Item 3 - First manuscript draft of Frazer's lecture, 'Roman Life in the Time of Pliny the Younger'

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Corrected draft of a lecture given at the Royal Institution on 31 May 1921; with footnotes.

Accompanied by a letter from F. Pollock to Frazer, 10 May 1920, laid in between pages 42-43 of the manuscript. Pollock writes from 21 Hyde Park Place, W.2., summarising William Somervile's account of hunting and trapping foxes in 'The Chace', and concluding that Somervile's tone suggests that in the second quarter of the 18th century it was 'not yet sacrilege to kill a fox otherwise than with the proper hunting ritual'.