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Add. MS c/61/40
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Letter from William Wyse to J. G. Frazer
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- 21 July 1905 (Creation)
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Halford, Shipston on Stour [on mourning stationery] - Discusses a passage in Euphorion [of Chalcis, as quoted by Athenaeus] and whether it means competitors were beheaded after being being severely beaten; has bought [J. G.] Lockhart's ['Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart'] and discusses the differing Toryism of Scott and [Samuel] Johnson.
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- English
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A typescript copy of this letter is housed as ADD.Ms.b.37/380.
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Envelope docketed in Frazer's hand 'on Athenaeus IV. p. 154'.
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- Wyse, William (1860-1929) classical scholar (Subject)
- Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), 1st Baronet, poet and novelist (Subject)
- Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), author and lexicographer (Subject)
- Lockhart, John Gilbert (1891-1960), writer, soldier, and Secretary of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (Subject)