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FRAZ/1/117
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Letter from Edward Clodd to J. G. Frazer
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- 7 Mar. 1926 (Creation)
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Aldeburgh - Shares his thoughts on reading 'The Worship of Nature': muses on the universe in his breakfast egg, refers to Barcroft’s lecture on the mystery of how eggs came into being; quotes the 'Punch' Einstein limerick; refers to Dr Gann’s discovery in the Yucatan, and Sir Aurel Stein’s excavations in Central Asia; doesn’t think they will strengthen Elliot Smith and Perry’s diffusion theory; refers to the festival of Ucharal as described in [Edgar] Thurston’s 'Omens and Superstitions of Southern India' and ‘droit du Seigneur’ in Coulton’s 'Medieval Village'. Mentions a fierce storm in November and subsequent flooding in Aldeburgh.
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- Clodd, Edward (1840–1930) banker and popular anthropologist (Subject)
- Barcroft, Sir Joseph (1872–1947) Knight, physiologist (Subject)
- Gann, Thomas William Francis (1867-1938), colonial medical officer and archaeologist (Subject)
- Stein, Sir Aurel (1862-1943) Knight, archaeologist and explorer (Subject)
- Smith, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871-1937) Knight, anatomist and anthropologist (Subject)
- Perry, William James (1887-1949) anthropologist (Subject)
- Thurston, Edgar (1855-1935) ethnographer (Subject)
- Coulton, George Gordon (1858-1947), historian and controversialist (Subject)