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Add. MS b/35/51
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Copy letter from Oric Bates to Dr J. G. Frazer
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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1 item; typescript copy
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Hotel du Vesuve, Naples. Dated April 11, 1914 - Is sending his essay 'The Eastern Libyans' in thanks for his help, with apologies for its deficiencies, is working on the ethnology and archaeology of the Southern Mediterranean; has been excavating at Marsa Matruh (Paraetonium) west of Alexandria where he has found traces of archaic Libyan occupation, will send him the report which includes the customs of the local Bedawin; outside of the Service des Antiquités, Doctors Ludwig Borchardt, G. A. Reisner, and J. H. Breasted are the only ones he has told of the results of the expedition.