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Macdougall, Duncan (c 1866-1920) American doctor
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Copy letter from J. G. Frazer to Edward Clodd
Add. MS b/35/182 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

St. Keyne's Cambridge. Dated 23 March 1913 - Thanks him for his kind letter [about 'The Belief in Immortality'], which will help him 'bear with equanimity the thunder of the theological guns when they open fire on me'; declines the offer to send the book with the statistics of the weight of the soul [Duncan McDougall quoted in Edward Carpenter's 'Drama of Love and Death']; declines the invitation to visit, does not want to leave his wife. With a typescript footnote identifying Frazer's book.
Copy letter from Edw. Clodd to J. G. Frazer
Add. MS b/35/181 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Strafford House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Dated 21/3/13 - Thanks him for ['The Belief in Immortality'] and suggests another map of the land of shades, and cites Duncan MacDougall's work on the weight of the soul in a book by Edward Carpenter; suggests he meet Sir Mortimer Durand while he visits, an authority on Oriental customs and ideas; was pleased to see his tribute to [Andrew] Lang.