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Pears, Sir Edwin (1835-1919) Knight, barrister, publicist, and historian
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Copy letter from Edw. Clodd to J. G. Frazer
Add. MS b/35/180 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Dated 14/7/12 - Thanks him again for a volume from the third edition of 'The Golden Bough'; [John Bagnell?] Bury was to visit when Sir Edwin Pears was there but was too unwell to come.
Copy letter from Edw. Clodd to J. G. Frazer
Add. MS b/35/175 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Dated 30/9/06 - Thanks him for 'Adonis, Attis and Osiris', and makes suggestions for further sources to consult, concerning examples of dismembered gods and the propitiation of slain animals; quotes a letter from Edwin Pears about Rhodes; remarks on the interpretation of data in and through the processes of spiritual Evolution; [Henry Thomas?] Buckle had glimmerings but was 'just pre-Darwinian, and there lies the dividing line marking the profound Revolution'; found [E. B.] Tylor in broken health two months back.