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Dunford House. - He and his wife send a 'thousand thanks' for the 'delightful Christmas card' [this year's "From the Shiffolds"]: Trevelyan and Gilbert Murray are 'transubstantiating Menander', whom he only knew before through 'his dimidiated Terence'.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Very interested to hear Elizabeth's account of Mary, who says she enjoyed staying at the Shiffolds very much; when she was here alone last year, she tended to get 'very low-spirited at bed time'. The little boy [Humphry] is 'pretty and lively'. Seems a good idea for Elizabeth to go to the sea; would probably benefit Julian as well. Annie [Philips] stayed a week; feels 'quite dull without her'; the [Francis Wrigley] Hirsts and Phill [Morgan Philips Price] came for Sunday. Mrs Hirst is in better health, and 'very good fun'.

Dunford House, Heyshott, Midhurst, Sussex. - Thanks Trevelyan for "From the Shiffolds", which has given him and his wife 'much pleasure'. The "Epistle to Philip Erasmus" is a 'masterpiece', and has introduced him to a word he did not know though he has 'read most of Hume and Berkeley'. Wonders to whom Trevelyan refers in "Ten Years Ago", 'possibly G.L.D. [Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]'. The "Birds of the Air" is 'good and edifying'; hopes Trevelyan will also try Pompey's Dream [in Lucan?] and Persius 'on his old tutor Cornutus [corrected from Cornelius by hand]. Was a 'great as well as an unexpected pleasure' to see Trevelyan again; they look forward to a visit from him and 'Miss C. W.' [Irene Cooper-Willis ?] when conditions improve'. Postscript that an enclosure [no longer present] may 'amuse' Trevelyan.