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Halford, Shipston on Stour. Dated 27 July, 1912 - Has been reading 'The Golden Bough' and disagrees with Frazer's hypothesis about Jesus and his connection to the tradition of using prisoners to play Haman and Mordecai; disagrees in the first place that the Jews at Jerusalem had any such custom; does not mean to agree with 'the extravagant scepticism of men like [Arthur] Drews'; but agrees that the Synoptic Gospels are not earlier than the destruction of Jerusalem.

Aldeburgh - Thanks him for [Paul-Louis] Couchoud's pamphlet ['L'Énigme de Jésus']; has been reading 'The Melody of God' [by Desmond Chapman-Huston] containing an alternate life of Jesus, reflects that [J. M.] Robertson, [A.] Drews, and W. B. Smith leave him unconvinced about the historical Jesus, and quotes Salomon Reinach on the point; will talk over the Couchoud pamphlet and Flinders Petrie's 'Social Life in Ancient Egypt' with [George] Whale; have just returned from Italy; [A. C.] Haddon sails for Australia on 30 June.