autogr.)
/269 Ibid., 14 Nov. – on Mrs Ettlinger and Loorits’ statement [/4/252]; Fortes is sailing for South Africa; mentions Bullivant and Dickins; has asked GCT to complete her set of Council and Executive Minutes; will put her 1935-55 series in a top bedroom at Moormore Cottage (autogr.)
/270 [Gertrude] Caton [Thompson] to EJL, 17 Nov. – her inquiry about RAI Council Minutes is 3 months too late; when clearing papers prior to moving, RAI ‘went west’; had she still been on the Council she would have kept them (autogr.)
/271 EJL to WBF, 21 Nov. – on crossing the Great Belt; pointed out the restaurant at which they sat together; has been imbibing wisdom from friends; he has often been mentioned (autogr. pc, also signed by Mikel Utsi, and Gudmund & Emilie Demant Hatt)
/272 EJL, 13 Dec. – notice that the reply by Mr Niall Macpherson to the Chairman’s letter of 30 Oct. is reproduced below; Niall Macpherson to Sir Frederick Whyte, 29 Nov. – on reindeer breeding in Scotland; refers to seeing the herd last year; on the evidence available reindeer can be successfully bred; they have not been a source of danger or harm; in view of the small number of reindeer he would not undertake to promote new legislation to bring reindeer within the scope of relevant acts (tp.)
/273 The Scotsman, 26 Dec. – ‘On the Cairngorm Reserve’ (newspaper cutting)
/274 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Seventh Annual Report 1955-1956. 17 pages (tp., marked ‘Incomplete’)
/4/274.1 EJL to WBF, nd – raises a query relating to p. 16 of /4/274 (autogr. note)
/275 EJL to [WBF?], 10 Jan. 1957 – on JCT [Jack Trevor]; mentions Fulbourn; if he gets anything out of Tildesley asks that he let her know; mentions RAI; discusses de Beaugé; refers to a ‘peeping Tom’ story; mentions Sir F.’s letter in the Spectator; Mikel declined to review W.’s book; W. [Whitaker?] was her old pupil; Paine told her that Vorren was critical of the book; he was hoping Paine would improve the English; he [Vorren] has now started on Man and on her; on not contributing to the Campbell Festschrift; explains the reasons why; mentions Peterson; on work which she owes WBF (autogr.)
/276 Ibid., 23 Jan. – encloses a volume of Arctic; would like it back immediately as she and Mikel may have to go to the Canadian Arctic and he is going through the literature; the review of W.’s book has long been with Vorren; he was hoping Paine would ‘English’ it for him but Miss Bennet Clark could do this more quickly (tp.)
/277 Ibid., ibid. – on W[hitaker]; is sending the review; discusses it; discusses the gambit of showing how G. misquotes himself; his [Whitaker’s?] article in Arctic signifies almost nothing; discusses how to deal with his work in the future; Mikel and Vorren both think the book bad; mentions Gjessing; discusses the phrase ‘taken wrongly up’ in Swedish[?]; Manker used it when he made an attack on her in a book published in 1941; outlines the context of the phrase being used (autogr.)
/278 Ibid., 29 Jan. – on WBF’s remarks on W[hitaker] (autogr.)
/279 Ibid., 30 Jan. – on Man reviews; concerning Bee and Eurasian Archaeology book; she wrote to BJK if not to WBF about Carter’s book on Eurasian archaeology; suggested it should be obtained and Bee should review it; she sent a brief query, with enclosed result [not held]; he can show it to BJK if suitable; asks if he would lunch with her before next RAI Council; asks him to let her know any JCT news (autogr.)
/280 Ibid., 5 Feb. – she and Mikel are inviting an Italian-German girl to lunch on Thursday; he is welcome to join them; they can tell him about Canada scheme; gives date of Reindeer Council meeting (autogr.)
/281 EJL, 9 Feb. – notice of the Twentieth Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom to be held on 1 Mar.; on items to be discussed (tp.)
/4/282 Copy of letter from EJL to W. Duncan, Department of Agriculture for Scotland, 11 Feb. 1957 – gives news of the Reindeer Reserve; refers to Niall Macpherson’s letter of 29 Nov. [/4/272]; refers to her trip to Canada with Mr Utsi to advise on the reindeer experiment at Aklavik; raises some points arising from Mr Macpherson’s letter; mentions the sole reindeer herder, Charles Ferguson; copy of W. Duncan’s reply, 13 Feb. – on their trip to Canada; on recent Ministerial changes; on the points she raises, confirms her interpretation of his attitude; on Charles Ferguson. 2 leaves (tp.)
/283 EJL to WBF, 12 Feb. – mentions MLT’s letter which she sent to GCT; outlines what she will tell the latter; mentions intimates at Cambridge; mentions T.’s Athens adventure; […?] is curious; she herself will leave the matter; asks him to let her know if he hears anything; on not taking T’s side in the case; discusses Sheddick’s review; mentions Malinowski and Raglan; asks about Slaughter and Frankenberg; on meetings (autogr.)
/284 William Brotherston to ibid., 20 Feb. – encloses certificate for his additional shares in the Reindeer Company (tp.)
.1 Certificate of shares in the Reindeer Company held by WBF (printed and autogr.)
/285 EJL to Dr I. Whitaker de Beaugé, 21 Feb. – refers to his previous letters [not held]; on contact with a journal; the matter only concerns him and the authors of the book reviewed; shall be abroad till May; returns his letter marked MS (tp.)
/286 Agenda for the Twentieth Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, to be held on 1 Mar. 1957 (tp.)
/287 Ibid. to WBF, 24 Feb – refers to his envelope of yesterday [not held]; refers to the Bee letter; on WBF’s analysis of the Macpherson letter; she will try to influence events by writing fictional Minutes of the Directors’ Meeting; cannot accept for lunch; must introduce Park to Sir F. (autogr.)
/288 WBF, 25 Feb. – comments on Mr Macpherson’s letter; it does not seem to have been written by Macpherson himself but by a Civil Servant; discusses particular paragraphs of the letter; refers to legislation (tp. copy)
/289 Ibid.,, ibid. – ibid. (autogr. draft)
/4/290 The Reindeer Company Limited, Balance Sheet as at 28 Feb. 1957 2 leaves (mimeo)
/291 The Reindeer Company of the United Kingdom, Minutes of the Twentieth Meeting held on 1 Mar. 15 pages (tp.)
/292 Ibid., Appendices. 4 leaves (tp.)
/293 William Brotherston to WBF, 7 Mar. – acknowledges receipt of his subscription to the Reindeer Council (tp.)
/294 Flyer advertising books published in spring and summer 1957. 2 leaves (printed)
/295 Oryx, the Journal of the Fauna Preservation Society, Apr., with article ‘The Future of Reindeer in Scotland’ by M.N.P. Utsi, pp. 40-2 (printed booklet)
/296 William Brotherston to WBF, 2 May – cannot find a receipt for the Share Certificate sent to him on 20 Feb. [see /4/284]; asks him to return it or to sign the enclosed duplicate (tp.)
/297 EJL, 10 May – Notice of the Twenty-First Meeting of the Reindeer Council; on her trip to Canada with Mr Utsi; encloses a circular letter on Reindeer Hides (tp.)
/298 23 Feb. 1944 – Circular Letter on Reindeer Hides. 10 pages (tp.)
/299 Brotherston & Bee to WBF, 29 May – on Reindeer Company shares; more have been issued; asks if he would wish to apply; the final allotment of additional shares will be made at the next meeting of the Directors (tp.)
/300 EJL to ibid., 30 May – was worried not to hear from him for so long; she and Mikel are coming to London; she is taking Mrs Beall to a Fawcett Society luncheon; asks if he can meet them for tea; on Gjessing; mentions his feud with Vorren; on Collinder publishing an article in Uppsala which she refused for RAI; on the bibliography; Bo Wickman has agreed to do the missing article for JRAI; there is a lot she wants to talk to him about in the RAI Minutes, and reindeer talk; would love to have a meal with him; will attend RAI Council on Thursday (autogr.)
/4/301 Dr Åke Hultkrantz to EJL, 31 May 1957 – refers to her letter to Dr Wickman [not held]; it is excellent that she has written to him; refers to the article by Collinder; the office of the Journal sent him four copies of his own article; unfortunately did not see her when she returned from northern Sweden; asks him to write next time she is in Sweden; is going to the USA in July; thanks her for her collaboration and editing of his article (tp. copy)
/302 William Brotherston to WF, 14 June – refers to WBF’s letter of 9 June [not held]; mentions that WBF is unable to take up any of the present issue of shares (tp.)
/303 ‘The Future of Reindeer in Scotland’ from Nature, 15 June (tp. copy)
/304 EJL, 5 July – Agenda for Twenty-First Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/305 William Brotherston, 17 July – Statement of Accounts for year ended 30 June (tp.)
/306 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Agenda for the Eighth Annual Meeting to be held on 19 July (tp.)
/307 The Reindeer Company Limited, 24 June – notice of the Fifth Annual General Meeting, to be held on 19 July (mimeo)
/308 Ibid., ibid. – Report by the Directors to the Fifth Annual General Meeting. 4 leaves (mimeo)
/309 27 May – Report of the Auditors to the Members of the Reindeer Company Limited (mimeo)
/310 EJL to WBF, 1 July – on wasting an afternoon waiting to see if he would turn up for tea; Mrs Beale’s notes echo his kindness; Louis Clarke put in another £150; on her accountant; mentions her trip to Canada; has sent […?] as a guinea-pig; on the two key men who might save the reindeer; the deputy minister is first-class; mentions Sir Frederick; hopes he can count on WBF on 19 July; on drafting the Eighth Annual Report; encloses a letter from Caton; lists pieces of work which she owes him. 6 pages (autogr.)
/311 Mikel [Utsi] to ibid., 9 July – invites him to lunch on 19 July; on saving air trip expenses if Mr Brotherston does not attend the meeting; asks if WBF can attend (tp.)
/4/311.1 Ibid., 9 July 1957 – refers to a photograph which should have been enclosed in his letter (autogr. card) [phot. 115777]
/312 EJL to ibid., 13 July – refers to his letter [not held]; on his cough; asks for the name of a pub; will try to get John to bring his fiancée there on 19 July; has asked Kallas, and Andrew and Rosalind Croft to join them for a drink (autogr.)
/313 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Minutes of the Eighth Annual Meeting on 19 July (tp.)
/314 Minutes of the Twenty-First Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, held on 19 July. 14 pages (tp.)
/315 Minute of the Fifth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Reindeer Company Limited, held on 19 July. 3 leaves (tp.)
/316 A. Ernest Glen to EJL, 9 Aug. – refers to her letter of 11 July [not held]; recounts ailments suffered by his family; on Ann’s article on the Reindeer published in Glasgow University Geographical Society’s magazine The Drumlin; is willing to serve on the Council; gives a brief Curriculum Vitae; mentions Mr Utsi (tp. copy)
/317 EJL to WBF, 29 Oct. – on Paine; on attending the Huxley [Lecture] with Mary Ann Nevins; on Åke Campbell; as he was not a Fellow he would not rate an obituary notice; Whitaker might write a review if there is a recent book or article; mentions Vorren’s review of Whitaker; on Kissling’s letter; on the School of Scottish Studies; mentions the RAI meeting on 7 Nov.; outlines how busy she has been at home; asks if there is anything she ought to come to the meeting for; on Bulmer; relates some gossip about Sir Keith Hancock and Barnes; gave Bulmer’s name to MWS; discusses MWS; on a ‘plot’ whereby a new editorial board has been constituted for ‘Study of Society’; other discussion of various people; on the Folk Lore lecture she is giving in Nov. 5 pages (autogr.)
/318 Ibid., 5 Nov. – refers to his letter [not held]; has never read Vorren’s review of Whitaker; has written to Tromsø asking for a spare copy (autogr. note)
/4/319 Ibid., 9 Nov. 1957 – thinks our Princess is safe; on the new President; mentions RF; in 1944 he was invited to EJL’s private review of the US visit at RAI; he protested against such a private discussion meeting; on Man Nov 1957; asks about J. Cunnison; asks about J.A. Pitt-Rivers; mentions Oscar Lewis and William Watson; would like to send a copy of Man to Du Li Chi[?] in Formosa; it ought to be addressed to an Academy of Science; mentions JLM; was glad to read WBF’s footnote on S.C.[?] Mann’s review; on Pehrson; Ralph Bulmer of Clare College will review Pehrson; Audrey Richards has asked them to dine; now that he is no longer Hon. Secretary of the RAI she would be delighted to return her letters if he would care to have them; thought at one time that she should throw away a lot, but found that so much was covered that was not covered elsewhere; has entered in the 1956 version of her will a co-executor of her papers; he would be able to relieve WBF of foreign affairs and arctic stuff in which WBF would have little interest. 6 pages (autogr.)
/320 [EJL?] to [WBF?], 10 Dec. – on Eysenk (tp. note)
/321 EJL to WBF, 11 Dec. – on the Membership Committee of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom; feels that the Committee should have nominations to bring forward; she wrote to Mr Shanks to enquire if he would like to be nominated; quotes from his reply; he would like to become a member but would be an inactive one; in these circumstances she sees no point in proceeding; she and Mr Utsi feel free to nominate Mr A.J. MacLennan; the other candidate is Mr A. Ernest Glen; his qualifications are covered in his letter of 9 Aug. [/4/316]; he formally asked to join the Council in Aug. 1955; at that time there was ‘no vacancy’; gives details about Mr Glen; gives details about [his daughter] Ann Glen; would be grateful for WBF’s views on these nominations. 2 leaves (tp.)
/322 Ibid., 27 Dec. – she forwarded his card [not held] to Mikel in Scotland; Mikel advised her to proceed with Glen and MacLennan; has written to Glen but not yet to MacLennan (autogr. note)
/323 Ibid., 4 Jan. 1958 – refers to his letter [not held]; it is kind of him to remind her of her unfinished works[?]; on she and Mikel finishing the Canada report; encloses Hutton’s letter [not held]; on Man reviews; on Paine’s magnum opus; on editing Rupen’s Mongolia manuscript; hopes he will see she is fighting battles other than reindeer (autogr.)
/4/324 Ibid., 4 Jan. 1958 – on Quigstad, who died in Mar.; Pentti Aalto represented the Finnish learned societies at the obsequies; suggests he ask Vorren to write an Obituary Notice (autogr.)
/325 Ibid., 10 Jan. – refers to ‘confusion’ regarding Vorren; mentions Norah Gourlie, who is appeased; does not think she and MU will go far away; might go to a hotel in Aviemore to try to finish the report; refers to a cutting [not held] (autogr.)
