Item 255 - Copy letter from P. Amaury Talbot to J. G. Frazer

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Add. MS b/37/255

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Copy letter from P. Amaury Talbot to J. G. Frazer

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  • c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)

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Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941), knight, social anthropologist and classical scholar
(1854-1941)

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Downie, Robert Angus (b 1905) biographer
(b 1905)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Iket, Nr. Calabar, Southern Nigeria, West Africa. Dated February 7th, 1913 - Has found much of interest in Southern Nigeria, which is about to pass away as missionaries and westerners exert their influence; tells the story of the 'lake of life' and a ritual to 'The God of the Year'; asks for Frazer's advice in how to proceed in collecting information; knows nothing of the reception of his book ['In the Shadow of the Bush'?].

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