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Add. MS c/56/16
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Letter from Edward Clodd to J. G. Frazer
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- 20 June 1924 (Creation)
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Aldeburgh - Thanks him for 'Selected Passages from his Works'; reminisces about Frazer meeting [Sir Alfred] Lyall, Ray Lankester, [Sir Frederick] Pollock and [James Allanson] Picton in 1905 when they rowed to Oxford; and a visit the Frazers paid in 1910 in company with [Thomas] Hardy 'and his present wife' [Florence], [John Bagnell] Bury, and Sutherland Black, and when he was summoned to town on Holman Hunt's death; the 'Literary Review' has a review of Paul Couchoud's book ['L'Énigme de Jésus'?] by Thomas Whittaker; quotes the Einstein limerick starting, 'There was a young lady named Bright'.
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- Clodd, Edward (1840–1930) banker and popular anthropologist (Subject)
- Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn (1835-1911) Knight, administrator in India, and writer (Subject)
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray (1847-1929) Knight, zoologist (Subject)
- Pollock, Sir Frederick (1845-1937), 3rd Baronet, jurist (Subject)
- Picton, James Allanson (1832–1910) politician and author (Subject)
- Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928), novelist and poet (Subject)
- Hardy, Florence Emily (1879-1937), children’s writer (Subject)
- Bury, John Bagnell (1861-1927) classical scholar and historian (Subject)
- Black, John Sutherland (1846-1923) author and editor (Subject)
- Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) painter (Subject)
- Couchoud, Paul Louis (1879-1959) French philosopher and man of letters (Subject)
- Frazer, Lilly (? 1855-1941), writer and translator, wife of Sir James George Frazer (Subject)
- Whittaker, Thomas (1856-1935) English metaphysician and critic (Subject)