/326 The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 16 Jan. – T.E. Utley, ‘The Art of Resigning’ (newspaper cutting)
/327 EJL to MWS, 23 Jan. – hopes she had a pleasant journey to the States; would be grateful for comments on ‘the enclosed’ [not held]. on the Stefanssons; on Dr Johanna von Lohuizen de Leeuw; on fixing a date with her (tp.); note from EJL to WBF – mentions Bulmer; suggests he gets Prof. Bascom, who is in Cambridge for two terms, to speak (autogr.)
/328 The Reindeer Company Limited, Balance Sheet as at 28 Feb. (tp.)
/329 Ibid., Revenue Account for the year ended 28 Feb. (tp.)
/330 B.S. Wamery for the Principal Keeper of Printed Books, Copyright Receipt Office, BM, to the Office of the Council, Reindeer Council of the UK, 12 Mar. – the Annual Reports of the Reindeer Council do not appear to have been delivered; requests that they be forwarded as soon as possible (tp. copy)
/331 [EJL] to the Principal Keeper of Printed Books, Copyright Receipt Office, BM, 17 Mar. – refers to his letter [/4/330]; was unaware of any obligation to deliver copies of the annual reports; the six reports are being sent by the same post; if not required, asks that they be returned (tpc.)
/332 B.S. Damery to EJL, 21 Mar. – sends receipt for the reports of the Reindeer Council; they have been asked for more than once by readers; asks her to send future reports (tp. copy)
/333 EJL, Notice of the Twenty-second Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, to be held on 11 Apr. (tpc.)
/334 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 3 Apr. – Agenda for the Twenty-Second Meeting to be held on 11 Apr. (tp. with autogr. note by EJL)
/4/335 Minutes of the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, held on 11 Apr. 1958. 19 pages (tp.)
/336 EJL to WBF, 6 May – returns the enclosure [not held]; on the first calf of the season which was born today; invites him and his mother to a sherry party on 17 May for Mikel’s 50th birthday (autogr.)
/337 Ibid., 2 June – asks if they can meet on 5 June before Council as there are a number of things she would like to discuss; on a discussion with BJK concerning the Vorren review of Whitaker; Paine has written asking about the delay; Mikel is in Sweden; she hopes to be on Reindeer Reserve 9-11 June; is thinking of postponing the Reindeer Council AGM until the autumn (autogr.)
/338 EJL, 7 June – Notice to Members of the Reindeer Council; on calving; on herding; on the postponement of the AGM until 10 Oct.; on a mention of the herd of reindeer in a guide to the area (tpc.)
/339 Ibid., 23 June – Notice that the Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd. will be held on 22 Aug. (tp.)
/340 Ibid., ibid. – Report by the Directors to the Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Members, to be held on 22 Aug. 3 leaves (tp.)
/341 Slater, Dominy & Swann, ibid. – Report of the Auditors to the Members of the Reindeer Company Ltd. (tp.)
/342 William Brotherston to WBF, 25 June – on his subscription to the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/343 EJL to WBF, 27 June – on leaving his grand ‘do’ early; had an appointment at the FO; thought the Princess enchanting (autogr.)
/344 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 3 July – Statement of Accounts, for year ended 30 June (tp.)
.1 8 July – compliments slip from William Brotherston (tp.)
/345 Minute of the Sixth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Reindeer Company Ltd., held on 22 Aug. 2 leaves (tp.)
/4/346 EJL to WBF, 27 Aug. 1958 – she produced his ‘power of attorney’ at the meeting last Friday; she would appreciate tips regarding the RAI, Huntingford and his [WBF’s] dates; asks if his mother is going out too; on Sir Frederick and Louis Clarke; on John and Judy (autogr.)
/347 EJL, 25 Sept. – Notice of the postponement of the Twenty-Third Meeting and the Annual Meeting until 24 Oct.; on the bull Fritzen, who was found dead (tpc.)
/348 Ibid., to A.E. Glen, 6 Oct. – was sorry that he and Mrs Glen were so busy when their Aviemore visits overlapped; on the meetings being held in London; refers to Sir Frederick’s letter informing him of election; on the foundation of a Reindeer Society; is delighted that Anne chose to speak and write on the subject of reindeer; they would be welcome to join the Society (tp. copy)
/349 William Brotherston to WBF, 9 Oct. – this letter is formal receipt for his subscription to the Reindeer Council of the UK (tp.)
/350 EJL, 21 Oct. – Agenda for the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom to be held on 24 Oct. (tp.)
/351 Agenda for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council, to be held on 24 Oct. (tp.)
/352 Minutes of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/353 Minutes of the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom. 11 pages (tp.)
/354 William Brotherston to WBF, 31 Oct. – on an issue of shares in the Reindeer Company Ltd.; asks if he would like to take up a part of this issue; asks to hear from him by 15 Nov.; the final allocation will be made on 17 Nov. (tp.)
/5 1959-88 Ethel John Lindgren Papers
/1 1959 – [WBF?], on Huntingford and Journal matters; mentions Miss Scotten’s payment; on MWS; refers to his three African trips. 2 leaves (tp. copy)
/2 The Reindeer Company Ltd., Balance Sheet as at 28 Feb. (tp.)
/3 Ibid., Revenue Account for the year ended 28 Feb. (tp.)
/5/4 Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 20 Mar. 1959 – ‘Free Student of Man’, review of ‘An Anthropologist at Work: the Writings of Ruth Benedict’, ed. Margaret Mead, by Stevie Smith (newspaper cutting)
/5 EJL to WBF, 13 May – welcomes him back; had left messages asking to be alerted of his return; on attending a Guildhall banquet; on Lapp Research Series papers; she is delighted to be back in; shall enjoy the fray; on Huntingford; on MWS; mentions Whitaker and Paine. 4 pages (autogr.)
/6 Ibid., 14 May – on W.R. Read’s book ‘An Economic Geography of the Scandinavian States and Finland’ which mentions the JTAI Lapp Series; it is not true that the Hon. Ed. is bound to publish papers she submits (autogr.)
/7 Ibid., ibid. – hopes to hear his talk on 4 June; on Miss Scotten and her account; on writing to Miss Edwards about it; is glad the account resulted in a show-down; on paying for reprints. 4 pages (autogr.)
/8 A.J. Sutcliffe, BM (Natural History) to EJL, 21 May – is keen to visit the reindeer; asks if this would be possible (tp. copy)
/9 Daily Telegraph, 28 May – ‘Scottish Reindeer’, letter by Sir Frederick Whyte (newspaper cutting)
/10 EJL, 23 July – the Reindeer Company Ltd., Report by the Directors to the Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Members to be held on 22 Aug. 6 leaves (tp.)
/11 Ibid., ibid. – Notice that the Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Reindeer Company Ltd. will be held on 22 Aug. (tp.)
/12 Slater, Dominy & Swann, ibid. – Report of the Auditors to the Members of the Reindeer Company Ltd. (tp.)
/13 Press & Journal, 31 July – ‘More will graze in Cairngorms – Reindeer are a Success’ (newspaper cutting)
/14 EJL to WBF, 12 Aug. – on arrangements for his visit on 22 Aug.; mentions Esther Carmichael; on getting films copied; asks if the RAI could make an inquiry (autogr.)
/15 Ibid., 16 Aug. – on meeting at the Garden House Hotel; on people who are coming; mentions Ewan Ormiston (autogr. pc)
/5/16 nd – Notice of the Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd. to be held on 22 Aug. 1959 (tp.)
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/18 EJL to MWS, 26 Aug. – on the Lapp Research Review Series, JRAI; responds to her query of 5 Aug. [not held]; outlines progress with the series; the series has done a lot of good, both in and out of Scandinavia; refers to Prof. Collinder’s manuscript; it would have been helpful if the series had been concluded several years ago; the value of the series has suffered little (tpc.)
/19 William Brotherston, 29 Sept. – the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Statement of Accounts for year ended 30 June (tp.)
/20 Ibid. to WBF, 30 Sept. – encloses Statement of Accounts [/5/19]; on his subscription for the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/21 Ibid., 5 Oct. – on his subscription for the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/22 Observer, 11 Oct. – ‘Inside Africa’, review of ‘David Livingstone: Family Letters 1841-1856’, ed. I. Schapera, by Cecil Northcott (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/23 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 26 Oct. – Notice of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Council and the Tenth Annual Meeting, to be held on 30 Oct. 2 leaves (tp.)
/24 EJL to WBF, 28 Oct. – is worried that she has not heard that he is coming; asks him to telephone her (autogr. card)
/25 Ibid., 3 Dec. – refers to P. Peter dope; on an Irishman called Barton who has married his lifelong love; she is described as an authority on the Incas; asks for help; on Mrs Putnam who is resigning from the RCAS due to ill health; EJL is suspected of witchcraft (autogr.)
/26 Ibid., ibid. – on Norah Gourlie; all her material was returned to her, including her manuscript for Man which she and WBF edited; on the Swedish side of the picture; on the reason for the long hold-up; she gave her lots of tips; refers to her [Gourlie’s] trip to Finland (autogr.)
/5/27 EJL, 10 Dec. 1959 – notes on Norah Gourlie; gives the chronology of her dealings with Miss Gourlie and of Miss Gourlie’s article on a Lapp congress; makes comments on her (autogr. note)
/28 Ibid., 16 Dec. – ‘Russian Experts on Africa’; E-P assures office that Brogge will be agreeable to being elected; has no objection provided he is not conducting an anti-British campaign; asks if he is on the mailing list of the enclosed publication; asks if he would like to be; asks that Miss C. should hear of developments in Soviet African studies (autogr.)
/29 Ibid., nd – notes of BBC programme on 20 Dec. and Scottish Television programme on 26[?] Dec. (autogr. note)
/30 Ibid. to WBF, 29 Dec. – refers to his letter [not held]; is glad they will see him (autogr. pc)
/31 MWS to EJL, ibid. – on Honorary Fellows; thanks her for information on Leslie Spier (tp. with autogr. notes from EJL to WBF)
/32 Bruce Biggs, ‘Anthropologists in New Guinea’, from ‘University of Auckland Gazette’, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1960 (offprint with autogr. note from R[alph] B[ulmer])
/33 G.W.B. Huntingford, ‘The Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Orientalists, 1960’. 3 leaves (tp., with autogr. note ‘For Man?’)
/34 1 Jan. 1960 – ‘China’s Population Nearing 700M.’ (newspaper cutting)
/34a WBF, c. 10 Jan. – note of the name and address of Lawrence Krader (autogr. note on the back of an envelope)
/34b EJL to WBF, 11 Jan. – recommends that he read C.C. Hughes, ‘Anomie, the Ammassalik, and the Standardization of Error’; Man must take up this banner and keep it flying (autogr. note)
/34c Max Beloff, Daily Telegraph[?], 20 Jan. – ‘Patron Saint of Social Studies’, review of ‘Max Weber: an Intellectual Portrait’ by Reinhard Bendix; ‘The City’ by Max Weber, & ‘Political Man’ by Seymour Martin Lipset (newspaper cutting)
/5/35 EJL to WBF, 1 Feb. 1960 – while he was away in Africa she[?] asked for material on Emilie Demant Hatt from her sorrowing husband; on a visit by Robert and Inger Paine; asks if WBF would allow Paine to write an obituary; wishes he would get Li Chi’s book reviewed; Council was listening to talk which seemed to suggest he was practically extinct. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/36 Cambridge Daily News, 4 Feb. – ‘Seven in Favour of Sociology’ (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/37 EJL to WBF, 16 Feb. – on publications; on Audrey Richards, whose wartime sarcasms left an unpleasant taste; speculates that she must be at least half Welsh[?]; on her own reaction; mentions Huntingford and his defence of Hultkrantz; Huntingford sent Wickman no galley; Wickman needs page proofs to put in with other papers in support of his seeking a professorship in Finno-Ugrian languages at Uppsala; has written to him to write to the Hon. Editor at the RAI; on reviews; will send MWS’s letter when she has acknowledged it; on Man; has invited him for 24 Feb.; thanks him for strontium 90; mentions Sir John Hammond; is angry about Paine’s review of ‘Samiid Dilit’ in Man, Dec. 1959; explains why; has written to him on very frank lines; he was much depressed by Leach and Needham turning down his PhD; […?] stayed three nights with them; fears he will not outgrow the obstinacy of adolescence. 4 pages (autogr.)
/38 Observer, 28 Feb. – ‘American Soustellist’, review by John Ardagh of ‘Algeria in Turmoil’ by Michael K. Clark (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/39 The Field, 3 Mar. – ‘Reindeer on the Cairngorms’ (magazine page)
/40 EJL to WBF, ibid. – on whether or not she will attend RAI Council; Miss Edwards has asked her to write an obituary of Gudmund Hatt; would be grateful if he could lend her anything he has seen; Mikel has been working with Hatt’s reindeer-breeding-origins study; on his major work of recent years; outlines the work which is on her conscience; awaits his reply about the Paine review; on Caton’s health (tp.)
/41 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – refers to a letter from Judy Lindgren dated 8 Mar.; she mentions a new school of archaeology at Dar-es-Salaam (autogr. card)
/5/42 Ibid. to WBF, 29 Mar. 1960 – has been waiting for his verdict on the Paine review; on a Mongol violin from Urga; a lady from UMAE has been writing up violins; on her own violin with the horse’s head; she would be glad to pay for a colour plate to illustrate an article; refers to the Sunday Times; discusses Dr Raymond Allchin; on the health of Mikel’s mother; asks if Man would publish an article [on the violin?] 4 pages (autogr.)
/43 Notes on Raymond Allchin (tp.)
/44 The Field, 7 Apr. – ‘Reindeer in Scotland’ (magazine cutting)
/45 18 Apr. – ‘Reindeer in Lapland’ (newspaper cutting)
/46 EJL to Mrs Jean L. Jenkins, 19 Apr. – refers to her letter of 15 Apr. [not held] and MS of her article on ‘The Morienhur: A Mongolian Fiddle’; had given the painting to WBF for a coloured plate; has acquired a new volume of Mongolian drawings; hopes to post her two plates showing Mongol instruments; has been extremely hard-pressed the last weeks; mentions Mr Allchin; on Kurghiz and Kazakh recordings; on checking for more details about the fiddle (tp.)
