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- 29 Sept 1901 (Creation)
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Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Will instruct Drummond to pay fifty pounds into Robert's account as he did last year. Harry Thompson, his wife, and a niece are here, as well as George's friend [Robin] Mayor. Charles is going away on visits tomorrow; George and Mayor set off on food on Tuesday. Asks Robert to remind him of the 'very apt quotation' which was a parallel to 'Unde pares somnos' [Lucan "Pharsalia", 28]. Lord Ridley is coming to shoot, and he wants 'to prove to him that his brother [Sir Edward Ridley] was wrong'; there is a note by Grotius in Sir George's old 1669 edition which has it right. Life is generally quiet; he and Caroline are reading Carlyle's early letters; it is interesting to see 'all his great literary qualities in a vigorous but ordinary style'.
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Add. MS a/731/2, dated 2 Oct. 1901, seems to be the reply to this letter.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838–1928), 2nd Baronet, politician and author (Subject)
- Thompson, Henry Yates (1838-1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor (Subject)
- Thompson, Elizabeth Alexandrina Murray Yates (1855-1941) wife of Henry Yates Thompson, known as Dolly (Subject)
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Mayor, Robert John Grote (1869-1947), civil servant and philosopher, known as Robin (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Sir Charles Philips (1870-1958), 3rd Baronet, politician (Subject)
- Annaeus Lucanus, Marcus (39-65) poet, known as Lucan (Subject)
- Ridley, Matthew White (1842–1904), 1st Viscount Ridley, politician (Subject)
- Ridley, Sir Edward (1843-1928) barrister, judge and politician (Subject)
- Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881), author, biographer, and historian (Subject)