Printed letter enclosing a copy of a circular letter from Lord Ullswater, the Chairman of the University of Cambridge Commissioners, and announcing a series of meetings on Saturday afternoons during the present term relating to the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission.
Trevelyan, G.M. n.d. (1928?) 1p. only of letter re portrait of his father, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, left to Trinity.
Viscount Ullswater, J.W. Lowther 1924
Unidentified 1931
Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Misses Elizabeth; wishes she were nearer, or could have stayed longer; sad not to hear [Julian's] voice any more. Thinks he has 'rather a remarkable memory' so hopes he will remember his grandparents; good that he is strong and healthy. The Government are in a 'great mess': the Tories would do anything to stop the Franchise Bill and have 'dragged the Speaker' into a 'regular plot'. Thinks the government will probably have to go to the country. It is a 'bitter disappointment' about women's suffrage, but the question affects 'the future of the Lib[eral] party'; thinks it is the 'beginning of the end' for this Government, though perhaps she is always pessimistic. She and Sir George have been quiet since Elizabeth left. Will leave a parcel at Gr[osvenor] Cr[escent] for Elizabeth. Has had a letter from Robert [in the East] and a 'wonderful card of the mountain range'. Hopes he will like Java; thinks he is a little tired of travelling. Told Shade [the gamekeeper] to send Elizabeth a pheasant.
Included are letters from: Lady Betty Balfour (B/64) Louis de Broglie (B/63), Dorothea, Lady Charnwood (B/62), Lawrence Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay (B/63), George Stuart Gordon (B/64), Graeme Haldane (B/65), Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (B/64), Gareth R. V. Jones (B/64), Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (B/62), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (B/65), Victor A. G. R. Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (B/63), Desmond MacCarthy (B/64), Paul E. Paget (B/62), John H. G. Randolph (B/63), Lady Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (B/62, B/63 and B/65), Sir Annesley Ashworth Somerville (B/65), Alexandra, Lady Studd (B/64).
Included are letters from Sir B. H. Liddell Hart (B/74), A. E. Housman (B/76, B/81), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (B/77), 3rd Earl of Leicester (B/81), Ernest de Selincourt (B/81), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/79), John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (B/77), Hilda Margaret Pickard-Cambridge (B/81), Lionel E. L. Charlton (B/81), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), George Stuart Gordon (B/78), Winifred E. L. Hawke (B/80), George Cecil Jaffé (B/77), Kenneth Escott Kirk (B/79), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Sarah Hamilton Lusk (B/75), Theodore Lyman (B/70), Francis John Lys (B/74), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/76, B/78, B/80), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (B/78), Stephen Charles Neill (B/76); Sir Harold F. P. Percival (B/79), Ernest Murray Pollock, Baron (later Viscount) Hanworth (B/74, B.79), Constance Babington Smith (B/78), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/75, B/78), Sir George Adam Smith (B/79).
The White House, College Green, Worcester - Congratulates Frazer; the Classical Tripos of 1878 is sadly reduced, supposes that apart from scholars and schoolmasters, James Lowther and R. C. Lehmann are the most prominent survivors, as Spring-Rice died young. James summarises his own life: 35 years a schoolmaster, served in the war, and is now an archdeacon, admits 'I'm not quite an ecclesiastic by nature'; his brother M. R. James joins him in his congratulations.