/47 The Field, 28 Apr. – ‘Reindeer in Scotland’ (magazine cutting)
/48 Cambridge Daily News, 30 Apr. – ‘Miss J. Burkitt is Married at Grantchester’ (newspaper cutting)
/49 EJL to WBF, 9 May – on the article ‘The Morienhur: a Mongolian Fiddle’ for Man; it is not clear whether the authoress had received EJL’s notes before submitting her MS to Man; on amendments to be made; gives some references which she looked up (tp.)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – additional notes relating to the Mongolian fiddle article; has not had an answer to her letter to Mrs J.; July or Aug. would do for the article; she [Mrs Jenkins] is a pretty cool customer; mentions the Orientalist Congress in Moscow. 3 leaves (autogr.)
/50 ‘Notes on 2nd Draft of Mrs Jean Lynn Jenkins’ MS: “The Morienhur: A Mongolian Fiddle”’ (tp. with autogr. addition)
.1 EJL, note relating to /5/50 (autogr.)
/5/51 EJL to WBF, 11 May 1960 – received a copy of Robert Lowie’s ‘Ethnologist’ from his widow; would be delighted to review it (autogr. note)
/52 EJL to Mrs Jean L. Jenkins, 18 May – refers to her letter of 15 May [not held]; on including corrections to her article at galley proof stage; asks her to return the two plates; looks forward to meeting her (tp.)
/53 Ibid., 26 May – refers to her own letter of 18 May [/5/52]; encloses a letter from the Hon. Editor of Man; there is time to tidy up any points in the article; has failed to locate any further details about her own Mongol violin; thanks her for returning the plates (tp.)
/54 Ibid. to WBF, ibid. – encloses a copy of her letter to Mrs Jenkins [/5/53]; if Mrs Jenkins refuses to modify her draft, would have no objection to it appearing as it is; on photographs she intends to publish; he could proceed to prepare the colour plates (tp.)
/55 Ibid., ibid. – on the Council meeting on 2 June; it is inconvenient for her to come that day; rang the office about donation for Lapp Film; discusses this [near illegible]; on Mrs Jenkins; Jack rang her asking her to find him somewhere to stay; on obituaries in Man; on reindeer calves. 4 pages (autogr.)
/56 The Field, 2 June – ‘Reindeer in Scotland’ (magazine cutting)
/57 The Reindeer Company Limited, 2 Aug. – notice of the Eighth Annual General Meeting to be held on 27 Aug.; includes Report by the Auditors, Balance Sheet as at 29 Feb. 1960 and Revenue Account for the year ended 29 Feb. 1960. 4 leaves (tp.)
/58 EJL to WBF, 3 Aug. – on the Reindeer Company AGM on 27 Aug.; on Riley; Croft is in hospital; Kallas said he would come; John R.L. can hardly fly to the meeting; hopes to count on WBF; Lewis wants more shares; she has a bad hip (autogr.)
/59 The Reindeer Company Limited, 5 Aug. – Report by the Directors to the Annual General Meeting to be held on 27 Aug. 9 leaves (tp.)
/60 EJL to WBF, 22 Aug. – asks him to lunch on 27 Aug.; will be bringing L.C.G. C[larke]. (autogr. pc)
/5/61 Ibid., 4 Sept. 1960 – on her study of Man for May 1960; on a review of Allchin; asks who G.K. Park is; on an obituary of Gudmund Hatt; on an obituary of Emilie Demant Hatt; on Sir George Beresford-Stooke’s review of Andrew Cohen’s book; she and Mikel are going to Aviemore. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/62 EJL, nd – note of the name and address of Lawrence Krader who is staying c. 15 Sept. for 2 days with Dr Birnbaum (autogr. note)
/63 The Times, 17 Sept. – ‘No Photographs’, letters from Bengt Hardcastle and F. Francis, Director and Principal Librarian, BM (newspaper cutting)
/64 William Brotherston to WBF, 21 Sept. – on his subscription to the Reindeer Council of the UK (tp.)
/65 EJL to ibid., 12 Oct. – on a Nigerian exhibit; asks if he sees the Observer; on June Degray[?]; Kinder spent a day at Sunbourn in July; on his travels; on Mortimer Wheeler’s ‘onslaught’; mentions Reindeer Council on 28 Oct. (autogr.)
/66 Brotherston & Bee to ibid., 26 Oct. – on shares in the Reindeer Company Limited; on a new issue of shares; asks how many he wishes to apply for; the final allocation will be made on 12 Nov. (tp.)
/67 EJL, 25 Aug. – notice of the Twenty-Fifth Ordinary Meeting and the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, to be held on 28 Oct. (tp.)
/68 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – Minutes of the Twenty-Fifth Ordinary Meeting held on 28 Oct. 9 leaves (tp.)
/69 Ibid., ibid. – Minutes of the Eleventh Annual Meeting held on 28 Oct. (tp.)
/70 EJL to [WBF?], 31 Oct. – on discussion of editorial matters at the last Council meeting; mentions several people – Fortes, Schapera, Kaberry; when she begins to publish, must be able to count on his sympathy and friendship; on his note about the Man article; hopes the attribution of payment does not appear; refers to her payment towards Lapp films; cut the RAI out of her will long ago (tp.)
/71 Ibid., 3 Nov. – on his intervention concerning the Man plate; mentions the Journal; Miss Edwards was rattled (autogr. note)
/5/72 Ibid.[?], 25 Nov. 1960 – on conversations; on her neighbour discussing the politics of his assistant[?]; the assistant is very disloyal; he cannot get rid of her; he asked EJL to lecture; on his wife; discusses someone who is not likely to be too independent to be of use to the Party; mentions M. Fortes and Huntingford (autogr.)
/73 Henry Field to EJL, 30 Nov. – on her colour plate of the fiddle from Ulan Bator; has returned to Coconut Grove after two years at Harvard; hopes to come to Europe next year (tp.)
/74 EJL to WBF, 8 Dec. – on the Orientalists Congress; has heard several accounts of the Congress; H. was less impressed by the scholarly contributions; the R.s have got what they asked for; her suggestion would be to publish it as it is; if H. is excluded from the USSR that does not matter; on other RAI representatives; makes a correction to a text; thanks him for letting her see ‘this’ when it comes out; suggests he send a copy to Du C. F.O. (autogr.)
/75 Ibid., ibid. – on the Lowie obituary; on a man from Berkeley who is apparently seeing Mrs Lowie from time to time (autogr. note)
/76 Ibid., 9 Dec. – on her health; the reindeer will be on the BBC on 14 Dec.; mentions Jenkins (autogr. note)
/77 Extract from J. of American Folklore, Vol. 74, 1961, devoted to ‘Folklore Research Around the World: A North American Point of View’ (tp.)
/78 Brill’s Weekly, 18 Feb. – advertisement for R.H. Lowie, ‘Selected Papers in Anthropology’ (printed cutting with autogr. comment from EJL to WBF concerning Izikowitz)
/79 The Cambridge Review, 4 Mar. 1961 – Peter Worsley, review of ‘Mambu’ by K.O.L. Burridge; Christina Bone, review of ‘The Lapps’ by Roberto Bosi. 2 leaves (magazine cutting)
.1 EJL, nd – note on the two reviews (autogr.)
/80 Gertrude Caton Thompson to EJL, 8 Mar. – asks for Sweeting’s letter back; thanks her for the prompt about RAI affairs; on Schapera’s nomination; discusses him; mentions M.R. and Christie [Anthony H. Christie, Hon. Secretary 1961-70]; mentions Marjorie Sweeting; on EJL’s obituary of the Frenches; discusses feminine exploits; likens these to the behaviour of one of her cats (autogr.)
/5/81 Daily Telegraph, 24 Mar. 1961 – Jeremy Wolfenden, ‘Guidance Through Russian Tangles’, review of ‘Everyman’s Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia’ by S.V. Utechin (newspaper cutting with autogr. comments by EJL)
/82 EJL to WBF, 26 Mar. – hopes he has had a profitable tour; on the Hon. Secretaryship of the RAI[?]; talks about Audrey and their conversation; on the fatal illness of Bosworth Monck; Audrey asked her view of Christie as Hon. Secretary; Audrey said WBF thought Christie too zealous; further discussion of Christie; on the question of a joint secretaryship. 4 pages (autogr.)
/83 Ibid., 1 Apr. – on the joint Hon. Secretaryship; asks him to keep her in touch with his reactions; refers to a separate note on reviews; on her policy; mentions some reindeer cows from south Norway (autogr.; near illegible)
/84 Brill’s Weekly, 15 Apr. – advertisement for C.C. Black, ‘The Transformation of Russian Society’ (printed page)
/85 WBF to EJL, 17 Apr. – Christie will not function as Hon. Secretary until after the AGM; on keeping correspondence about reviews (autogr.; part missing)
/86 Brill’s Weekly, 22 Apr. – advertisement for G. Jahoda, ‘White Man’ (printed page with autogr. comment by EJL)
/87 EJL to WBF, 19 May – refers to his letter of 17 Apr. [/5/85]; on MWS; refers to the Times obituary and Mr Akehurst’s letter; describes what she did during a very busy fortnight at Aviemore; on quarantine premises at Newcastle; on building works at Sunbourn; discusses her cousin Ann Roe; she and her husband are going to Tanganyika; asks if he is interested in having something on this for Man; on Reviews; is sorry to tear up his letter; asks him to speak to BJK; on [Norah] Gourlie; mentions Kissling. 6 pages (autogr.)
/88 Ibid., 13 July – on the postponement of the Reindeer Company AGM as the Directors’ Meeting could not take place; the AGM is likely to be 16 Aug. in Ed[inburgh] (autogr. pc)
/89 19 July – Report of the Auditors to the Members of the Reindeer Company Limited; Balance Sheet as at 28 Feb. 1961; Revenue Account for the year ended 28 Feb. 1961. 3 leaves (tp.)
/90 EJL, The Reindeer Company Limited, 21 July – notice of the Ninth Annual General Meeting to be held on 18 Aug. (tp.)
/5/91 The Reindeer Company Limited, 21 July 1961 – Report by the Directors to the Ninth Annual General Meeting, to be held on 18 Aug. 5 leaves (tp.)
/92 EJL to WBF, 25 July – sends the Reindeer Company’s Annual Report; she and Mikel are sorry the AGM has to be in Edinburgh; on W[illiam] B[rotherston] being in hospital; on the Lowie obituary; on the Gudmund Hatt obituary (tp.)
/93 Ibid., ibid. – on the Martindell ghost and the present incumbent [Anthony H. Christie]; on the arrival of a male Hon. Secretary after a female reign; any light he can throw will be helpful; on Miss E.’s frigidity regarding sending friend to the Kazakh lecture; on ‘nonsense’ over an invitation she received from William Clark, Director of the Overseas Institute (tp.)
/94 EJL to [WBF?], 27 July – on Miss Janice Westley[?]; on her retirement from the RIIA; she has got a research job; suggests her send her all suitable publications (autogr.)
/95 G[ertrude] C[aton] T[hompson] to EJL, 4 Aug. – on visiting her aunt in a nursing home; was upset when she got back to the house and EJL had just left; Dorothy has the Mongolia cutting safe; EJL must not be disappointed that she does not seem disposed to leap into the fray; teaching Africans seems the thing she can do best now her active field days are over; the foundation of the British Institute of Historical and Archaeological Research in Eastern Africa is occupying her attention and capacity (autogr.)
.1 EJL to WBF – this shows that she has some of the same ideas for Africa that he has (autogr. note)
/96 EJL to A.H. Christie, 1 Sept. – on the price of Man; wonders if Fellows might be willing to pay a lower subscription for unbound issues; on the announcement of the new Pamphlet series (tp.)
/97 ‘Notice to All Subscribers to MAN’, regarding the price increase from 1 Jan. 1962 (printed cutting with autogr. note by EJL referring to her letter to A.H Christie
/98 The Times, 7 Sept. – ‘Hon. Sec.’ (newspaper cutting)
/5/99 EJL to WBF, 18 Sept. 1961 – thanks him for two communications; on an article in the Times; encloses copies of two letters which she would like returned; asks about the RAI Hon. Secretary’s letter to the Times; called on BEBF and his family (tp.)
/100 Ibid. to Dr Terence E. Armstrong, ibid. – on the eight lovely creatures Mikel has brought back; on the persons most to be thanked for the smoothness of the procedure; on the changed attitude of the authorities; encloses a copy of a letter which she asks him to return; on her movements in the coming days (tp.; slightly damaged)
/101 Ibid. to William Brotherston, ibid. – on the Reindeer Council; suggests that he might be proposed as one of two Vice-Chairmen, instead of Hon. Treasurer; on the Chairman; on his period of office as Treasurer; would like to make some permanent provision for the Council in her will; would like his reactions (tp.)
/102 Ibid. to [WBF?] , 1 Oct. – on being ill; cannot come to RAI [Council?]; this is her third communiqué; the first has not been acknowledged; her letters are scattered in US universities; he is an irregular and unpredictable correspondent (autogr. note)
/103 William Brotherston to WBF, 6 Oct. – refers to WBF’s letter of 5 Oct. [not held] enclosing subscription for four years to the Reindeer Council; sends best wishes for his trip to America (tp.)
/104 EJL to [WBF?], ibid. – ‘Notes on yesterday’s Meeting’; discusses various points and various people involved with the RAI [near illegible]. 3 pages (autogr.)
/105 Ibid., 7 Oct. – quotes from Miss Connolly on Mary Holdsworth’s bibliography of Russian work on Africa; on reviewing it; on Christie’s review of ‘The Junkman Smiles’; on Gayre of Gayre; on the hose[?] which she passed to him and he passed to MWS; on the Reindeer Council business; on the Paine review for Man; refers to another review in the TLS; is being trained as an instructor in Civil Defence. 4 pages (autogr.)
/106 The Observer, 29 Oct. – ‘Khrushchev’s Battle for Supremacy’ (newspaper cutting)
/5/107 Gertrude Caton Thompson to EJL, 29 Oct. 1961 – on the RAI; refers to Miss Edwards’ note; discussed Miss Edwards with Sir G[eorge] B[eresford]-S[tooke]; on finding a replacement for her; Fleure wants to meet her to reveal what he gathered from Miss E.; the opinion of the ‘upstarts’ is that the RAI is a stuffy society which inaugurates nothing; D. would be glad if EJL were to suggest that 9 years in succession is excessive. 4 pages (autogr. with autogr. notes by EJL; some paper cut away)
/108 The Times, 30 Oct. – ‘Waiting for the Queen’ (newspaper cutting)
/109 Proofs of pages from Man, Nov. (printed with autogr. corrections and note by B.A.L. C[ranstone], Assistant Keeper, Department of Ethnography, BM)
/110 EJL, Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 1 Nov. – notice of the Twenty-Sixth Ordinary Meeting to take place on 24 Nov.; Mr Frank Ottley has been nominated as Hon. Treasurer and would be willing to serve; the Chairman has approved the suggestion that nominations for two Vice-Chairmen should be received; Mr Brotherston has been nominated and is willing to serve; should be glad to receive nominations for a second Vice-Chairman (tp.)
