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Add. MS c/60/70
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Letter from Walter W. Skeat to James G. Frazer
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- 30 Dec. [1900] (Creation)
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2 Salisbury Villas, Cambridge - Thanks him for the second edition of the 'Golden Bough'; relays the Cambridge news: the new museum scheme is going forward, a collection of Malay MSS and books has been presented to the library by [Richard] Wilkinson, [A. C.] Haddon is back, the Newalls are going to Padang to view the eclipse, suggests Frazer use them as a source for research, he is teaching Mrs Newall Malay, an apt pupil; is helping [William] Crooke with the new edition of Yule's 'Hobson-Jobson', Mrs Bensly and Dr [James] Hough have died; discusses masterships of Peterhouse and Queens' College; had a good time at the Trinity Feast.
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A typescript copy of part of this letter is housed as Add.Ms.b.37/202.
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- Skeat, Walter William (1866-1953) anthropologist (Subject)
- Haddon, Alfred Cort (1855-1940) anthropologist (Subject)
- Newall, Hugh Frank (1857-1944), astronomer (Subject)
- Crooke, William (1848-1923), anthropologist (Subject)
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1867–1941) colonial administrator and Malay scholar (Subject)
- Newall, Susannah Margaret (1850-1930) pianist, first wife of Hugh Frank Newall (Subject)
- Bensly, Agnes Dorothea (1835-1900), wife of Robert Lubbock Bensly (Subject)
- Hough, James (1818-1900) physician (Subject)