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TRER/46/31
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Incomplete letter from Charles Philips Trevelyan, perhaps to his parents
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- [1890s?] (Creation)
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[on Trinity College notepaper; beginning mid-sentence]:- Is afraid he has 'talked to him [perhaps Robert?] too bitterly about it. He doesn't look now as if he is enjoying himself much'; Charles fears 'he is finding out that for most people the fun of this place is a lugubrious farce'.
Was 'proctorized this afternoon by a proctor without his bulldogs': he 'ducked him sufficiently to make him angry, but not sufficiently to make him dangerous'. A shame he has 'never seen the Varsity from a freshman's point of view', or he might 'get some life from the incident'. Asks if Saturday is the day he is to come to London,