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William Alexander Fraser [textual record]

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[ca. 1905].

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R5688-0-9-E, MG30-D63, Volume number: 1

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Item ID number:

103010

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William Alexander Fraser
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Date(s):

[ca. 1905].

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No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.3 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Item consists of a letter to a journalist, Mr. Maxwell, from W.A. Fraser concerning reviews of The Sa'Zada Tales (1905), denying that he imitated Rudyard Kipling and discussing his plans for writing about horse racing. Originals, 9 pages.

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Fraser, William Alexander, 1859-1933

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Fraser, William Alexander, 1859-1933 : William Alexander Fraser born in Nova Scotia, was educated in New York and Boston. He prospected in India and the Canadian Northwest for some years and free-lanced for the Detroit Free Press before settling in Ontario, first in Georgetown, and then in Toronto, where he died. Fraser was the author of a number of books, relating to life in India and the Canadian Northwest and to horse racing. His works include Sa'Zada Tales (1905), The Eye of a God and Other Tales of East and West (1899), and Thoroughbreds (1902). He contributed to various American magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post.

See: Encyclopedia Canadiana, vol. 4, p. 255; W.S. Wallace, MacMillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, p. 279.

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Received in 1961.
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Authors, Canadian, 1905 Mr. Maxwell, 1905

Horse racing - Canada, 1905 "The Sa'Zada Tales", 1905

Rudyard Kipling, 1905
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MG30-D63
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