W.W. Skeat letter fragment, circa 1921?

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W.W. Skeat letter fragment, circa 1921?

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Pages 2-3 of a letter from Skeat to an unnamed colleague, undated, but after 1921; includes information about an unnamed publication connected with Charles Williams of Oxford University Publications, and an observation about the story of Samson's foxes, from the Biblical book of Judges, being similar to a tale from Ovid, with creatures having their tails set on fire and obliged to run through fields, including a request for the recipient's reaction.

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Skeat, Walter William, 1866-1953

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Walter William Skeat was born and educated at Cambridge, where he studied classics. As a colonial administrator in Selangor, he developed an interest in Malay culture, and shared leadership of a scientific expedition into uncivilized Malay states and Thailand in 1899-1900. As a result, he wrote and published the first comprehensive study of Malay and Malayan aboriginal beliefs and customs, and also donated a collection of artifacts to the British Museum from his trip. An illness contracted on th...