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From Edward Burnett Tylor   8 September 1869

Linden | Wellington Som.

Sep. 8. 69

My dear Sir

I understand from Sir John Lubbock that you have a copy of Mr Haliburton’s curious paper, published in some Nova Scotia transactions, on Superstitions connected with Sneezing.1 If you can find this paper without difficulty, I should be much obliged if you would lend it to me. I would not trouble you with this request, but I do not know how otherwise to get at this paper, which would complete a collection of accounts I have on the subject.2 With many apologies

Believe me Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Edward B. Tylor

Chas. Darwin Esq

1
Tylor refers to Robert Grant Haliburton and Haliburton 1863. A copy inscribed by the author is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. CD had lent his copy to John Lubbock, in 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter from John Lubbock, 28 September [1867] and n. 2).
2
Beliefs associated with sneezing are discussed in Tylor 1871; Haliburton 1863 is cited on 1: 90 and 93.

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