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FRAZ/1/38
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Letter from Lilly Frazer to William James Lewis
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- 3 Feb. 1926 (Creation)
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Queen Anne’s Mansions, St. James Park, London – An account of a tea party at which [George Henry Lane Fox] Pitt-Rivers was present, and a party at which the French Ambassador Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau presented the Légion d'honneur to Dudley Buxton for his discovery of a missing cache of Descartes’ letters. Discusses the phrase 'cent sous' in response to Lewis’ query; mentions undertaking a translation of 'Christianisme et la Révolution française' by Aulard, and writing two articles.
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- Frazer, Lilly (? 1855-1941), writer and translator, wife of Sir James George Frazer (Subject)
- Lewis, William James (1847-1926) mineralogist (Subject)
- Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox Pitt- (1890–1966) author, anthropologist, and Second World War internee (Subject)
- Fleuriau, Aimé Joseph de (1870-1938) diplomat (Subject)
- Buxton, Leonard Halford Dudley (1889-1939) anthropologist (Subject)