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 ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V.

TO THE KING'S

MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

May it Please Your Majesty,

On behalf of the Folk-Lore Society I humbly beg leave to approach Your Majesty with an expression of the heartfelt sorrow which its members feel at the demise of their late gracious and beloved Sovereign His Majesty King Edward the Seventh.

This Society, established for the study of the traditions and modes of thought of all races of mankind, finds among the many and various peoples which are united under the British Crown a most fruitful source of materials for that study, and has had reason to know and appreciate the deep and widespread loyalty which His late Majesty evoked from all his subjects of every race and degree of culture.

Your Majesty has personally visited most of the British dominions beyond the seas, and in all has left a gracious impression which cannot but increase their sentiments of loyalty and devotion.

We rely with unabated confidence on the sympathy of Your Majesty and Your Royal Consort in all our efforts to promote a better understanding of the modes of thought of barbaric and uncultured peoples and classes, by those who are called upon to govern or have dealings with them.

We beg most respectfully to assure Your Majesty of the loyal devotion we entertain to Your Majesty's throne and person.

Signed on behalf of the Folk-Lore Society,

C. S. BuRNE, President. 22, Albemarle Street, May liik, 1910.