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Add. MS b/36/247 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 17.11.02 - Has been working hard on a volume of Grenfell and Hunt papyri; is enjoying Manchester, and describes his teaching there, has found an expert in Iranian matters in L. C. Casartelli, the head of a R. C. College there; his friend Williams Jackson called on him from London; in answer to his letter discusses sources for the study of the Avesta; was interested in [A. B.] Cook's paper ['The Golden Bough and the Rex Nemorensis'] and hopes he will reply; the 'Hibbert Journal' is promising; thinks [F. C.] Conybeare made a strong case.

Add. MS b/35/222 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

13 Norham Gardens, Oxford. Dated [1899] - Asks Frazer's opinion relating to the Sacrament and similarities to practices of ancient or primitive people; bad news from Natal, looks as if [General George Stuart] White was a duffer and is anxious for Ladysmith.

Add. MS b/35/221 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Dated 26 October 1899 - Cites sources that discuss different aspects of the Trinity, suggests Epiphanius as a source for folklore; will be delighted to read the proof of the second 'GB'; Salomon Reinach suggests that the story in Pausanias of Midas and the anchor is an echo of a flood myth; saw Rendel Harris on a bicycle trip through Cambridge.