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Add. MS b/37/102
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Copy letter from J. G. Frazer to John Roscoe
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer Spa. Dated 12 July 1915 - Describes their long holiday, in Cirencester, Edinburgh, Kenmore, and Strathpeffer; mentions that the Cambridge University Press has published a school edition of his wife's book 'La Maison aux Panonceaux'; mentions [James Hope] Moulton's loss [his wife Eliza's death] and Moulton's plan to spend a year with the Parsees in India; Macmillan is publishing a book by [Robert] Russell, ['The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India'] which will be valuable; wonders if he has seen [W. H. R.] Rivers' work 'The History of Melanesian Society' he has not read it yet; has improved his Hebrew on holiday.
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- Roscoe, John (1861-1932) clergyman, anthropologist (Subject)
- Frazer, Lilly (? 1855-1941), writer and translator, wife of Sir James George Frazer (Subject)
- Moulton, James Hope (1863-1917), biblical and Zoroastrian scholar (Subject)
- Moulton, Eliza Keeling (1867-1915) née Osborn, wife of James Hope Moulton (Subject)
- Russell, Robert Vane (1873-1915) British civil servant and ethnographer (Subject)
- Rivers, William Halse Rivers (1864-1922), psychologist and anthropologist (Subject)