Item 19-21 - Two letters and a card from J. Rhŷs to J. G. Frazer

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Add. MS c/60/19-21

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Two letters and a card from J. Rhŷs to J. G. Frazer

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  • 9-15 Nov. 1905 (Creation)

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Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941), knight, social anthropologist and classical scholar
(1854-1941)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Card [incomplete?] dated 9 November thanks Frazer for his 'Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship' and is giving a lecture on the Ogam alphabet at [J. B.] Bury's suggestion. In the letter of 11 November, he writes about the Celtic festival on the 13th August, a date discussed in the book as it is Diana of Nemi's festival. The letter of 15th August he has read the book further and apologises that some of his remarks in the previous letter were 'worse than useless'; does not see how etymologically 'Rivos' could be connected with 'Virbius'; is sorry not to be at the Folklore Society meeting, would be happy to read [A.B.] Cook's MS; revisits the Coligny calendar and whether the calendar god Rivos can be connected with Diana Egeria.

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