MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letters between T. B. M. and his nephew George Trevelyan in 1859. He died in December. His nephew lived till Aug. 1928'. A later note records 'I have given his last letter to G[eorge] O[tto], Nov. 22 1859, to Cockerell for the Fitzwilliam [Museum]'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letters between T. B. M. and his nephew George Trevelyan in 1859. He died in December. His nephew lived till Aug. 1928'. A later note records 'I have given his last letter to G[eorge] O[tto], Nov. 22 1859, to Cockerell for the Fitzwilliam [Museum]'.
Note at the top of the letter in G. O. Trevelyan's hand (identified by G. M. Trevelyan): "Among his writing papers. The pencil notes at the end are his, probably jottings relating to his investments and dividends'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet3 Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge. - Has read Gow's 'sketch of Housman'; points out 'two small errors'.
Offers his congratulations.
Re 'Dates of Housman Poems'.
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.
17 Rosemount Road, Richmond, Surrey. Dated Feb. 27th, 1901 - Encloses a letter from Wilfrid Blunt [transcribed] from Sheykh Obeyd, near Cairo, Feb. 14, 1901 sharing a story of the heart of a wolf being given to a boy it had attacked, and hairs from the wolf being eaten by an old woman also bitten by the wolf.
3 Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge. - 'You are undoubtedly right. Seven Pillars is the title...'
Congratulates Trevy [on his engagement] and wishes him 'all happiness'; on hearing about it beforehand from [Charles] Holmes and [Laurence] Binyon, who had heard through [Sydney] Cockerell and Trevy's cousins the Fletchers, he had 'refused to believe it' due to what Trevy had told him about 'Mrs Costello[e] having tried to put about such stories'. However, when his sister heard the same from Miss [Bonté?] Amos, who said she had got the news from Trevy's mother, he 'had to allow it might be true'. Thinks Trevy will 'make a good husband', but that he will 'spoil all [his] children with indulgence' and thinks he should start being 'very stern' with himself so that he is able to look 'cross' enough at them; knows he is talking 'as if the little Homers and Aeschylluses [sic] and a Sappho or two were bound to turn up' and hopes they will. Keen to meet Trevy's fiancé; hopes she is not 'too like George' and suggests that the only indication which Trevy has given as to what she is like ''is very misleading and puts one deeper into darkness than total ignorance'. Asks how long Trevy has know her, and if she is 'connected with the admirers of the Dutch Milton [Vondel?]' whom he met at Taormina. Is to get a hundred pounds for editing Shakespeare [for the Vale Press] and fears it will take up a lot of time, so cannot promise to write an epithalamium. [Roger] Fry is 'of course quite wrong about Bellini', whom Moore admires as much as Fry does, but denies that he is 'characterised by passion by pathos or by Virgillian [sic] melancholy'; Bellini is a 'far greater master than Altdorfer' though Fry seemed to think he was comparing them. Sorry that Trevy is troubling to copy out Moore's "Danaë"; he could easily have got two copies made; hopes he will 'suggest how the hard sentences can be made easy, & the crooked straight, at the same time as pointing out their deficiency'. Hopes Trevy's fiancée 'will prove a Muse... though she is not going to enter the lists as a rival'.
On printed headed notepaper of J. Burnaby, Junior Bursar, Trinity. Signed by Sydney C. Cockerell, [director of the Fitzwilliam Museum].
Fitzwilliam Museum - Sends a copy of Professor Chew's article in 'The North American Review' [not present] by Chew's request in case he should wish to comment on it.
(An engraved form, filled up by hand, including an engraving of the Museum by E. H. New, 1910.)
Acknowledges receipt of a Newton letter dated 3 July 1684. With later note below, 'Received again by Trinity 20 Mar. 1990. DMcK [David McKitterick, Librarian of Trinity College].