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Add. MS b/37/39
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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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St. Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated 29 July 1909 - Is glad to hear he is safe back from Bunyoro, and is pleased with his description of the double system of taboos and totems for pastoral and agricultural sections of the people; advises him to pack the MSS well; has an account from [A.C.] Hollis on the Masai system of relationship, and by [Kenneth] Dundas on the Baringo district; the first volume of 'Totemism' is passed for press; was very busy in June with the Darwin celebration; Lilly has been ill; encloses an article on Howitt and Fison [not transcribed].
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- Roscoe, John (1861-1932) clergyman, anthropologist (Subject)
- Hollis, Sir Alfred Claud (1874–1961) Knight, colonial governor (Subject)
- Dundas, Kenneth (1882-1915) district commissioner of British East Africa Protectorate (Subject)
- Frazer, Lilly (? 1855-1941), writer and translator, wife of Sir James George Frazer (Subject)