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Add. MS b/35/182
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Copy letter from J. G. Frazer to Edward Clodd
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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St. Keyne's Cambridge. Dated 23 March 1913 - Thanks him for his kind letter [about 'The Belief in Immortality'], which will help him 'bear with equanimity the thunder of the theological guns when they open fire on me'; declines the offer to send the book with the statistics of the weight of the soul [Duncan McDougall quoted in Edward Carpenter's 'Drama of Love and Death']; declines the invitation to visit, does not want to leave his wife. With a typescript footnote identifying Frazer's book.
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- Clodd, Edward (1840–1930) banker and popular anthropologist (Subject)
- Carpenter, Edward (1844-1929), campaigner for homosexual equality and socialist writer (Subject)
- Macdougall, Duncan (c 1866-1920) American doctor (Subject)
- Frazer, Lilly (? 1855-1941), writer and translator, wife of Sir James George Frazer (Subject)