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- c 1899-c 1922 (Creation)
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1 vol.
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A bookplate pasted on the inside front cover of other volumes transferred from the Haddon Library at the same time reads, 'This book formed part of the library of Sir James George Frazer, O.M., which was bequeathed by Lady Frazer to Trinity College, Cambridge. It was presented by the College to the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge.' The volume was then transferred to the Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology and in 2010 was transferred to Trinity College Library to rejoin the Frazer Papers.
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Transferred from the Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology, 23 March 2010.
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Drafts of 'The Origin of Totemism', the Preface to 'Sir Roger de Coverley', 'On the Science of Man', the Introduction to Apollodorus, 'Reply to an Address' [on the occasion of the foundation of the lectureship in Frazer’s honour]; with notes on the legends of the origin of fire-making, Apollodorus, on 'London Life in Addison’s Time', the belief in immortality, and anthropological notes on the people of Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Andaman Islands, and the Marquesas. With 7 items laid in loose, 6 of them pages torn from the notebook, and one a list of books for Sir James Frazer.
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'8' in pen-and-ink on inside front cover, possibly assigned by the Haddon Library.