/111 Bryan [Cranstone] to WBF, ibid. – refers to WBF’s letter [not held]; will read the relevant part of his letter at the Council meeting if necessary; has had a largely illegible letter from EJL; will have to telephone her to discover what points she would like him to raise; on page proofs for Nov. Man; Clowes sent him a copy of a letter from WBF on reviews for Nov. issue; he said he would post make-up for Nov. before leaving on a trip; asks if he wrote ‘Nov.’ meaning ‘Dec.’ (autogr.)
/112 Daily Express, 2 Nov. – ‘Amoral James Bond – by the man who’ll play him’ (newspaper cutting)
/113 H.J. Fleure to Gertrude Caton Thompson, 3 Nov. – on RAI matters; on WBF (autogr.)
/114 5 Nov. – brief Curriculum Vitae and list of publications of Rachael Ann Corkill. 2 leaves (tp.)
/115 Notice of a lecture on ‘Xhosa Language, Tradition, Custom’ by Noni Jabavu on 7 Nov. (tp.)
/116 EJL to A.H. Christie, 11 Nov. – mentions that the Reindeer Council has booked the meeting room at the RAI for its annual meeting; describes the Council (tpc.)
/5/117 G[ertrude] C[aton] T[hompson] to EJL, 13 Nov. 1961 – she did not tell her Mrs Cherry had left; she was not contemplating doing so when she was up for Council; hopes it is a mistake carried over from an earlier rumour (autogr. with autogr. notes by EJL)
/118 The Listener, 16 Nov. – Lucy Mair, review of ‘Belgian Administration in the Congo’ by Georges Brausch and ‘Congo: Tribes and Parties’ by D. Biebuyck and M. Douglas (newspaper page)
/119 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, ibid. – Statement of Accounts for year ended 30 June 1961, and Report by the Honorary Treasurer for the year ended 30 June 1961 (tp.)
/120 Ibid., ibid. – compliments slip from William Brotherston (printed and tp.)
/121 EJL to [WBF?], 17 Nov. – it will be Tuesday before she can send a full report; discusses RAI matters concerning Miss Edwards and Mrs Cherry; mentions Mrs Blackwood (autogr. note)
/122 Ibid., nd – when they have enough evidence, suggests that he, GC-T, Cranstone and herself take the President for a drink; the facts can be put before him; the Hon. Secretary’s immediate resignation can be obtained; has never suggested such a thing before (autogr. note)
/123 Ibid., nd – an explanation has emerged; outlines it; it involves C. borrowing money from Petty Cash (autogr. note)
/124 EJL, Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 18 Nov. – Agenda for the 26th Ordinary Meeting of the Council to be held on 24 Nov.; the 12th Annual Meeting follows (tp.)
/125 21 Nov. – Glyn Edmund Daniel approved for degree of Doctor of Letters (printed slip)
/126 Gertrude Caton Thompson to EJL, 24 Nov. – sends the cutting; it is impersonal and very sensible; but agrees that newspaper correspondence is better not written from learned societies; WBF did not speak to her about internal politics which was wise (autogr.)
.1 The Times, 24 Aug. – letter from Anthony Christie, ‘Cholera Epidemic’. 2 leaves (newspaper cutting)
/5/126.2 EJL to [WBF?], nd – in 26 years’ acquaintance with the RAI cannot remember anyone writing from its address on matters of no concern to it (autogr. note)
/127 EJL to WBF, 26 Nov. 1961 – on her letter to Christie of 1 Nov. [not held]; would be delighted if he would raise the matter; on Reindeer blood groups; is sorry he made his suggestion of this topic so modestly; the Sedes have now done the job and an English summary has been printed in Nature; on RAI Committees; on Oakley and his health; on her lecture at the Horniman; on Otto Sansom; will come up on 7 Dec.; will telephone him to discuss things before the meeting. 4 pages (autogr.)
/128 EJL[?] to WBF[?], 27 Nov. – on a letter from Ct; asked Mrs Q. what transpired at the meeting of Arch. and Anth.; refers to the 7 Dec.; had typed out Who’s Who extracts of the 3 Cudlipps [/4/215]; asks if he would like to borrow them or lend direct to CT (tp. and autogr.)
/129 Cambridge University Reporter, 29 Nov. – the Council of the Senate has appointed Dr F.R. Allchin representative to the International Conference on Asian Archaeology (printed page)
/130 The Listener, 30 Nov. – ‘The Politics of Emancipation’ by Margery Perham. 5 pages (newspaper pages)
/131 Ibid., ibid. – Letters to the Editor from George Shepperson and J. Jones, on ‘The Colonial Reckoning’ (newspaper page)
/132 Ibid., ibid. – ‘Institutions and Men’ by John Rex (newspaper page)
/133 EJL to WBF, 2 Dec. – thanks him for notes; shall copy the facts to GCT; on WBF’s membership of a vital committee; it goes nowhere towards proving absence of danger; a wide variety of persons are eager for the old order to go; on her university; encloses review of the President’s review on Livingstone; asks him to let her know about Mrs Cherry (tp. with autogr. note)
/134 The Sunday Telegraph, 3 Dec. – ‘Portrait of a Spy’ by Gillian Blake. 2 leaves (newspaper pages)
/135 EJL to [WBF?], 4 Dec. – on GCT’s letter of 24 Nov. [/5/126]; on her comment that WBF was ‘wise’; no one will stir unless roused; the rouser is usually regarded as vulgar; the letter is tantamount to an exeat for her; on cutting of 24 Aug. [/5/126.1] 4 pages (autogr. note)
/5/136 Notice of a lecture to be given by R.G. Lienhardt on ‘The Concept of Objectivity in Social Anthropology’ (part of a printed card with autogr. notes by EJL)
/137 The Sunday Telegraph, 10 Dec. 1961 – ‘Double Life in Berlin’ by Gillian Blake. 2 leaves (newspaper pages)
.1 EJL to [WBF?], nd – this wanted back (autogr. note)
/138 EJL to R. Bulmer, 14 Dec. – on a letter from him [not held]; on the photograph of ‘Wet Season among the Pygmies’; asks if it could be incorporated into an article for Man; John has a son; on other news of John; on Reindeer House, Glenmore; her office finally moved to Sunbourn Annexe 3 months ago; on the renovations involved; on Mrs Beall; on Paine; Leach has been elected to a fellowship at King’s; the RAI is undergoing upheavals (tp.) [phot. 115778]
/139 Man, [Aug.] 1962 – A.I. Richards, review of ‘Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss’ by Georges Charbonnier. 2 leaves (printed proofs with autogr. notes by EJL)
/140 Flyer advertising books published in 1962 (printed with autogr. note by EJL)
/141 EJL to WBF, 1962 – on two phenomena familiar in USSR; on the explorer-ethnographer Arseniev; on drinking tea with jam with him; he had stayed to help the native tribes; after his death he was attacked as a bourgeois; objections to him appeared; there is no limit if you allow criticism of former employees (autogr. note, with note ‘re Edwards’)
/142 EJL, 26 Jan. 1962 – note concerning Jacqueline Rae Lindgren (autogr.)
/143 The Times, 12 Feb. – ‘Linnean Gold Medals Awarded’ (newspaper cutting with EJL to WBF. 1 Apr. – on George Gaylord Simpson; suggests he asks him for an article in Man; on her cousin Anne Roe who is married to George Gaylord Simpson; mentions Anna Biddle; on getting George to talk on Leakey’s palaeontological finds; Sir Frederic Bartlett is impressed with Anne Roe’s work; asks for his comments; WBF to EJL, nd – thinks it would be excellent to have Simpson at the RAI; has little influence on the lecture programme; on Christie going into hospital; if she give him warning of Simpson’s next visit he will see what he can do (autogr.)
/5/144 Ellen [Ettlinger] to EJL, 7 Mar. 1962 – thanks her for the card which she could not quite read; the […?] came today; Lady Drower is writing a new book at the age of 82; on the weather (autogr. with autogr. note by EJL about Lady Drower)
/145 EJL to [WBF?], post-7 Mar. – refers to BB letter of 7 Mar.; is sorry to be late in lending it; on the ASA; it claims to be a trade union; mentions the ‘Study of Society’ group; on CUP; on the Hon. Secretaryship of the RAI (autogr. note)
/146 WBF to EJL, 8 Mar. – ‘further RAI intelligence’; on consideration of the Treasurership; Schap asked if he would stand in while Christie was in hospital; mentions names of Philip Snow and Harry Wadsworth in connection with Treasurership; discusses Wadsworth (autogr. with autogr. note by EJL suggesting he make a copy as a record of what took place; some deleted)
/147 EJL to [WBF?], 9 Mar. – describes what he should say to Miss Wood; gives her comments (autogr.; near illegible)
/148 Frank Ottley to EJL, 15 Mar. – on Reindeer Council business; on hiring a room last Nov. (autogr.; mostly crossed through; includes note from EJL to [WBF?])
/149 [Mary Wood] to EJL, 20 Mar. – on EJL being a representative of the Anglo-Swedish Society at the Royal Garden Party; on Garden Parties more generally. 2 leaves (autogr.; some cut away)
/150 The British Psychological Society, meetings Apr. & May (printed card)
/151 Daily Express, 10 Apr. – ‘Just how arrogant are our eggheads?’ (newspaper cutting)
/152 EJL to WBF, c. 27 Apr. – on Elliot P. Skinner, reviewer of Gustav Jakoda’s ‘White Man’; mentions Dyson-Hudson’s review of Geiling’s ‘The Acholi of Uganda’; on Paine’s review (autogr. note)
/153 Ibid., 2 May – is staying with Ceceley 11/12 May; on GCT having supper with her; Mourant went to Ireland after Easter so is uncertain about being at the meeting tomorrow (autogr. pc)
/5/154 Ibid., 3 May 1962 – recounts a conversation with Zeuner about the Reindeer Council; he is sending to the printer the proofs of a book on domesticated animals which mentions the reindeer experiment; he has thought of visiting the reindeer; on GCT; on Evans’ candidature; on Huntingford; on Forde; relates conversation with Audrey, who was at school with Lady D.; Braunholtz and GCT had a long talk; on Civil Defence. 10 pages (autogr.; written on a train; near illegible)
/155 Ibid., 8 May – on a conversation with MWS; on his letter to B.B.; on GCT’s reaction; lists some queries. 4 pages (autogr.)
/156 Ibid., 13 May – on destroying the letter; on dinner for the FRS; M.[?] is activated; on anti-anti-C.-ism; on free tickets to Moscow or Peking; he travels about a lot; mentions Hutton; relays a lot of information about conversations with unnamed people; mentions Marett; on Jersey [many more pages of relayed conversations[?], near illegible]. 14 pages (autogr.)
/157 Ibid., 17 May – the formal letter can be shown to the Hon. Sec.; on changes she suggests; thinks it would be remarkable if no mention were made of the services of Miss Edwards, Mrs Cherry and BJK (autogr.)
/158 Ibid., ibid. – on J. Barnes’ lecture on fieldwork; asks if he is publishing it; asks what the main points were (autogr. note)
/159 Cambridge Daily News, 19 May – ‘Nigerian Talks about his Country’ (newspaper cutting)
/160 EJL, 22 May – notes headed ‘WBF & the BM’; would be delighted if he came to preside over such a distinguished department; query about Twitchett; on A.E.M. at the Huxley Lecture[?]; dropped a self-evident hint about the Presidency; on inviting J.H.H. to lunch. 4 pages (autogr.)
/161 Daily Express, ibid. – ‘In search of an embassy’ (newspaper cutting)
/162 Robert Paine to EJL, ibid. – refers to her letter [not held]; on Inger’s illness; on Michael; on his university post; on visitors; on calving (autogr.)
.1 EJL to WBF, 29 May – note relating to /5/162 (autogr.)
/5/163 EJL to [WBF?], 24 May 1962 – on ‘Who’s Who’; on Graham Clark; on Barnes; on Freeman; on Trevor; on Hildeman; on Schapera’s humour; on the Garden Party. 4 leaves (autogr. and tp.)
/164 Cambridge Daily News, 25 May – ‘Aga Khan tells City Branch of “A New Africa”’ (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/165 The Sunday Times, 27 May – Kingsley Martin, ‘Restless Reformer’, review of ‘Marie Stopes: A Biography’, by Keith Briant (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/166 EJL to [WBF?], 28 May – on Man reviews; mentions ‘Songs of Craig and Ben’ by Sir Arthur Geddes; it would be nice if RAI had it reviewed by Mrs Ettlinger or Dr Kissling (autogr. note)
.1 Arthur Geddes, University of Edinburgh, to EJL, nd – compliments slip; asks if she would like review copies of his works ‘The Songs of Craig and Ben’ and ‘Laments and Farewells to the Hills; Love Songs and Lilts’ for Folklore and Man (autogr.)
/167 Ibid., 29 May – asks him to destroy letter; on JCT, ‘our mutual friend’, who needs a lot of help; she was helpful to him when he first came to Cambridge and when he had a breakdown in 1947; on his preoccupation with sex; has seen him 5 or 6 times since 1955; on signs of trouble between T. and J.; on other episodes from 1957, 1958 and 1959; on T.; on the last occasions at Sunbourn; he has since 1952 wanted to exchange confidences on confidential matters; she has never given a half-inch; comparison with WBF-EJL could scarcely be more remote. 8 pages (autogr.)
/168 The Globe and Mail Overseas, 30 May – ‘Dag Scholarship Won First Time by Nigerian’ (newspaper cutting)
/169 Programme for a Conference on ‘Automation and the Worker’ to be held at Birkbeck College on 2 June (tp.)
/170 Beatrice [Blackwood], Pitt Rivers Museum, to EJL, 5 June – on a lunch invitation; is sorry she cannot come as she is not coming to the Council meeting; has not been able to do the typed copies of the film papers; is sorry EJL will not be on the Council next year; had a letter from Mrs Lowie; encloses one she had earlier (autogr.)
/5/171 EJL to [WBF?], 12 June 1962 – encloses two notes; is surprised that he did not comment on her donation; £50 is a lot of money; he should see that the possibility of using the Endowment Fund is fully explored; on C.’s temper (autogr.)
