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Add. MS b/37/364
Title
Copy letter from W. J. Woodhouse to J. G. Frazer
Date(s)
- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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1 item; typescript copy
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Dated May 17th, 1891 - Apologises for the slowness of his reply, has been coaching men for Greats, and the letters he writes to Frazer are not the work of a spare five minutes; discusses the border of Messenia in detail, and the rivers there, his theory that Sparta from the first held the territory; also discusses an image of Zeus of Ithome, and the date of the Ageladas.
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- Ancient Greek
- English
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The original letter is housed as ADD.Ms.c.61/32.
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Note
Words in Greek supplied in R. A. Downie's hand.