Item 34 - Letter from John Roscoe to Dr Frazer

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Add. MS c/56/34

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Letter from John Roscoe to Dr Frazer

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  • 20 Dec. 1909 (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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80 Chesterton Road - Gives the correct spelling of a [Kikuyu] word, and encloses a letter from T. W. W. Crawford; Norman has been offered an exhibition at Pembroke. The letter from Crawford to Roscoe is written from 229 Confederation Life Bldg., Toronto, Canada and dated Dec. 7th 09; he promises to study the ceremony of the Kikuyu New birth, and is hoping to work amongst the Embu tribe and study their customs, and thinks every missionary should do the same as they have opportunities others do not possess, is sorry to hear that Roscoe has had to retire from the mission.

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