/172 Daily Express, 13 June – ‘Soviet scientist accused’ (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/173 EJL to John Middleton, 15 June – refers to his letter of 6 Mar. [not held]; thanks him for return of the USA film cards; looks forward to seeing the film catalogue (tp.)
.1 EJL, note concerning nomination to Film Committee (autogr.)
/174 EJL to Dr Lawrence Krader, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 15 June – it is noble of him to undertake to supervise a new International Director[y] of Anthropologists; regrets the delay in sending in her entry; on the institutions of which she is a member; mentions names she has suggested for circularizing: Goswami, Paine, Dr Werner Kissling, Mrs Ellen Ettlinger, Dr Tadeusz Grygier and T.C. Bagshawe (tp.)
/175 Ibid. to WBF, 16 June – thanks him for 2 letters [not held]; believes there is a 50-50 chance of ‘holding the line’ next Oct.; on Audrey Richards; on the Fighting Fund; on Booklets; mentions Digby; on Council membership and bye-laws; mentions Evans; on bye-laws; on Lethbridge; on Sutcliffe and Zeuner. 4 pages (autogr.)
/176 Ibid. to [WBF?], 18 June – on Lattimore talk; suggests he come; on his trip to East Africa; wonders if he is changing or staying at Nairobi; John is in Australia but Judy might be able to drive to the airport; she [EJL] would welcome first-hand news; gives address; on the Dining Club; hopes to come to some dinners; now she is off Council may be able to attend more lectures. 5 pages (autogr. note)
/177 Ibid., 19 June – asks him to destroy letter; on a conversation with Lucy M.; on Miss Liddell (autogr.)
/178 Ibid. to The Secretary, Association of Social Anthropologists Register, 20 June – refers to Man, 1962; would be glad of a copy of the Register (tp.)
/5/179 Ibid. to [WBF?], 20 June 1962 – on a reviewer; he could try Margery Perham; must have the book in the Library (autogr. note)
/180 Ibid., ibid. – would like to read the Lowie letters before too long (autogr. note)
/181 Ibid., 2 July – asks him to destroy letter; asks about his African jaunt; on getting BW elected as member of the august body of Associates[?]; relates an encounter by the tea table at the Garden Party; Zeuner is not coming to see the reindeer until winter but is going to Iceland; on Maurice Freedman; on Lloyd; relates some conversation; on the Fund; on using it as security for a bank loan; on breathing into Fraser Roberts’ ear about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 4 pages (autogr.)
/182 Cicely Shaw to WBF, 3 July – has views about the welfare of the RAI; would like to see the role of Hon. Sec. transformed into that of a salaried full-time secretary; has accidentally destroyed her copy of the accounts so does not know if RAI could afford this; describes the sort of person she has in mind; has put this to EJL and shall put it also to Lord Raglan, Dr Mourant and Sir George (autogr.)
/183 Ibid., 8 July – refers to the new Treasurer; on doing it again with a new Secretary; Mr Christie looks ill; on Sonia Cole who feels the Council is overweighted by the number of aged members; he is a massive personality and must make allowances for the reaction of his newer colleagues; suggests combining Man with the Journal; is concerned that he should carry his proper weight; change should be in the direction of an expansion; shall not talk to anyone about these things unless EJL discourses to her about them; relates what Sonia told her about EJL; EJL looks at most people through red spectacles. 4 pages (autogr.)
/184 Gertrude Caton Thompson to EJL, 10 July – mentions 80 acres of hillside which she is giving to the National Trust; thanks her for thoughts about arthritis alleviations; on her doctor’s treatment; mentions Oakley; on EJL’s donation to the Fighting Fund (autogr.)
/5/185 EJL to WBF, 11 July 1962 – on SC; believes she has plans to reign after AC era; she is not personally attached to anyone; on his portable [typewriter?]; on matters of confidence in letters; has ceased talking about the one case where he did just that; on hearing the patter of little feet in the RAI corridors; a decade or two on Council are needed for perspective; on lunching with C. in her 3rd year in Cambridge; discusses C. at length; mentions S. Cole; refers to the ‘red specs’ remark; on her[?] telling EJL to leave Cambridge; she is fond of EJL but sure her interpretation is wrong; on her dinner guests. 6 pages (autogr.; water damaged)
/186 EJL to Lady Cecily Shaw, 13 July – send three copies of Transition – a Journal of the Arts, Culture and Society, printed in Kampala; has been lending them to those about to visit East Africa; on her suggestion about altered constitutional arrangements for secretarial work at the RAI; there is scope for the wind of change to blew without doing away with office routine; refers to a booklet; refers to her listening in 1924-27 to F.C. Bartlett, Miss Whetnall and EJL on moral science problems; there is a parallel situation nowadays (tp. with autogr. additions)
/187 Ibid. to WBF, 27 July – on going to Aviemore with Karin Stahre and Mary Wood; she may stay until 15 Sept. although either MU or she might come south for a week in Aug. (autogr. note)
/188 M.N.P. Utsi, ‘The Scottish Reindeer’ (printed)
/189 WBF to [EJL], 28 Aug. – refers to her letter about dinner etc. [not held]; Trevor mentioned that he had intended to get in touch with her but was funking it as she never gave one a chance to state one’s side of the case (autogr. note with autogr. note by EJL in response)
/190 EJL to WBF, ibid. – on J.A. Barnes’ lecture to the RAI on 11 Jan.; asks whether it will be published in Man; if not, asks that he give the main point (autogr. pc)
/191 R.A. Corkill, ‘Publications by Renforskningen (Swedish Reindeer Research), 1953-61’, from the Polar Record, Vol. 11, No. 72, Sept. 1962 (offprint)
/192 [EJL?] to [WBF], 9 Sept. – on Prof. H. who has 6 children; on the children, including a daughter who went to Indonesia with a lady killer (tp.)
/5/193 EJL to WBF, 27 Sept. 1962 – he is getting American; on Karin Stahre; Miss C is weekending with her; will collect WBF; a reunion of war-time comrades would be excellent; she has asked Laurence Lockhart to join them for lunch (autogr.)
/194 Ibid., 1 Oct. – on a child of two and a half years, the child of an employee; mentions JE; on the successor chosen by Karpeles (autogr.)
/195 Anglo-Swedish Society, announcement of a supper and talk to be held on 9 Oct.; Mrs Elin Lauritzen will speak on ‘The Swedish People and the Law’. 2 leaves (tp.)
/196 Ibid., 11 Oct. – on the document circulated by Council, which is first class; she wrote to GCT; mentions JE; encloses a picture as a talisman. 4 pages (autogr.)
.1 Postcard of Loch-an-Eilean and Castle (printed) [enclosed with /5/196]
/197 EJL to [WBF?], 16 Oct. – was delighted to hear about Council; discusses the long term objects and the fate of the majority; on WBF driving up to call on Mikel; assumes that they cannot discuss RAI in front of his companion (autogr.)
/198 Notes on Dr Werner Kissling (tp.)
/199 EJL to WBF, 10 Nov. – on a Reindeer Company meeting; on the RAI; thanks him for his notes; shall not ‘spoil’ the copy with her notes; on the book on ‘Society’; mentions FCB and his defeatism; discusses Rhodesia; mentions Mary W. (tp. with autogr. additions)
/200 R. Reeve, William Clowes & Sons, Ltd. to EJL, ibid. – on envelopes for Man Christmas cards (tp.)
/201 EJL to [WBF?], pre-16 Nov. – asks about his availability on 16 Nov. for Reindeer Company AGM, and on 5 or 7 Dec. (autogr.)
/202 Minutes of the Tenth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Reindeer Company Limited, held on 16 Nov. 2 leaves (tp.)
.1 EJL, nd – notes on dates of Reindeer Company AGM and Reindeer Council meeting (autogr. note)
/203 EJL to WBF, 26 Nov. – note headed ‘Allied Circle’; on going without being accompanied by a member; asks him to return programme (autogr.)
/5/204 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – Minutes of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting held on 7 Dec. 1962 (tp.)
/205 Ibid., nd – Minutes of the Twenty-Seventh Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 7 Dec. 9 leaves (tp.)
/206 EJL to WBF, 14 Dec. – asks if he and BALC [Bryan Cranstone] are reading ‘this’; she could send her issues (autogr. note)
/207 Ibid., 17 Dec. – has ordered ‘The Dawn of Civilisation’; if he is seeing it she should be grateful for a resumé of his ‘approach’; mentions Geoffrey Hudson; on her programme in the coming weeks (autogr.)
/208 [EJL], early 1963 – note on Basil Davidson (tp.)
/209 Financial Times, 1963 – ‘Dark Bronzes’ (newspaper cutting)
/210 Flyer advertising ‘The Ex-Slaves’ Account of their Bondage and Freedom’ by Charles H. Nichols (printed)
/211 British Psychological Society, nd – notice of lectures in Jan. 1963 (printed with autogr. notes by EJL)
/212 Nemzetör Hungarian Guardian, Feb. 1963 (newspaper)
.1 EJL to WBF, nd – asks if he receives this (autogr. note)
/213 Daily Telegraph, 11 Feb. 1963 – ‘Afro-Asian Strains and Stresses’ (newspaper cutting)
/214 British Psychological Society, nd – notice of lectures in Feb. (printed with autogr. note by EJL)
/215 EJL to [WBF?] 2 Mar. – JCT has told her that Herskovits has died; Fortes had received a letter from Bascom; hopes that he will do the obituary; asks that he have the enclosed copied and returned to her (autogr. card)
/216 Daily Telegraph, 8 Mar. – ‘Mountain World’ (newspaper cutting)
/217 Ibid., 8 Apr. – ‘Picking Kenya to Pieces’ by Elspeth Huxley (newspaper cutting)
/5/218 EJL to WBF, 9 Apr. 1963 – as soon as he reads the enclosed, asks that he return it with explanations; on Weaver and Digby; Judy tells her that AIR and Elspeth Huxley have been carrying on a dog-fight over the future of Kenya in the E. African press; she leaves Aviemore on 22 Apr.; it is lucky that there are still people who tell her what is going on; refers to GCT leaving (autogr.) [phot. 115779-115781]
/219 Notice of the Frazer Lecture by Kenneth Lindsay Little on 6 May (printed slip with autogr. note by EJL)
/220 The Times, 22 Apr. – notice regarding Dr Alfred Métraux (newspaper cutting)
/221 S.R. Burstein to EJL, 9 May – apologises for not writing; refers to her question about Lethbridge; refers to Lethbridge’s review in Man; refers to his[?] own essay-review of witchcraft literature in the Margaret Murray Festschrift number of Folklore; on the ‘Study of Society’ being replaced by a volume which does not contain her Folklore contribution; asks if she has thought of publishing it by itself (autogr.)
/222 EJL to WBF, nd – asks if he knows who writes the ‘Country Diary’ in the Guardian; there was a notice mentioning reindeer on 13 May (autogr. note with autogr. reply by WBF)
[No number 223]
/224 Ibid., 20 May – on letters from GCT [not held]; on Zeuner; mentions his book ‘A History of Domesticated Animals’ with a chapter on reindeer; discusses possible names to review the book[?]; on the reference in the book to the reindeer experiment; he [Zeuner] made arrangements to come to Aviemore but never came; would welcome details about Métraux; asks if he is ever going to write a history of the RAI; has a collection of correspondence; alludes to his not maintaining a normal correspondence; mentions Nichols; discusses Michael de Navarro; on S.C. Coles of Kegan Paul; on a wine party at the RAI; if WBF can tell her anything about his successor she would be interested; mentions B.A.L.C.; asks about Mr Boston; on Barbara Ward; on John having lunch with him. 6 pages (autogr.)
/225 BJK to EJL, 30 May – thanks her for copy of the Bride-Price Memorandum; shall be pleased to keep it (tp. with autogr. note by EJL)
/226 New Society, No. 37, 13 June – Lucy Mair, ‘Divide and rule in the new countries?’ (newspaper page)
/5/227 Ibid., 13 June 1963 – Raymond W. Mack, ‘Desegregation and the Frustrated White Rats’ (newspaper page, some missing)
/228 EJL to [WBF?], 19 June – on H.J. Braunholtz; was shocked to find that he was gone and ashamed that she had sent no flowers or telegram to his widow; must write but would appreciate a hint about the circumstances (autogr.)
/229 Ibid. to WBF, 21 June [as per postmark] – congratulates him on ‘African Art’; on a memo[?]; on deviation from Const[itution]; discusses Dr Vinigi Grottanelli who rang up; directed him to the Haddon photographic collection; on Swedish Lapps and Arctic generally, referred him to Polar Photos; was sorry to miss him (autogr.)
/230 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 1 July – ‘Receipts and Payments Account for the year ending 30th June 1963’ (tp.)
/231 Cambridge Independent Press, 12 July – ‘Missionary Made a Tribal “Chief” on Retirement’ (newspaper cutting, marked ‘for Bernard?’ by EJL)
/232 Daily Telegraph, 22 July – ‘The Charming Fighter’ (newspaper cutting)
/233 EJL to WBF, 19 Sept. – on the Reindeer Company Limited AGM and Reindeer Council meeting; asks when he will be away between now and 15 Dec.; on Sir Frederick who is getting weaker; Mrs de Navarro has maintained her interest in reindeer; mentions her son Michael; mentions Sir Samuel Hoare; Mardon showed them the reindeer in Aug.; on Vice-Chairmanship; on the Secretaryship of the Associates[?] of Newnham College; is working through papers destroying a lot; [near illegible]; has ordered copies of Time. 5 pages including note on envelope (autogr.)
/234 Ibid., 2 Oct. – on dates for meetings; refers to his letter of 29 Sept. [not held]; outlines WBF’s itinerary between Nov. 1963 and Feb. 1964; on Sir Frederick being ill; Mikel saw the herder P. Mardon in hospital yesterday; the post has been filled; on going to Sweden for Mikel’s mother’s funeral (tp.)
/5/235 Ibid., 3 Oct. 1963 – is grateful that he wrote out his comments on Africa; on ‘The Book’ which is appearing in German; on the Man editorial system; he has a ploy of ignoring communications which contain questions he does not want to answer; this is not the treatment she expects from old friends; she too get behind with correspondence but it gets answered if it is on ‘operational’ matters; she is devoting her talents in the service of another journal; discusses several points concerning WBF’s editorship of Man; on the ways she has been helpful to him[?]; offers to serve as adviser but has no reply; asks to meet Mr Boston but has no reply; asks for the names of the editorial advisers but has no reply; his willingness to attend Reindeer meetings is appreciated but the line connecting them as colleagues is getting frayed. 6 pages (autogr.)
