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Add. MS b/36/82
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Copy letter from A. E. Housman to J. G. Frazer
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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1 item; typescript copy
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Trinity College. Dated 21 May 1913 - Describes the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin in Naples in 1897, with an illumination, the blowing of penny trumpets, falling asleep to the sound of barrel-organs, waked by dynamite rockets at 4, 'the only step possible beyond this is assassination, which accordingly takes place about peep of day. I forget now the number of the slain, but I think the average is eight or ten, and I know that in honour of my presence they murdered a few more than ususal'; encloses an extract about Satan in Scotland [not transcribed]; accompanied by a description of the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin in 1906 on Capri.