Item 46 - Letter from A. W. Payne to Sir James Frazer

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Letter from A. W. Payne to Sir James Frazer

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  • 11 Dec. 1939 (Creation)

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Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941), knight, social anthropologist and classical scholar
(1854-1941)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Pembroke, Barwell, Leicester - Thanks him for his reply, informs him he has bought more of Frazer's works, and admires them as well; asks if he has come across Theodore Powys' theory of Soil and Sexuality; mentions a newspaper story of Dorset girls praying before an old stone for sweethearts; and describes an instance of sympathetic magic used by nurses in a maternity hospital.

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