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- 3 May 1931 (Creation)
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1 vol.
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Archival history
A bookplate pasted on the inside front cover 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.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred from the Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology, 23 March 2010.
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Scope and content
Typed copy, with manuscript emendations and additions in an unidentified hand, of a notebook containing bibliographies for subjects covered in all 3 volumes of 'The Fear of the Dead', beginning with 'Works to be consulted' followed by bibliographies for over 90 different subjects, such as 'Ghosts imparting fertility to crops', 'Oracles given by ghosts', and 'Dangerous ghosts of the murdered'.
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Related units of description
Another copy of this typescript is housed as FRAZ/9/3.
Notes area
Note
Date from cover page. Title from label on front cover.
Note
'9' in pen-and-ink on verso of front flyleaf. A number assigned by the Haddon Library?