Item 30 - "Army Book 136": notebook with draft works and translations by R. C. Trevelyan

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TRER/32/30

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"Army Book 136": notebook with draft works and translations by R. C. Trevelyan

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  • 1920s-1940s? (Creation)

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Notebook with light brown soft cover; 45 ff.

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Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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'Army Book 136' printed on cover. List of tulip varieties on first page does not seem to be in R. C. Trevelyan's hand. List of autobiographical and literary topics. Prose piece about focusing on the senses and the present. Dialogue between 'Phil.' and 'Mus.'; these names may later change to 'Puce' and 'Coryat', or this might be a separate dialogue. List of names in four columns: 'G[eorge] O[tto] T[revelyan... Bertie [Russell]... Irene [Cooper Wills?]... [Arthur] Waley...' [if this is a distribution list then it must date to before G. O. Trevelyan's death in 1928].Essay on "Senses" in various versions. Nature notes on the dodder plant. Start of novelistic piece set at 'Conybeare Hall', in which Thornton [Coryat?]'s wife considers the succession of tutors brought in to teach their son Percy. Dialogue between Aesop, Rhodopis and Croesus, incorporating a prose tale on Gilgamesh.

Notebook also used from other end in: what looks like timetable on inside cover and first page; list of names in columns: 'Donald [Tovey]... Roger [Fry]... Bertie [Russell]... Desmond [MacCarthy]... Clifford [Allen]. Draft of "An Island of One's Own" [published in "Rimeless Numbers"]; the 'Miranda' character is sometimes named 'Joan' here; a separate dialogue between 'Colin' and 'Joan' follows. Translation of Virgil's "Eclogues" 1. Draft verse including a prayer to Ishtar.

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