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- 31 March 1901 (Creation)
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Highgarth, Gloucester - Received his letter [raising points in his review of GB], and admits that he was working from faulty memory as well; discusses religion vs magic in Australia, quoting [Alfred] Howitt who quotes [Samuel] Gason; has no wish for controversy with Frazer; 'mildly protests' that he did not question the authenticity of the Acts of St Dasius gratuitously, if it is established then the Abruzzian custom mentioned by Canon Pullen to Grant Allen, for which [Edward] Clodd got into hot water for repeating would be corroborated; doesn't think it would be wise to memorialize the Queensland Government to publish [Henry] Roth's collections, suggest [Alfred] Haddon phrase it in the most general terms.
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A typescript copy of this letter is housed as Add.Ms.b.36.38.
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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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- Hartland, Edwin Sidney (1848–1927) folklorist (Subject)
- Roth, Henry Ling (1855-1925) anthropologist (Subject)
- Haddon, Alfred Cort (1855-1940) anthropologist (Subject)
- Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie (1848-1899), writer on science and novelist (Subject)
- Pullen, Henry William (1836–1903) Church of England clergyman and writer (Subject)
- Howitt, Alfred William (1830–1908) anthropologist (Subject)
- Gason, Samuel (1845-1897) Australian trooper (Subject)
- Clodd, Edward (1840–1930) banker and popular anthropologist (Subject)