J. G. Frazer to Howitt 22 July 1906

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people ready to believe that
what he says so often and so
confidently must be true.
Your communication has done
good already, for he has
written a note to the Athenaeum
expressing his regret that in
"the Secret of the Totem" he
has misapprehended you and
me. What the misapprehension
precisely is, I do not know
(beyond what he says briefly
in the note to the Athenaeum)
because I have not read his
book. By omitting to read it
I believe I have lost
nothing and have spared
myself much annoyance
by not meeting with
many crass misapprehensions
and misrepresentations.

The way in which
people at home bedevil your
and Spencer and Gillen's