Item 323 - Copy letter from W. O. E. Oesterley to Sir James Frazer

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Add. MS b/36/323

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Copy letter from W. O. E. Oesterley to Sir James 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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St. Alban's Vicarage, Bedford Park, W.4. Dated 9 Jan. 1919 - Has read his 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' and enjoyed it, and reviewed it for the 'Edinburgh Review', mentions a verse in Deuteronomy in support of his theory of primogeniture; mentions that [Frederic William] Maitland supports his theory of 'jus primae noctis' in his 'Doomsday Book and After'.

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