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Seatoller, Borrowdale, Keswick. - Thanks his mother for her letter. The weather has not been so good recently, but any rain has been brief. Bessie seems 'very well at Rottingdean [where she is visiting her friend Jeanne Salomonson]' and is coming here on the 5th; wonders if it would suit for them to come to Wallington around the 13th or 14th, but expects Bessie will be writing about this. Does not think he will finish his play here, but will read it to her if she likes; will at least have done more than half of the final act.

The new Slade Professor is 'a certain Walstein [Charles Waldstein, later Walston]; he has held the position before and 'proved his incompetence'. He is 'the most notorious snob in Cambridge, far out-doing the O. B. [Oscar Browning], and a quite odious man as well''. Thinks his father met him recently there, and 'did not get a good impression'. Seems that it was settled that Fry should have the professorship, but 'at the last moment Poynter and Walstein, who is a great intimate with royalty, got it settled their way instead. Everyone is very angry': Sidney Colvin 'is said to be quite furious'.

That is a 'personal matter', and Robert only knows one side, but 'the bigger issue is really important'. Almost 'all the merit and intelligence among both artists and students has for a long time 'been outside and opposed to the [Royal] Academy', and yet the Academy has 'enormous power in many directions'. The 'Chantrey Bequest affair' is of 'secondary importance' in itself, but may 'serve as an occasion to break their power'. Certainly not the case of only a narrow clique '(the New Eng[lish Art Club, for instance) that is hostile to the Academy, but all who care strongly about art'; nor is the hostility 'a personal attack on Poynter, who is more intelligent than most of them', and Robert believes him to be 'a perfectly straight man according to his lights'.

Has a gun at Wallington, though may have 'Bowen's gun [which came to Robert after E E Bowen's death] sent there' from Westcott. Should have said that it is 'now really settled' about their house: the clearing of the site was to start last week, it is due to be finished by February 20 [1905], with the roof being on by 20th November [this year]. They are 'very glad all the bother is over'.

Menu for dinner signed by the Master H. M. Butler, T. P. Pemberton, H. F. Newall, H. F. Stewart, Charles Waldstein, Francis Jenkinson, Sedley Taylor, E. Seymer Thompson, F. C. Burkitt, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edward J. Dent, Alan Gray, Charles Wood, Karl Breul, R. D. Archer-Hind, Oscar Browning, [G. H. Orpen?], and J. E. Nixon.

Trin[ity College, Cambridge]. - Was sent an invitation for Bob from [Charles?] Pope to play in the '[Harrow] Old Boy's match' on 21 October by mistake, and 'by an even greater mistake' has torn it up. Hears occasional news of Bob and his 'ménage'; asks when he is coming for a visit. The exhibition is 'a great success', with 'all the mode[s]t virtues and staring faults of the impressionists well-represented'; [Roger] Fry's pictures 'are among the most generally liked'. Some of the paintings 'are very good, and all interesting'; George went to an 'advertisement debate' about them yesterday at Wallstein's [sic: Charles Waldstein], for the Walpole Society.

Refers to a conversation he had with Henry Sidgwick shortly before his death. Recalls that they discussed various matters of general interest, including disestablishment. They also began to discuss Psychical Research, and he reminded Sidgwick of some reports on alleged cases of tuberculosis being cured at Lourdes. Claims to have been deeply impressed to hear Sidgwick say that 'if one could live one's life over again there would be much one would not devote so much of [ones] time to', but that he did not say what he referred to. Louis assumes that he was talking about Psychical Research.

36 Montpelier Square, S.W. Dated January 14th, 1908 - Congratulates him on 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris'.

King's College, Cambridge. February 19, 1898 - Celebrates the publication of ['Pausanias's Description of Greece'].

3 press clippings, Jan-Apr 1921: piece on Aeschylus' "Oresteia", put on as the Cambridge Greek Play, by its director J. T. Sheppard from the "Cambridge Review"; brief note from the "Holborn Review" of the text of the trilogy, as presented at Cambridge, with facing English translation by Trevelyan; 'Editorial Notes' from the "Holborn Review" comparing lines from Trevelyan's translation with that of Gilbert Murray.

