Letter from James George Frazer, Cambridge, to an unidentified male recipient, 1904 July 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

Concerning the theory that the utility of edible plants and animals as food is the basis for Totemism and stating that he does not think it explains the whole of totemism, as there are "a good many totems which are not edible objects"; acknowledging that "in Australia the great majority of totems are edible animals and plants", and referring the recipient to two articles Frazer has published on the subject in the Fortnightly Review, and further noting that "much new matter" has been pulished in Spencer and Gillen's "The northern tribes of Central Australia."