Showing 7 results

1 King [Edward?] St, Oxford - Cites [Georg] Blecher's 'De extispicio capita tria' which has a mention of divination by liver.

248 So. 23rd Street, Philadelphia, Pa. - Has been studying Stephen Langdon's 'The Sumerian Epic of Paradise, the Flood and the Fall of Man' and has found a reference to a sexual union between the god and goddess to bring about fertility of the fields through inundataion, and discusses the text.

248 So. 23rd Street, Philadelphia, Pa. - Asks if Frazer has come across anything that suggests a relationship between purification rites after birth and either irrigation of fields or fertility.

248 So. 23rd Street, Philadelphia, Pa. - An article on his summary of the interpretation of [Stephen] Langdon's tablet will be published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society; data on the new Sumerian version of the Deluge published by Dr [Arno] Poebel is in Jastrow's book on Hebrew and Babylonian Traditions; doesn't think the Sumerians or Babylonians had any story about the Fall of Man; asks if he has any parallels outside of his written works on the 'father motif' in which gods and man are descended from a male deity.

American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions - Renews an invitation to deliver a course of lectures in seven or eight centers in the country, four or six lectures at a time, for $2500. Accompanied by the envelope with 'Opened by Censor' label.

29 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park - Discusses the practice of necromancy among the Babylonians and the belief in ghosts, suggests [Morris] Jastrow's 'Religion of Babylonia and Assyria' and R. C. Thompson's 'Semitic Magic'.

248 So. 23rd Street, Philadelphia, Pa. - FRAZ/17/79: Thanks him for the Huxley Lecture on Deluge traditions, has sent him some reprints of his own articles, including one on the Langdon Tablet; also wrote a letter renewing the invitation from the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions and hasn't had a reply, wonders if it has 'become a victim to some dreadful submarine', and sends a carbon copy of the letter [FRAZ/17/78], dated 23 Jan. 1917, which lays out the proposal to deliver a course of lectures in seven or eight centers in the country, four or six lectures at a time, for $2500; a postscript in pencil suggests they should aim for the fall of 1918, for 'by that time the crisis will be near an end, if not over'.

Accompanied by the envelope with 'Opened by Censor' label and 'P.1977' written on each end of the label in blue pencil.