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No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, London E.C.4. Dated 26 February 1922 - Thanks him for the two papers, is glad he thinks Miss [Jessie] Weston has found the true key of the Holy Grail, is suspicious when the priest of Nemi pops up in books, 'especially when he is unmasked by a lady'; asks for the authority of the priest-king of Elele in Nigeria; has seen [John] Roscoe, who saw [Robert] Macalister and both conclude the original home of Egyptian and European civilisation will be found in the region of the African lakes; has had his bust done by [Émile] Bourdelle, of which he approves; mentions the kpelle of Liberia; asks if he has read [Edvard] Westermarck's new edition of 'History of Human Marriage' and asks his opinion of his attacks on Frazer.
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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)
- Weston, Jessie Laidlay (1850-1928) medievalist and folklorist (Subject)
- Roscoe, John (1861-1932) clergyman, anthropologist (Subject)
- Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1870-1950) Irish archaeologist (Subject)
- Bourdelle, Émile Antoine (1861-1929), French sculptor (Subject)
- Westermarck, Edvard Alexander (1862–1939) anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (Subject)