/236 Brill’s Weekly, 5 Oct. – advertisement for ‘Sur les traces des derniers nomades’ by G. Mussio (printed cutting)
/237 EJL to WBF, 7 Oct. – on a magnificent production; has looked at many of the photos and read the blurb; will probably send John a copy for Christmas; hopes she may live to bring her Tungus something approaching the same tribute; gives him some reindeer news (autogr.)
/238 Ibid., nd – on her subscription to New Society ending 10 Oct.; has not been through most of the issues received; will send him excerpts; it is worth someone ‘in their circle’ going through it weekly (autogr. note)
/239 14 Oct. – Report of the Auditors to the Members of the Reindeer Company Limited; Balance Sheet as at 28 Feb. 1963; Revenue Account for the year ended 28 Feb. 1963. 3 leaves (tp.)
/240 EJL to WBF, 16 Oct. – thanks him for three letters [not held]; she asked about advisory editors for Man; gives her address in Sweden (autogr. note)
/241 Ibid., 25 Oct – she and Mikel are en route south, having shared in a moving ceremony for Mikel’s mother; describes the proceedings; the enclosure will probably seem pointless; but 11 months afterwards she has copied out some notes; he might as well have them; is particularly interested in Daniel’s journey; asks him to amend or comment; on central Asian stuff (autogr.)
/5/242 Ibid., nd – notes on the Annual Meeting of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 12 Nov. 1962; on apologies for absence; on Section B; Prof. Fortes reports as head of the anthropology department; on the Hayter committee; on publications; Prof. Clark reported on archaeology; on Dr Daniel’s trip. 3 pages (autogr.)
/243 The Reindeer Company Limited, 21 Nov. 1963 – notice of the Eleventh Annual General Meeting to be held on 13 Dec. 9 leaves (tp.)
/244 Ibid., 2 Dec. – ‘Calving on the Reindeer Reserve, Aviemore, 1963’. 2 leaves (tp.)
/245 Page from Cambridge University Reporter, 4 Dec. – Address to the University of Ibadan (printed)
/246 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 9 Dec. – Agenda for the Twenty-Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Council; Agenda for the Fourteenth Annual Meeting to be held on 13 Dec. 2 leaves (tp.)
/247 Reindeer Company Limited, nd – Agenda for the Annual General Meeting on 13 Dec. (tp.)
/248 EJL to WBF, c. 27 Feb. 1964 – sends a copy of a review of ‘Nigerian Images’ in Country Life; on the reviewer of travel books in the Geographical Magazine; refers to Boston and T.K. Armstrong reviews; asks if he can get A.W. Lawrence for an RAI lecture; asks him to let her know whether BJK is asking Chang Te K’uu[?} to review the Peking book for Man; gives him some reindeer news (autogr.)
.1 Review of ‘Nigerian Images’ from Country Life, 27 Feb. 1964 (printed page)
.2 Reviews from the Geographical Magazine, Jan. 1964. 2 leaves (printed)
/249 EJL to WBF, 11 Apr. – this is a summary of things to write about; on her plans to go to Savoie; on RAI matters; on the death of […?] Dixon (autogr.)
/250 EJL to WBF, 1 July – on the plate of the Mongol violin; on Mrs Jenkins; on the history of JRAI; what WBF says about H. is most helpful; discusses H.’s recent action regarding election (autogr.)
/251 Ibid., ibid. – on Prof. Ian Whitaker (autogr.)
/5/242 Gertrude Caton Thompson to EJL, 13 July 1964 – returns WBF’s letter; thinks it is devoted of her to stand again and wishes her luck; thinks it was mistaken of WBF to approach Huntingford; his outlook is ‘don’t take sides’; she is glad she retired when she did; Dorothy was touched by Jeffery’s brilliant address; mentions Squiz; refers to Aves’ failure; is just back from Switzerland (autogr.)
/253 The Scotsman, 14 July – ‘“Mad Chuckles” in Madrid’ (newspaper cutting)
/254 EJL to [WBF?], 17 July – on GCT; on showing her an extract of WBF’s letter, now returned; hopes there will not be reprisals; on her discretion; she refused to stand for renomination to the NC Associates; shall answer this [letter] (autogr.)
/255 WBF to [EJL], 11 Dec. – would be willing to sign anything that looks as if he would understand it (tp. with autogr. note by EJL, calling the response ‘the essential Bill’)
/256 Sunday Telegraph, 30 Oct. 1966 – ‘Spying with Love’ (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/257 EJL to WBF, 8 Nov. – thanks him for standing by her and Mary at the RAI Garden Party; on Bulmer’s lecture; asks if he is coming to the Reindeer annual [meeting]; she and MU going north 13-27 Nov. (autogr.)
/258 Ibid., 24 Nov. – would be interested in any ‘gen’ about A.S. Graham; discusses MSS relating to the RAI; suggests depositing some in a bank; asks if he can think of two persons who could be co-signatories with them; could deposit their letters from 1939 and Minutes of Council and Exec. Committee; on Reindeer Council matters (tp. with autogr. additions)
/259 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, 16 Dec. – Minutes of the Thirty-First Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 16 Dec. 10 pages (tp.)
/260 Sister M. Bernard to EJL, 5 Mar. 1967 – thanks her for sending the report; mentions WBF; asks how she is; asks after Mr Utsi; they really enjoyed the day (autogr.)
/5/261 EJL to WBF, 7 Mar. 1967 – she let them read App. I to the Reindeer Council meeting of 6 Jan. 1966; perhaps they will achieve more than she did towards a slimmer product; mentions Sister B.; on the insurance and storage of semen[?]; on his lecture; was in London with MU seeing medics. 2 leaves including note on envelope (autogr.)
/262 Brotherston & Bee to ibid., 20 Apr. – on a further issue of shares in the Reindeer Company Limited; would be glad to hear as to the number of these share he would wish to apply for; the final allocation will be made on 4 May (tp.)
/263 Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – copies of certain letters from and to the Forestry Commission during 1967, concerning reindeer on ski slopes. 4 pages (tp.)
/264 Ibid., 1 July – Report by the Hon. Treasurer for the Year ending 30 June 1967; Balance Sheet 30 June 1967; Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 30 June 1967. 3 leaves (tp.)
/265 Ibid., nd – Agenda for the 18th Annual Meeting to be held on 15 Dec. (tp.)
/266 Ibid., 4 Dec. – Agenda for the Thirty-Second Ordinary Meeting of the Council, to be held on 15 Dec. 2 leaves (tp.)
/267 EJL to WBF, 13 Dec. – thrilled to hear of his walk to church and transfer to London Clinic; hopes MWP has time to send her a note (autogr. note)
/268 Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – Curriculum Vitae of Ethel M. Cruickshank, nominated for membership of the Council. 3 pages (tp.)
/269 EJL to WBF, 5 Jan. 1968 – Eileen Fortune sent the enclosed; mentions his illness; mentions Mary Wood; note added 26 Feb. – is leaving for Reindeer House (autogr.)
/270 Ibid., 30 Jan. – thanks him; mentions the results being gracious; it is fortunate that he picked up a rumour; on scotching the rumours; it was not pneumonia but a virus flu; on his neck and thyroid; on his weight loss; on Mikel’s health; discusses MWP; on Mikel inviting WBF to stay; on giving champagne to the doctors and nurses. 5 pages (autogr.; near illegible)
/5/271 EJL, – review of ‘Beyond the Urals’, by Violet Conolly, from Royal Central Asian Journal, Feb. 1968. 4 pages (offprint)
/272 The Reindeer Company Limited, 7 Feb. – Report 1966-67. 5 pages (tp.)
/273 EJL to WBF, 3 Mar. – wonders when he is coming up for a holiday; wonders whether he has read the Annual Report; on Louis’ niece Mrs Trotter (autogr. pc)
/274 Ibid., 11 Mar. – on his putting Reindeer Council in his ‘Who’s Who’ entry; Croft and David James have not; Mikel’s heart is ‘dicky’ so she is driving him south in two days for treatment (autogr. note)
/275 Ibid., 26 May – she and Mikel are distressed at the trials WBF and his mother are undergoing; she asked Mary Wood to check that he had returned; refers to the appalling tragedy for BEBF; expects no reply but asks him to ring Mary Wood; on John and family; mentions the reindeer (autogr.)
/276 Ibid. to Lilian Fagg, 15 Sept. – on a card from WBF from Japan; hopes he or she will let her know when he is safe back; trusts BEBF continues to make progress (autogr. pc)
/277 Minutes of the Thirty-Third Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, held on 17 Jan. 1969 13 pages (tp.)
/278 18 Jan. – receipt for payment of Life Membership of the Reindeer Council for WBF (printed and autogr.)
/279 EJL to WBF, 1 Feb. – on WBF going away on 23 Jan.; on his Life Membership; on the reindeer Bill; refers to other reindeer (autogr. note)
.1 Cambridge Daily News, 2 Jan. – ‘Children as Teachers’ (newspaper cutting) [enclosed with /5/279]
/280 P.N. Hobson, 29 Dec. – ‘Experiments on the rumen function and other aspects of reindeer metabolism’. 4 leaves (tp.)
.1 Compliments slip from Mr Utsi (tp.)
/281 EJL to WBF, 20 Jan. 1970 – discusses the people present at a meeting; on the Minutes; asks for gen on Harrison; asks about printers; asks about Clare Croft (tp. with autogr. note)
/5/282 EJL to Miss L.A. Scotten, 20 Jan. 1970 – information about Harrisons, printing firm (tpc.)
/283 EJL to [WBF?], 21 Jan. – on Barbara Ward; asks about RAI (autogr.)
/284 The Press and Journal, 16 Mar. – ‘Off to England’ (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL referring to the Norfolk reindeer)
/285 EJL to WBF, 7 Apr. [as per postmark] – refers to Tom Pat[erson] and his wife and daughter; they had no idea of WBF’s illness or BEBF’s; was thrilled by WBF’s recovery; gives news of him; he has not seen as many reindeer as WBF[?] [near illegible]; mentions Sheila; asks if he has read the minutes (autogr. note)
.1 The Sunday Post, 29 Mar. – ‘Man Overboard! And Guess Who It Is’ (newspaper cutting, enclosed with /5/285)
/286 30 Sept. – The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Balance Sheet as at 30 June 1970. 3 leaves (tp.)
/287 EJL, 12 Dec. – Notice of the Thirty-Fifth Ordinary Meeting and Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (photocopy)
/288 [EJL] ‘to whom it may concern’, 24 Sept. 1971 – on a yellow Chinese panel; on the history of the item, bought by Henry Eichheim and his wife Ethel Roe Eichheim in Peking; two panels were received from a family friend of the Eichheims; gives details of the two panels (tp.)
/289 EJL to Brigadier Platt & Col. Cantlie, ibid. – asks that the ‘enclosed’ [/5/288] be kept in the personal possession of one of them; on one of the main objections to the panel going abroad; probably nothing has been stolen in any ordinary sense of the word; on national treasures; in a suitable institution in the United Kingdom the panel will bring more honour to China; would be willing to show the Cambridge panel to Museum directors; asks them to destroy this letter (tp. with autogr. additions)
/290 EJL to WBF, 20 May 1972 – on John Roe Lindgren; asks him to send copies of his £5 opus to her and to the L.s (autogr.)
/5/291 W.H. Dominy[?] to EJL, 14 June 1973 – on a financial matter; encloses details about himself; his Masonic interests could be mentioned verbally if necessary (photocopy)
/292 Biographical notes regarding W.L. Dominy (photocopy)
/293 EJL to WBF, 14 Aug. – discusses candidates; is circulating members of Council; mentions Q. Riley (autogr. note)
/294 Minutes of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd. held on 23 Nov. 1973. 5 pages (tp.)
/295 H.M. Dott & M.N.P. Utsi, ‘Artificial insemination of Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)’, from J. Zool., Lond., (1973), 170, 505-508 (offprint)
/296 28 Mar. 1974 – List of Members of the Reindeer Council. 3 leaves (tp.)
/297 Ibid., 27 Apr. 1975 – on the Reindeer Company AGM; refers to a photograph [see MS 501/1/127]; on an article in Man by T. Ingold; on Ingold (tp.)
/298 Ibid., 9 Sept. – on the Reindeer Company AGM; on Mikel’s health; on Vincent (tp. with autogr. note)
/299 WBF to EJL, 21 Oct. – on the Reindeer Company meeting on 21 Nov.; on the meeting the year before; is going to send her ‘The Tree of Life’; refers to his review of the book [see MS 500/14/310]; on Mikel’s health (tpc.)
/300 Mikel Utsi, 16 May 1976 – list of the Cairngorm reindeer yearlings (tp.)
/301 Ibid., 10 Jan. 1977 – list of the Cairngorm reindeer herd (tp.)
/302 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, nd – Minutes of the Forty-First Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council, held on 20 Jan. 16 pages (tp.)
/303 Ibid., nd – Minutes of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting, held on 20 Jan. (tp.)
/304 EJL to WBF, 17 Mar. – the ‘enclosed’ [not held] came out of her wartime Social Survey files; asks some questions; on the Pitt deal (autogr.)
/5/305 Catharina [Blomberg] to EJL, 15 May 1977 – refers to EJL’s Antarctic postcard [not held]; is glad to have been able to help; on printing cards; on a letter from Mrs Haddon[?]; on a postal strike in Sweden; on Swedish politics; encloses a copy of a catalogue of an exhibition at [Uppsala] University; on mistakes in the catalogue; on asking questions at the AGM of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities; refers to the AGM of the National Museum (autogr.)
/306 J. Shreeve, assistant to EJL, to ibid., 23 Sept. – on the Company AGM on 18 Nov. (autogr. pc)
/307 EJL to WBF, 6 Oct. – on the date of the AGM; on the blocks of Morienhur; on Mikel’s health (autogr. pc)
/308 EJL, 13 Dec. – Notice of the Forty-Second Ordinary Meeting and Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, to be held on 20 Jan. 1978 (tp.)
/309 Ibid. to WBF, 19 Dec. – Mikel has been out of hospital since 26 Nov.; on trapping mice; on a lady in Inverness who has taken an interest in reindeer hair; she wants details of uses; asks about the one-armed secretary at the RAI; refers to ‘Bead Embroidery’ by Joan Edwards; asks if she wrote a book on the use of hair in embroidery; on the Tungus tribes sewing with reindeer hair; she has sent the Prime Minister a reindeer calendar; on Elaine Binney (autogr.)
/310 TEA, Dec. – ‘Reindeer Husbandry in the USSR’. 2 leaves (tp.)
/311 The Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, list of those eligible for election for 1977-78 (tp.)
