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Crawley, Alfred Ernest (1869-1924) anthropologist
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Letter from A. E. Crawley to Frazer
Add. MS c/56/35 · Item · 10 July 1901
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Buckhold Hill, Pangbourne, Berks. - Asks for permission to dedicate his book ['Mystic Rose; a study of primitive marriage and of primitive thought in its bearing on marriage'] to Frazer.
Letter from A. E. Crawley to Frazer
Add. MS c/56/36 · Item · 31 Oct. [1902?]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Tesdale House, Abingdon - Thanks him for the book, has an article on the origin of religion coming out; had heard of [Alfred] Haddon's travels among the Waganda; [Edvard] Westermarck has a high opinion of Crawley's book, 'Mystic Rose'.
Letter from A. E. Crawley to Frazer
Add. MS c/56/37 · Item · 22 Feb. [1902]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Buckhold Hill, Pangbourne - Thanks him for his opinion of his book ['Mystic Rose']; asks if Frazer to let him know if he ever understands why one class of women is regarded as more dangerous than another [in marriage]; thought he would leave the study of promiscuity to Westermarck; extended the meaning of taboo; asks if the collection at the University Library is worth using; is thinking of researching savage political institutions.