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Add. MS b/36/56
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Copy letter from J. G. Frazer to E. S. Hartland
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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Brick Court, Middle Temple, London E.C. Dated 11th February 1915 - Addresses the issue between Hartland and [John] Roscoe as 'one of degree than of principle' concerning whether to accept 'savage tradition'; has finished the index of GB, and is working on 'The Belief in Immortality' vol. II, and a volume on Folklore in the Old Testament; his wife has written 'La Maison aux Pananceux'; notes Cambridge is doing well, with [A. B.] Cook's 'Zeus' and [W. H. R.] Rivers' two big vols. on Melanesian society.
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Published in Ackerman, Robert, ed. 'Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2005].
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- Hartland, Edwin Sidney (1848–1927) folklorist (Subject)
- Roscoe, John (1861-1932) clergyman, anthropologist (Subject)
- Cook, Arthur Bernard (1868-1952) classical scholar and archaeologist (Subject)
- Rivers, William Halse Rivers (1864-1922), psychologist and anthropologist (Subject)
- Frazer, Lilly (? 1855-1941), writer and translator, wife of Sir James George Frazer (Subject)