/312 J. Shreeve, 1978 – asks if he has visited the Sainsbury Centre at UEA; refers to his French book on African Sculpture; on EJL and Mr Utsi (autogr. pc)
/313 H.M. Dott, Jan. 1978 – ‘Report to the Reindeer Council of U.K. on research on reproduction in reindeer during 1977’. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/314 Cambridge Evening News, 5 Jan. – ‘Rowing Revolution Reaches Cambridge’ (newspaper cutting)
/5/315 P.N. Hobson, the Rowett Research Institute, to EJL, 5 Jan. 1978 [wrongly dated 1977] – refers to her letter [not held]; was sorry to hear that Mikel was ill; on his family; gives some information for the Reindeer Council; has done no research on red deer or reindeer for the last few years; is doing some work on reindeer in South Georgia; on reprints of his work; the work seems to have generated a large amount of interest; still retains an interest in deer or reindeer; mentions Dr Eadie, the protozoologist in his Department and his work. 2 leaves (tp.)
/316 EJL to WBF, 6 Jan. – asks if he is coming to the meeting on 20 Jan.; there will be no supper; hopes to be on the road home with Mikel by 7 pm; there should be a good turn-out; a Friday suits most people; on David James; she hopes Members of Council show spirit in defending the viability of reindeer; on other Reindeer Council matters[?]; on his testamentary provisions regarding his papers. 5 pages (autogr.)
/317 EJL, 9 Jan. – Agenda for the Forty-Second Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom to be held on 20 Jan. (tp.)
/318 Ibid. to WBF, 12 Jan. – asks about his papers; is glad he can come to the meeting; mentions Michael Ayrton; lunching formally in town is out for Mikel; had J.K. Smith to keep Mikel company; on taking her to the University Arms; Mikel is weak as a kitten; will put Ayrton notes on a separate page [/5/411] (autogr.)
/319 Ibid., ibid. – describes a Michael Ayrton painting of a shepherd with a lamb round his neck; it was bought by Margaret Fisher in 1953-54 as a present for Mikel Utsi; it is in mint condition; describes a plan to make the painting accessible; on bringing it to London; asks WBF to discuss the arrangements with Vincent and herself on 20 Jan. (autogr.)
/320 Ibid., nd – makes an inquiry on behalf of Mikel; he wants to sell the Michael Ayrton painting which Margaret Fisher gave him; on bringing it south; asks if it would be of interest to Christie’s (autogr.)
/321 nd – Agenda for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council to be held on 20 Jan. (tp.)
/322 Mikel Utsi, 16 Jan. – the Cairngorm reindeer herd (photocopy)
/323 Sunday Times, 24 Sept. – ‘Museum drops music deal after muddle with union’ (newspaper cutting with autogr. note from EJL to WBF, asking for information)
/5/324 EJL to WBF, 27 Sept. 1978 – asks about Anna Panes’[?] papers; asks about H.J. Braunholtz’s brothers; asks if he wrote any of the obituary notices (photocopy of a business card for H.J. Braunholtz, with autogr. notes added)
/325 William Brotherston to ibid., 22 Mar. 1979 – on shares in the Reindeer Company; shares are being issued to Mr Vincent Utsi and Mr Mikel Utsi; it is necessary to advise all shareholders of the issue of new shares; would be obliged if he will write confirming his approval (tp.)
/326 22 Sept. – the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Balance Sheet as at 30 June. 2 leaves (tp.)
/327 Minutes of the Forty-Fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, held on 17 Jan. 1980. 13 pages (tp.)
/328 Ibid., Appendices. 15 pages (tp.)
/329 4 Feb. – list of the Members of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/330 EJL to WBF, 10 Feb. – on Lady Bowden, who remembers him fondly from Bournemouth; he should dine at Lucy Cavendish [College]; it is high time he came to Sunbourn; is employing a staff member of the University Library to go through her letters to WBF and interleave them with his; then there will be a history of the RAI 1939-45; WBF should then spend some time going through and destroying anything too indiscreet; on placing the letters in limited-access University Library archives; hopes he has made his will; asks what will happen to his papers (autogr.)
/331 Ibid., 4 Apr. – refers to Arthur Spencer’s letter [not held]; BEBF was unable to identify John R. Lindgren’s Nigerian artefact; on their letters which have been filed chronologically; her research assistant is Raymond Scrivens; suggests she send him copies for comment and approval; access will be subject to the approval of both of them in their lifetimes; his good will is needed; on a letter of his from 1967; mentions Hibbert; thinks he will find it Great Fun (autogr.)
/332 The Observer, 4 May – ‘Vance: Advice and Consent’ (newspaper cutting with autogr. note by EJL)
/5/333 EJL to WBF, 8 May 1980 – on the Royal Society of Arts; has sent various documents to Col. J.P. Grant of Rothiemurchus; on finding a third proposer; hopes he will attend to this promptly; Phyllis Bowden is longing to see him (autogr.)
/334 Ibid., ibid. – this may accompany a letter from Col. J.P. Grant [/5/335], relating to her candidature for the Royal Society of Arts; asks him to act without delay (autogr.)
/335 Col. J.P. Grant to ibid., 12 May – encloses EJL’s application form which he is sponsoring for fellowship of the RSA; understands that WBF has agreed to sign the form and to obtain a third sponsor (autogr.)
/336 WBF to Maysie [Webb], 18 May – the Laird of Rothiemurchus has proposed EJL for Fellowship of the RSA; asks if she would be the third sponsor; gives details of EJL; refers to cuts at the BM (autogr.)
/337 The Lady Bowden, President, Lucy Cavendish College, to WBF, 4 June – was delighted to have a message from him via EJL; asks when he is coming to Cambridge; encloses a copy of the prospectus and leaflet on the undergraduate programme; on Dr Crawford, her librarian who is looking for a job; he might know of something going in the museum world; encloses a note about her expertise and experience (tp.)
.1 Biographical notes about Dr Crawford (tp.) [enclosed with /5/337]
.2 Booklet about Lucy Cavendish College (printed) [enclosed with /5/337]
.3 Leaflet about ibid. (printed) [enclosed with /5/337]
.4 Additional information about Lucy Cavendish College (tp.) [enclosed with /5/337]
/338 R.M. Clyde, General Manager, Cairngorm Chairlift Company Ltd., to EJL, 11 June – the chairman Lord Leven and directors were upset not to discuss the Lurchers Development with her; invited her to meet for lunch on 27 June (photocopy)
/339 EJL to WBF, 15 June – refers to Portugal supplement [not held]; on arrangements for him meeting Lady Bowden; Mrs Edkins came to settle mode of access to their 1940-41 Wartime Soc[ial] Survey papers; since she spoke to him, things have hotted up; on having lunch with Lord Leven; mentions John RL[?] (autogr.)
/5/340 Julie Owen, Secretary to Lady Bowden, to ibid., 27 June 1980 – confirms that Lady Bowden expects him on 3 July at Lucy Cavendish College (tp.)
/341 Mary Wood to ibid., 7 Nov. – on his accident; EJL is sending him some champagne; mentions Marie Lawrence; she may try to visit him; is sorry she will not see him at the Reindeer Company meeting (autogr.)
/342 nd – speech made by Col. Andrew Croft at the Annual General Meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd. held on 21 Nov. (tp.)
/343 EJL, 1 Dec. – Notice of the Forty-Fifth Ordinary Meeting and Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, to be held on 16 Jan. 1981 (tp.)
/344 TEA, 9 Jan. 1981 – ‘Reindeer Industry in the USSR’ (tp.)
/345 EJL to WBF, 13 Jan. – ‘the same’ and Appendices have gone to Woodstock Road, Oxford (autogr. note)
/346 EJL, 16 Jan. – on a Resolution to be considered at the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on 16 Jan. (tp.)
/347 H.M. Dott, 16 Jan. – Report to Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/348 Andrew [Croft] to ibid., 20 Nov. 1981 – refers to WBF’s letter [not held] on his [Croft’s] retirement as Chairman of the Reindeer Company; hopes to attend the meeting on 28 Nov.; mentions Julia (autogr.)
/349 nd – Minutes of the Thirty-Third Annual General Meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd., held on 13 July 1985. 9 leaves (tp.)
/350 EJL to WBF, 18 Sept. – on his buying shares; on others who have bought none (autogr. note)
/351 Nov. – Minutes of the Fiftieth Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom held on 15 Nov. 13 pages (tp.)
/352 The Reindeer Company Ltd. Directors’ Report for year ended 5 Apr. 1986 – Appendix – Minute of Agreement between Highlands and Islands Development Board and the Reindeer Company Ltd. 3 leaves (photocopy)
/353 June – ‘What’s On’ in Spey Valley and Aviemore Centre [reindeer mentioned on p. 14] (printed booklet)
/5/354 Daily Mail, 7 June 1986 – ‘Reindeer are radioactive’ (newspaper cutting)
/355 EJL, 16 July – Notice of the Fifty-First Ordinary Meeting and Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting to be held on 24 Oct. (tp.)
/356 Ibid., 18 July – Notice that the Thirty-Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Reindeer Company Ltd. will be held on 27 Sept. (tp.)
/357 Guild & Guild to WBF, 2 Sept. – encloses a Certificate in his name for 70 shares in the Reindeer Company Ltd. (tp.)
.1 Certificate of shares in the Reindeer Company held by WBF (printed and autogr.)
/358 EJL to WBF, 4 Sept. – on the meeting on 27 Sept.; on people who are coming; asks if he is coming (autogr. note)
/359 17 Sept. – the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Report by the Honorary Treasurer for the year ending 30 June (tp.)
/360 18 Sept. – the Reindeer Company Ltd., Report by the Directors to the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Shareholders to be held on 27 Sept. 21 leaves (tp.)
/361 22 Sept. – the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, Balance Sheet as at 30 June (tp.)
/362 nd – ibid., Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 30 June (tp.)
/363 V. Utsi, Oct. – ‘Report of the Effects of the Tjernobyl Nuclear Accident on the Reindeer in Sweden’. 4 leaves (photocopy)
/364 Oct. – list of Members of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom (tp.)
/365 Ian Whitaker to the Editor, the Cambridge Review, 13 Oct. – on ‘Some Small Harvest’, the memoirs of the ninth Disney Professor of Archaeology, Prof. Glyn Daniel; was dismayed to see several distinguished scholars the focus of derogatory remarks; his three undergraduate supervisors, Grahame Clark, Reo Fortune and EJL, are savaged; places on record that each of these proved excellent teachers; they offered inspiration and wisdom (photocopy with autogr. comment by EJL)
/5/366 EJL, 13 Oct. 1986 – Agenda for the Fifty-First Ordinary Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, to be held on 24 Oct. (tp.)
/367 nd – Agenda for the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, to be held on 24 Oct. (tp.)
/368 Arthur Spencer, nd – ‘Survey of Reindeer Events in Swedish Lapland in 1985 and 1986’, for the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom [Meeting], 24 Oct. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/369 23 Sept. 1987 – The Reindeer Company Ltd. Directors’ Report for year ended 5 Apr. 1987. 9 leaves (photocopy)
/370 Minutes of the Thirty-Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Reindeer Company Ltd., held on 26 Sept. 3 leaves (tp.)
/371 Spicer & Oppenheim, 5 Apr. 1988 – the Reindeer Company Ltd., Accounts. 12 leaves (tp.)
/372 E.M. Utsi, 15 July – Notice that the Thirty-Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Reindeer Company will be held on 13 Aug. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/373 John R. Lindgren, 16 July – a note to Shareholders from a Director; on the Directors’ Report; on the shares of the late EJL (photocopy)
/374 Erica Utsi to WBF, nd – on the BBC rescreening ‘Reindeer Man’ on 3 Oct. (autogr. card)
/6 Undated Ethel John Lindgren Papers
/1 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on membership of the Reindeer Council; mentions Frank Ottley as a potential Hon. Treas. (autogr. note on compliments slip)
/2 Ibid. to WBF, nd – asks him to post hers to Marie Jahoda; has sent Whitaker’s Appeal to MWS; mentions Dyson Hudson (tp. note)
/3 Ibid., nd – on asking the British Sociological Association for an advert of their journal in Man; a list of their articles would be an eye-opener for some Council members; mentions Schap[era]; is sorry she missed her cue; it was wiser not to be too bloc-ish (autogr.)
/6/3.1 WBF to [EJL?], nd – on her asking in Council who came out highest of the younger people (autogr. snippet) [attached to /6/3]
/4 WBF to Sir Frederick [Whyte], nd – on a matter regarding the proposed constitution of the Reindeer Council, which he had intended to put before the Council at the last meeting; on members making a contribution to the running costs of the Council; suggests a guinea a year. 2 leaves (tp.)
/5 Ibid., nd – ibid. 2 leaves (autogr. draft)
/6 EJL to [WBF?], nd – discusses the Reindeer Council Constitution; on the re-election of the President; on the role of Technical Adviser; on the choice between ‘Council’ and ‘Society’ (autogr.)
/7 Ibid , 21 Dec. [?year] – on a television programme featuring Mikel; asks him to go to Television House and ask to see the programme; suggests he say that he is representing the Reindeer Council (autogr.)
/8 Ibid., nd – thanks him for telegram (autogr.)
/9 Ibid., nd – has no reason to suppose they are preparing to exploit the Date point[?]; mentions Wilson (autogr. card)
/10 Ibid., nd – on Reindeer Council business; on Man; suggests he think nine times before leaving for USA (autogr.)
/11 Ibid., nd – on David Philip, who offered to write on Arabs and Lapps for Man (autogr. card)
/12 Ibid., nd – on Trevor; on his adopting a child (autogr. note)
/13 Ibid. to WBF, 25 Oct. [?year] – on a lunch invitation (autogr. card)
/14 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – on New Guinea (autogr. note)
/15 Ibid. to WBF, nd – asks about Man blocks (autogr. note)
/16 Ibid., nd – on BJK (autogr. note)
/17 Notice of the appointment of Miss A.I. Richards as Smuts Reader (printed)
/6/18 Notice of the publication of ‘Peasants in the Pacific’ by Adrian C. Mayer (printed with autogr. notes by EJL and WBF, on Mayer)
/19 EJL to WBF, nd – asks him to read and return; on Stone being made a Professor (autogr. note)
/20 ‘A “Technical Hitch” in the Buganda Offer’ (newspaper cutting)
/21 ‘Snowflakes are Vibrant’ (newspaper cutting)
/22 Postcard of reindeer (printed)
/23 ‘The man who put reindeer at the bottom of our glens’ (newspaper cutting)
/24 ‘Claus Encounters of a Reindeer Man’ (newspaper cutting)
/25 Biographical information about Torsten Berg. 2 leaves (photocopy)
/26 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on articles she and Mikel might write; on making an appeal to friends (autogr.)
