Item 68 - Copy letter from C. W. Hobley to J. G. Frazer

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Add. MS b/36/68

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Copy letter from C. W. Hobley to J. G. Frazer

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  • c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)

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Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941), knight, social anthropologist and classical scholar
(1854-1941)

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Downie, Robert Angus (b 1905) biographer
(b 1905)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Nairobi, B.E.A. Dated 13/10/09 - Will be seeing Col. Roosvelt [Theodore Roosevelt] and will give him the booklet of queries [Frazer's anthropological questions]; suggests asking the Cambridge Press for the chapter on Masai marriage in his ['Ethnology of Akamba and other East African Tribes']; Hon. K. [Kenneth?] Dundas, studying the Bantu Kavirondo, has discovered the elders always kill the hereditary head chief when he is near his end.

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