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FRAZ/32/282-288
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Six typed letters and one card from Arundell Esdaile to Lady Frazer
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- Oct.-Nov. 1939 (Creation)
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7 items
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British Museum - The letters concern material left at the British Museum and seek to clarify which material has been offered, as well as the whereabouts of 40 notebooks not found in the suitcase and two boxes, which turn out to be 36 notebooks in Downie's possession; Esdaile records handing over 55 notebooks to Dr Bell, Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts, and his return of the rest of the material to Trinity.
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- Frazer, Lilly (? 1855-1941), writer and translator, wife of Sir James George Frazer (Subject)
- Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy (1880–1956), librarian (Subject)
- Downie, Robert Angus (b 1905) biographer (Subject)
- Bell, Sir Harold Idris (1879-1967) Knight, papyrologist and scholar of Welsh literature (Subject)