Item 130 - Letter from W. Baldwin Spencer to Sir James Frazer

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FRAZ/17/130

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Letter from W. Baldwin Spencer to Sir James Frazer

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  • 3 June 1927 (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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Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W. - Asks to be forgiven for long silence, has been in Central Australia; is home revising and extending 'Native Tribes' under another name; was unhappy with the questioning of the [Churinga?] and Alchera beliefs in view of Strehlow's work, and went back to the Arunta to check it, still feels they were right; arranges to meet.

Accompanied by an envelope with a precis in Frazer's hand.

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