/27 EJL to [WBF], nd – has suggested this person to BJK as reviewer (autogr. note)
/28 Ibid., nd – headed ‘Notes’; on Coghlan’s letter; on the Viking Dinner; is seeing films and slides with Cranstone[?]; congratulates him on his new adherents[?]; discusses Freedman; discusses L[ucy] Mair; on the Annual Report; other news. 6 pages (autogr.)
/29 Note of the name and address of Miss Mary Holsworth; mentions her work on Africa; on a German edition (autogr.)
/30 Flyer for ‘Die Voelker Afrikas’ (printed) [/6/29 cut out from this]
/31 EJL to [WBF?], nd – N.N. Poppe could have sent anything [WBF] has not got (autogr. note)
/32 Ibid., nd – note headed ‘J.J.’; mentions three troubadours; the third stopped her getting another job; the A pair are deep-dyed (autogr.)
/33 EJL to WBF, nd – Meyer is marrying an American with two children; does not know whether she comes from Stanford University (autogr.)
/6/34 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – on a correction to the Minutes; mentions Joan Edwards (autogr. card)
/35 Ibid., nd – recommends W.H. Fogel on Joseph Needham’s work, and Braidwood on Gordon Childe. 2 leaves (autogr. notes)
/36 Ibid. to WBF, nd – Mikel thinks he has taken Paine’s letter; he will expect ‘research directives’ (autogr. note)
/37 EJL[?] to [WBF?], nd – headed ‘re J. & WBF & EJL[?]’; is not offended; is not justifying herself; is giving him the background for future reference (autogr. note)
[No number 38]
/39 EJL to [WBF?], nd – headed ‘TEA’; on their son Michael; he will be lecturing in Bergen[?] [near illegible] (autogr. note)
/40 E.G. Parrinder, review of ‘Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion’ by T.C. Lethbridge (printed with EJL’s autogr. comments on the review)
/41 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on Donald Macrae’s ‘Ideology and Society’; on an Observer extract; on putting Jacquetta in her place. 2 leaves (autogr. note)
/42 Cutting on J. Soustelle, ‘Daily life of the Aztecs’ (printed with autogr. note by EJL)
/43 Cutting on W. Kloosterboer, ‘Involuntary labour since the Abolition of slavery’ (printed)
/44 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on inviting D.V. Conolly to the Garden Party; thinks she should see the ‘bear garden’ sooner or later; ACCRA is the right opening; on introducing her to Schap; gives him her phone number. 2 leaves (autogr. note)
/45 Cutting on Kenneth Jackson, ‘Language and History in Early Britain’ (printed with autogr. notes by EJL)
/46 WBF to [EJL], nd – slip torn from a letter; mentions the ‘reformative tone’ of her recommndations (autogr., with autogr. note in reply by EJL)
/47 EJL to WBF, nd – on Mrs Hildeman; he will have to place her ‘fairly well’; is staying in the Great Northern (autogr. note)
/6/48 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – on Mrs Mary A. and the Wartime Soc. Survey; mention Tom H.’s Mass Observation; C. is rather like that; mentions Sir John and Elizabeth Shea; discusses the Hon. Secretary’s suggestion; discusses other people connected with the RAI. 2 leaves (autogr.)
/49 Ibid., nd – asks if ‘M. Willson’ is Miss or Mrs (autogr. note)
/50 Ibid., nd – asks him to let her have something back, with comments (autogr.)
/51 Ibid., nd – note on Man (autogr.)
/52 Ibid., nd – note on Stewart, a Mormon and hypnotist; he got into trouble when he ‘did his stuff’ on a Malay royal and could not bring the man round again (autogr. card)
/53 Ibid. to WBF, nd – on ordering cards; had a discussion with Miss Lloyd (autogr. note)
/54 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – asks for details about M. Boston; on introducing him to her (autogr. card)
/55 Notes on ‘ERL’ [Edmund Ronald Leach] (tp.)
/56 EJL to WBF, nd – on arrangements for 21 July; will meet him with Ceceley Shaw; EJL’s guest will be Miss Margaret Fisher; she is the sister of Walter Fisher; is interested in primitive art (autogr. card)
/57 Review of Stanley Jeeves, ‘Land of the Sherpa’ (printed with autogr. notes by EJL; damaged)
/58 [Mary Wood], nd – notes on Canberra University; on the Petrov case; on selling wool; on their correspondent in America. 2 leaves (autogr. with autogr. note by EJL, referring to ‘Indian Army MRA man’)
/59 EJL, nd – notes on various people, none named (tp.)
/60 WBF to EJL, nd – thanks her for letting him see Utley’s letter about ‘statecraft’ [not held]; refers to his own irreverent and ill-considered critique; on his sense of English history; discusses Utley’s book; mentions Sanderson (autogr. draft, unfinished)
/61 EJL, note mentioning Vansittart; mentions WBF and Feilden (autogr.)
/6/62 Alice Manners to WBF, nd – refers to an invitation to lunch with him in June; she enjoyed her tour through the Museum; would like to show him the collections in Denver, Colorado; her visit to England enriched her life and she is grateful to EJL’s friends for making it so interesting (autogr. Christmas card)
/63 Peter Uten[?] to EJL, nd – on acquiring a room in college; his old tutor will be available tomorrow to discuss the ‘red menace’; had lunch with a dull and virtuous economist; is now in a condition to comment on WBF’s memorandum; gives his comments on WBF’s piece on Sanderson’s book [see MS 497/3/84.1]. 10 pages (autogr.)
/64 Roger Marvell, ‘The London Museums’ (newspaper cutting)
/65 EJL to [WBF?], nd – refers to the Akka mountains, where the Utsi paterfamilias alighted; on the Utsijokk river (autogr. pc)
/66 WBF to a newspaper editor[?], nd – on Korea and China (autogr. draft)
/67 Postcard depicting reindeer of the slopes of Cairngorm, Inverness-shire (printed)
/68 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on Erixon; on Jack ringing up; on his address (autogr. card)
/69 Ibid., nd – on Reindeer Council business (autogr. card)
.1 Ibid. – on duplicating his summons to shareholders (autogr. note)
/70 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on Reindeer Council business; mentions the Loyal Address (autogr. card)
/71 Ibid., nd – on the Loyal Address (autogr. card)
/72 Ibid., nd – on news which she failed to convey; on Lethbridge; on Daniel; on Mandelbaum; on MF going to Chicago; he is getting an African readership (autogr. note)
/73 Ibid. to WBF, nd – on reviews; suggests he ask Lethbridge to review Ritchie’s book; asks if Lethbridge’s own book ‘The Painted Men’ has been obtained for review; suggests reviewers (autogr. note)
.1 Brill’s Weekly, advertisement for R.L.G. Ritchie, ‘The Normans in Scotland’ (printed cutting)
/6/74 EJL to [WBF?], nd – headed ‘The Proposed Lecturer’; on expenses; on the ‘post’; he has never been able to keep a job; on his book on Methods in Ethnology; he and his wife are probably settling in Italy (autogr.)
/75 Ibid., nd – refers to a previous letter; asks where John Blacking is now (autogr. card)
/76 Ibid., nd –on DL (autogr. note)
/77 WBF to [EJL?], nd – on a review of Bauer, Inkeles and Kluckhohn, ‘How the Soviet System Works’ (autogr. note)
/78 EJL to WBF, nd – on the egregious E. who did not take Ruth Herron to Karasjok; it was inexcusable[?] of him to take her away from the hosts found for her (autogr. note)
/79 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – on his suggestion; suggests he ask Jane Degras, editor of several volumes of Soviet documents at RIIA; on persuading her to join the RAI; asks him to ask her whether the French work on sociology which she translated has been published; if so, he could see that it is reviewed (autogr.)
/80 Ibid., nd – on the Register of Research; mentions the President (autogr.)
/81 Ibid., nd – on her guest Dr Mary Ann Nevins (autogr.)
/82 Ibid., nd – tells an anecdote about R.F. (autogr.)
/83 Ibid. to WBF, nd – Jane Degras is abroad for 2 or 3 months so her suggestion is postponed [see /6/79]; on her address in Sweden; on travel arrangements (autogr.)
/84 Daily Express, ‘Secretly I met Soustelle, the exile challenging de Gaulle’ (newspaper cutting)
/85 EJL to [WBF?], nd – would like to be informed promptly as soon as anything starts; this would ensure she is here and not in Aviemore; on the Interpreter; on WBF meeting someone for a meal; the situation can then be presented to the President; both are near one friend’s field of personal interests; on his brochures; on a major problem facing the Institute; [near illegible]. 4 pages (autogr.)
/86 Note of Ch’u T’Ung-Tsu, ‘Law and Society in Traditional China’ (printed slip with autogr. note by EJL)
/6/87 EJL, note on Blacking and Minns (autogr.)
/88 Ibid. to WBF, nd – on Werner Kissling who was at the Leeds University ‘Survey of Folklife’ in Apr.; he might ask him for a note in Man (autogr. card)
/89 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – note on ‘Comparative Studies in Society and History’ and Marjorie Topley, ‘Chinese Religious Associations in Singapore’ (autogr.)
/90 Ibid., nd – note referring to ‘feuding’ between Judy and Audrey R. (autogr.)
/91 WBF, nd – biographical notes (autogr.)
/92 EJL, nd – on the Central Asian Review (tp. and autogr.)
/93 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – should be glad to know whether he approves Sutcliffe and Corkill as nominees for Council; Hutchinson is retiring; on Armstrong (autogr. note)
/94 Ibid., nd – headed ‘Introductions for USA etc.’; on Prof. Ivor Richards; his wife is Dorothy Tilley (autogr.)
/95 Ibid., nd – on Indian books; mentions Dom Moraes, Mehta and Rajagopalachar; discusses a barrister [some torn away] (autogr.)
/96 Note of Edward Shils, ‘The Intellectual between Tradition and Modernity: the Indian Situation’ (printed with autogr. note by EJL) [water damaged]
/97 EJL to WBF, nd – on Mason; asks about Director; it is time she wrote a formal request for an inventory of their Czaplicka MSS; mentions Miss McHugh; mentions Hall (autogr. card)
/98 ‘Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Institute of Sociology’, incorporated 16 Dec. 1932 (printed booklet)
/99 Extract from the ‘Casuists’, 24 Oct. 1943. 2 leaves (tp.; leaf 1 missing)
/100 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on Prof. Collinder; asks him to arrange that if he should drop by the RAI he should be referred to WBF; hopes he raises some issues; mentions his friends Dr & Mrs T. Beckman; mentions Trevor (autogr. card)
/6/101 Ibid., nd – on lecture ideas; mentions Harris and Kellaghan; suggests asking Prof. D.G. MacRae (autogr. note)
/102 Ibid., nd – note asking him to bring back packets of Angel Food Cake mixture (autogr. card)
/103 The Reindeer Company Limited, order form for Reindeer Post Cards (tp.)
/104 EJL to Dr Utley, nd – refers to WBF’s explanation about a tail-less fox (autogr. note with autogr. note by T.E.U. added)
/105 […?], nd – text on conspiracy and Chinese Cs (tp.)
/106 Postcard of Reindeer Bull, Cow and Ox in the Cairngorms Inverness-shire (printed)
/107 EJL, note of the phone numbers of John, Judy, Jacqueline and David Richard Lindgren (autogr. card)
/108 Business card for W.J. Thorne (printed)
/109 Note referring to George Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, author of ‘The Czech Conspiracy: a Phase in the World-War Plot’ (tp. card with autogr. notes by EJL)
/110 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on a meeting of the Reindeer Council; Sir F. has bronchitis; Mrs Navarro will take the chair (autogr. note)
/111 EJL to WBF, nd – notes on Rodney Silverman of NIESR (autogr. card)
/112 EJL[?] to [WBF], nd – on his finding of Wadsworth; on getting him smoothly in (tp. card)
/113 EJL to WBF, nd – on Chinese studies and reviews; there are two more possible reviewers he could add to his list: Dr T.K. Cheng and Dr Twitchett; discusses both of these; on the booklet she showed him at Council (autogr.)
/114 Ibid. to [WBF?], nd – on a bibliography (autogr. note)
/115 Ibid., nd – refers to three short things he should read (autogr. note)
/116 Ibid., nd – on a ‘rival’ anthropological journal (autogr. note)
/6/117 Ibid., nd – mentions an Irishman named Barton; on Mrs Edmunds; on ERL; on MWS’s article in Boas’ memorial volume (autogr. note)
/118 ‘African Survey’, on a series of twenty programmes in study session (newspaper cutting with autogr. notes added)
/119 EJL, nd – Bibliography. 5 leaves (tp.)
.1 EJL to [WBF?], nd – believes he said she had not given him a copy of this (autogr. note)
/120 Phyllis [James], Board of Trade, to WBF, 18 Oct. [?year] – on a licence being issued for his Lapp clothing (autogr.)
/121 Text on ‘World War III’, headed with an epigram from Anna Comnena, ‘Alexiad’. 4 leaves (tp.)
/122 Compliments slip from Mr Utsi (printed and tp.) [phot. 115782-115784]
/123 Notice of a meeting of the Reindeer Company on 23 Nov. 1979 (photocopy with autogr. and tp. notes by EJL to WBF; very faded)
/124 Postcard depicting Mikel Utsi[?]
/125 Flyer with information about the Skolt Lapp Relief Fund (printed)
/126 Kroch’s & Brentano’s, Inc. nd – publicity for ‘Man’s Way’ by Prof. Walter Goldschmidt. 2 leaves (printed)
.1 EJL to [WBF?], nd – on trying Spier on this (autogr note)
/127 EJL to WBF, nd – note (autogr.; water damaged)
/128 Flyer advertising books; ‘The Natural History of Man in Britain’ by H.J. Fleure marked (printed)
/129 List of events in Mar. 1960, at the Allied Circle[?] (tp. with autogr. notes by EJL)
/130 WBF to [EJL], nd – on a new Anglo-American publication in which Fortes and Firth were to collaborate with Berkeley; EJL to WBF – asks for details when it starts (autogr. note)
/131 Invitation to a lecture by EJL on ‘Anglo-American Relations’ (printed card, in Swedish)
/6/132 EJL to WBF, nd – on the ‘enclosed’, clipped to this; on LSE; asks about Adrian Edwards [see MS 497/11/298]; on RC anthropological queries being sent to E-P (autogr. card)