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Review of Trevelyan's "The Death of Man" from the "Southport Guardian", 21 Aug 1920.

Reviews of the posthumous volume of "Selected Poems" by Trevelyan; several sent by Durrant's Press Cuttings, 29-39, Mount Pleasant, London W.C.1.:

1) from the "Times Literary Supplement", 15 Jan 1954; also including reviews of works by Wilfrid Noyce, Joseph Chiari, Ernest Miles and H. S. Mackintosh
2) from "Time and Tide", 30 Jan 1954; also including reviews of works by Jean Garrigue, A. C. Chant, Ewart Milne
3) from "Truth", 29 Jan 1954, "The Poet's Voyage of Discovery", by Nicholas Newton; including discussion of works by Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, L. E. Jones, Robert Stokes and Adrian Bury
4) not sent by Durrants; pencil annotation [perhaps in Elizabeth Trevelyan's name) dating it to Feb 54 and identifying source as "Brit. Bn [?] News"
5) Cutting of Trevelyan's poem "To Sleep" [no date or publication information]
6) from the "News Chronicle", 9 Apr 1954, article entitled "Happiness is those little things" discusses 'a charming essay by the late R. C. Trevelyan' in the "Golden Horizon"', and inviting readers to send in their own 'simple pleasures' on a postcard, with a prize for those published. Two copies; one with annotation in pen that 'Nan refused to go to the Hospital on June 1st' and signed 'R. S.' [possibly Rosalind Simpkins?]

Newspaper cuttings with reviews, most sent to Trevelyan by Durrant's Press Cuttings Agency from: the Daily Herald; Birmingham Post; Scotsman; Observer [by J. C. Squire, also reviewing a book on poetry by Lascelles Abercrombie]; Glasgow Herald; Daily Express; North Eastern Daily Gazette; Daily Telegraph; Cambria Daily Leader; Nation and Athenaeum [by Vita Sackville-West]; Daily News; Saturday Review; Nottingham Guardian; Spectator [also reviewing Trevelyan's translations of Theocritus and Sophocles' Antigone and mentioning a republication of works on poetry by Samuel Daniel and Thomas Campion; see 26/12/1-2 for correspondence about this review]; Manchester Guardian; Times Literary Supplement [also discussion of works by Daniel, Campion and Sonnenschein]; Poetry Review [by Arthur Hood]; Outlook; Calendar; Adelphi; Clarion [by Thomas Moult]; Western Daily Press; Christian Science Monitor; Nation; Time and Tide [by Thomas Moult]; Nature; New Statesman [also discussing essays on poetry by Edith Sitwell and Robert Graves, by 'Affable Hawk' - Desmond MacCarthy, as is noted in an annotation]; Saturday Review of Literature; New Leader [by C. Henry Warren, also discussing works by Sitwell, Graves, and Abercrombie]; Fortnightly Review [by Robert Graves, on The Future of English Poetry]; Women's Leader & Common Cause; Glasgow Herald [re Graves' 'interesting reply to Mr Robert Trevelyan...']; Nottingham Guardian [also on the debate between Graves and Trevelyan]; New Age; and Richmond and Twickenham Times.

The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking. - Has yet not thanked Bob for his Christmas present; wanted to read it again before he wrote. Very pleased to think that his Leith Hill Woods are 'commemorated' in Bob's poetry. Tells Bob not to refuse if he is 'offered the Laureateship' [a reference to the failing health of Robert Bridges?], as would be his own 'purely unofficial wish', if only to 'keep out that awful woman [Edith Sitwell?]' whom he believes 'thinks she is going to get it.