Item 12 - Letter from E. Sidney Hartland to J. G. Frazer

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Add. MS c/58/12

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Letter from E. Sidney Hartland to J. G. Frazer

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  • 23 Feb. 1901 (Creation)

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Highgarth, Gloucester - The letter he has is from Dr [Henry] Roth, who writes that he has found a tribe of aboriginal people who believe in parthenogenesis, and has a theory of the origin of taboo as the will of the strongest; was interested to read the new GB, suspects all martyrologies, including St Dasius; [Alfred] Haddon will make an excellent President for the Anthropological Institute, hopes he will not disdain the Folklore Society later on. A postscript discusses two items from GB, relating to the seclusion of the kings of Corea and concerning the Welsh verses in Vol. II, p. 178.

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      A typescript copy of this letter [lacking the postscript] is housed as Add.Ms.b.36.34.

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

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