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Add. MS b/36/343
Title
Copy letter from Arthur Stanley Pease to Sir J. G. Frazer
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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1 item; typescript copy
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The University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Dated 5th May 1919 - Sends notes on the third edition of 'The Golden Bough' on a variety of topics: the name used by Odysseus in the encounter with the Cyclops; piling pebbles on tombstones in Jewish cemeteries; stoning among Greeks and Romans, serpents casting their skin, use of the rod to discover water, the ceremony of the Ceri at Gubbio, referencing H. M. Bower's work 'The Elevation and Procession of the Ceri at Gubbio'.
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The original of this letter is housed as Add.Ms.c.59/73.
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Lacuna in typescript.