Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Thanks Robert for sending [Richard Winn Livingstone's] "The Greek Genius and its Meaning to Us"; Sir George's current reading of Herodotus has brought that home, with 'the description of the barbarous cruelties, and personal bloody despotism, of the Orientals - and the degraded and irrational superstitions and worship of Egypt' emphasising what the Greek victory over Persia 'saved the world from'. Thinks Walter Leaf, who visited last week, is probably right that the last five books of Herodotus were written first. They have had a 'perfectly delightful "Collins"' from Julian, who uses the word 'enjoyment' or enjoying' five times; it is a 'first-rate thing' not to be afraid of repeating a word if it is sincerely meant.
Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Glad to have Robert and Elizabeth's letters; Caroline has been 'enjoying sunrises as varied and beautiful' as Elizabeth hopes. Aunt Annie is here and shows Caroline 'an exquisite devotion'; he himself is 'quite laid up in bed' but it has been kept from Caroline how unwell he has been, so Robert and Elizabeth must be careful how they write about him. Glad Robert likes [Richard] Livingstone's "Greece". They read all said about Julian by his parents 'with sympathy and pleasure'.
Addresses by the Orator given at the installation of the Chancellor, and at Congregation for the award of honorary degrees to Cyril Forster Garbett, Winston Churchill, Geoffrey Hare Clayton, Norman Alexander Robertson, Leif Egeland, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps; Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington; Charles Seymour; John Forbes Cameron; Sir Hugh Lett; Sir William Wilson Jameson; Sir Richard Winn Livingstone; Sir Robert Robinson, Sir Paul Gordon Fildes, and Arnold Joseph Toynbee.