Item 72-72a - Letter from C. R. L. Fletcher to Sir J. G. Frazer

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Norham End, Oxford - Returns a letter from the late W. P. Ker, and asks for Ker's letters in return so that they may be copied by his sister. Encloses a letter from Frazer to Ker, dated 13th July 1920, from No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4, in which he thanks Ker for sending his inaugural lecture at Oxford [on poetry] and asks him to write a book on the Oxford poets, cannot conceive how Matthew Arnold could desert the 'dreaming spires' to inspect schools...'and you All Souls for Gower Street? Oh, how could you do it? how could you do it?'

The letter of J. G. Frazer to W. P. Ker is published in Ackerman, Robert, ed. 'Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2005].