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Add. MS b/37/136
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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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1 Brick Court, Temple, London. E.C.4. Dated 7th July 1920 - Lists who he saw in Cambridge at the honorary degree ceremony: Arthur Balfour, the Ridgeways, [William?] Cox, A. B. Cook, Henry Jackson, who is frail; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; Sir Peter Mackie has given £3500 in total to the expedition; will send a copy of an article on his work among the Bahima in 'Man'; comments on the customs of the Banyoro; is interested in measurement of all kinds; have seen much of Malinowski; Lilly is much better and editing an anthology of recent French poetry for Oxford University Press, and has a big scheme in mind for developing French in Britain.
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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)
- Rivers, William Halse Rivers (1864-1922), psychologist and anthropologist (Subject)
- Malinowski, Bronisław Kasper (1884-1942) anthropologist (Subject)
- Balfour, Arthur James (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, Prime Minister and philosopher (Subject)
- Ridgeway, Sir William (1858–1926) Knight, classicist (Subject)
- Ridgeway, Lucy (d 1926) née Samuels, wife of Sir William Ridgeway (Subject)
- Cox, William Albert (1844-1923) theological scholar (Subject)
- Cook, Arthur Bernard (1868-1952) classical scholar and archaeologist (Subject)
- Jackson, Henry (1839-1921), classical scholar (Subject)
- Mackie, Sir Peter Jeffrey (1855-1924), knight, whisky distiller and writer (Subject)