Item 41 - Letter from A. E. Housman to J. G. Frazer

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FRAZ/1/41

Title

Letter from A. E. Housman to J. G. Frazer

Date(s)

  • 22 Oct. 1927 (Creation)

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1 item

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Scope and content

Trinity College, Cambridge - Discusses the use of 'tangor' in Ovid. Expresses admiration for Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

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Existence and location of copies

Photocopy in the Papers of Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow, GOW F5/12/5.

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This is written in reply to Frazer's letter of 21 Oct. 1927, housed as Add.Ms.c.111/17. Frazer's reply to this letter on 24 Oct. is housed as Add.Ms.c.111/16, and is accompanied by a draft of this letter. The items were found in a book in the collectionread more

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Publication note

Published in Ackerman, Robert, ed. 'Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2005].

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