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Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, and Frazer, The Golden Bough.
12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left it, & lay reading Jane's pamphlet.'
'On with "Ambassadors" and some of Jane Harrison's "Ancient Art and Ritual": which makes me fear I shall never rise to the rarer heights of folklore and anthropology.'