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Add. MS b/37/362
Title
Copy letter from W. J. Woodhouse to J. G. Frazer
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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1 item; typescript copy
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170 Walton Street, Oxford. Dated October 31, 1890 - Thanks him for his answer to his question about rivers in Messenia; is standing for the Craven Fellowship and has written a book on Messenian history and topography; describes his six weeks there: poor food, insects, and utter loneliness; returns to the rivers, which he thinks misidentified due to a mistranslation, asks for Frazer's help in understanding a passage in Pausanias.
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- English
- Ancient Greek
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The original letter is housed as ADD.Ms.c.61/30.
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Greek words supplied in R. A. Downie's hand.