24 press clippings (plus a few duplicates) , mostly reviews of Trevelyan's full translation of the "Oresteia", Jan 1923-Nov/Dec 1923, from: the "Scotsman"; the "Daily Herald" (two copies); the "Aberdeen Journal"; the "Guardian" (two copies); the "Times" (also reviewing a Loeb Library translation of the "Suppliant Maidens" etc by H. Weir Smyth and a verse translation of Aeschylus by G. M. Cookson), with a following letter by J. T. Sheppard correcting some points about the performances by Cambridge University students; the ""Sheffield Daily Telegraph"; the "Saturday Review"; the "Daily News"; the "Manchester Guardian"; the "New Statesman" (two copies; by 'J.T.S' - J. T. Sheppard - which also reviews G. M. Cookson's "Four Plays of Aeschylus"); the "Saturday Review" (selection of Trevelyan's translation as a prize in a chess competition); the "Highway" (two copies); the "Hallam Review" (also reviewing "Translation and Translations" by J. P. Postgate); the "Yorkshire Post"; the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury"; the "Educational Times"; the "Glasgow Herald"; the "Isis" (a review of Gilbert Murray's translation of the "Choephoroe", comparing it favourably with Trevelyan's); piece by Gilbert Murray from the "Nation & Athenaeum", "Thoughts on Verse Translation from the Greek", which mentions Trevelyan's work; the "Observer (also reviewing Murray's "Chorephoroe"); the "Classical Review" (two copies: with other classical translations); the "London Mercury". Also from this span of dates is a piece from the "Daily News", 30 Jan 1923, regarding an argument between Lascelles Abercrombie and Sir Charles Walston on whether Darwin's "Origin of Species" can be considered a work of art.

6 press clippings, June-July, relating to the performance on tour of the "Oresteia" in Trevelyan's translation by the Balliol Players. Most report a special performance given at Thomas Hardy's house, Max Gate in Dorchester, to Hardy and his wife, Granville Barker and his wife, and Sidney Cockerell. From: the "Times"; the "Daily News"; the "Daily Mail"; the "Daily Chronicle"; the "Westminster Gazette".

Press clipping, 21 Jan 1926, from the "Oxford Magazine", reviewing E. S. Hoernle's "Choric Songs from Aeschylus"; Hoernle criticises Trevelyan's translation in the introduction.

21 printed order forms by the University Press of Liverpool for Trevelyan's translation of the "Oresteia".

Most press cuttings sent to Trevelyan by Durrant's Press Cuttings.

Inch-ma-home, Cambridge - Thanks him for his letter giving his permission to use his name on the memorial [to the Australian government on preserving the anthropological record of 'primitive men now left on the globe']; other signatories are Professors [Sir Richard] Jebb, [Frederic?] Maitland, [Charles] Waldstein [later Walston], [James?] Ward, [Henry Francis?] Pelham, Andrew Lang, Henry Jackson, and James Bryce, and of Cambridge science men, [Sir Michael?] Foster, [Alfred?] Newton, [Sir Francis?] Darwin, [John Newport] Langley, [Adam?] Sedgwick.

16 Avenue Victor Hugo, Boulogne-Sur-Seine - Thanks her for the amusing Sylvain Biscuit [?] letter and the beautiful verse; his wife thinks her lucky to have an appreciative consort; defends his previous letter's criticism of Walston, he has seen the Walstons more than once, but found nothing to praise in the 'Alcamenes', he will be restrained in his review, but 'there must be some pepper at the bottom to save my honour as a critic'; mentions a time Furtwaengler [Adolf Furtwängler?] behaved badly to [Walston, then Walstein]; is writing to 'your Buffon friend', is home on Sundays, ladies don't come before 3 1/2, the conversation is never about dresses, servants, or impending divorces; supposes the Slavonic Josephus will come up again at the Loisy Congress, Couchoud's and Goguel's articles are very superficial and he sides with Eisler, wishes Frazer would make up his mind about this.

16 Avenue Victor Hugo, Boulogne-Sur-Seine - Cordial wishes for the new year; appreciates Frazer's books all the more for the books of other authors he cannot praise, namely Walston's 'Alcamenes', which attributes the Oresteia to Sophocles, among other errors.

Dined with M R James who is bored of the Vice-Chancellorship, argument between Garrett and Fitzgerald when climbing, "wild Welsh Tory" at the Union, Magpie and Stump, Robert Law "a capital fellow though he belongs to a damned Trades Union", Alf Noyes had a heated debate with Charles Waldstein, Nevile Butler developing into a good soccer player, Temperley a poor lecturer, Simpson good in matter but bad in delivery, Political Science "a shocking hard subject", Cornford "a positive danger to the public".

Mayfair House, Carlos Place, W.1. - Congratulates the Frazers.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 5 February, 1917 - Discovered Frazer's 'Letters of Cowper' in the Museum, and thanks him for it; is sorry for the Germans in England, hears Waldstein [later Walston] was treated badly, hopes Miss Brent hasn't been treated badly; his sister is teaching French to soldiers going to the front; the companies of the Monmouthshire who occupied Whewell's Court left this morning; Cesare [Giuseppe Raimondo de Cesàro?] has been summoned back to Liège by the Germans.