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Addressed to Count Teleki at Pest.

Congratulations on engagement.

Eton College - Thanks WW for his translations ['Verse Translations from the German, including Lenore, Schiller's Song of the Bell', 1847] which he read with great pleasure. ECH is not really qualified to comment on WW's view of Aristotle but agrees with what WW has said. The Times - 'that clever but unprincipled favourer of the majority in Power' - has made ECH fear Lord John Russell's projected plan for the University: 'But it is better not to anticipate evil, which will come soon enough'.

Savoy. - Yesterday's news [of Helen] was the best so far: she is sleeping much more again, though her pulse is still high. Fry cannot write much since he is suffering from inflammation of the cornea as he was two years ago. Is too busy about a house to come to Roundhurst.

Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey. - Explains that musical emphasis is very different from that of prosody: though Tovey's music [for "The Bride of Dionysus"] may often retain Trevelyan's 'verse-rhythms'. it will not express 'verse-technique', and Tovey may often omit words in the more dramatic passages as he composes. Tovey's version of the text will only appear in the score, without comment, which would draw attention to these small differences to the text. More general comments on his objection to 'song-composers setting poetry to Wagnerian musical prose' due to the 'confusion between dramatic & lyric rhythm'. Sends 'respects to Sisyphus' [Trevelyan's poem "Sisyphus: an operatic fable"?] and encourages him to press on and not worry too much about the quality of jokes at the moment. A postscript notes that he will pencil some stage directions into Trevelyan's copy before he returns it; another asks if an addition can be made to Minos' first speech; a third suggests that Mercy might be called 'Daughter of Justice'.

Trinity [on headed notepaper for the Harrow Philathletic Club]:- Thanks his mother for her letter and the half sovereign. Is afraid the paper 'was not as good as it ought to have been, in fact it was very bad indeed'. It is 'bound to be a failure', as 'every sensible person' thought long before it came out. Sees Kipling has a new book of ballads out [Barrack-Room Ballads], which are 'said to be very good' and seem to be from what he has seen of them.

Will have to arrange a day soon to come and see Woodhouse [his dentist], who says after this visit Robert's teeth should be 'right for a very long time'. Does not think he will get Hurst's rooms, so will probably have to wait for Charlie's. Hopes his father is well, and 'will soon have the satisfaction of hearing that [the Liberals] have won North Hackney [in a by-election]'. Hopes G[eorgie] is well at Harrow.

Finds he knows so much about Waterloo that he thinks he will 'have to go to America to lecture on it'. Thinks that Aunt Alice is coming to the Myers' house next Sunday.

Newspaper cuttings with reviews, many sent to Trevelyan by Durrant's Press Cuttings agency, other poets' work sometimes also reviewed from: the "Birmingham Post"; "Daily Telegraph"; "Scotsman"; "Sunday Times"; "Devon & Exeter Gazette"; "Aberdeen Press and Journal"; "Nation and Athenaeum"; "New Statesman"; "Irish Statesman"; "Southport Guardian"; "Spectator"; "Western Morning News & Mercury"; "Manchester Guardian" [a review, and a later article on "Verse in 1927" discussing Trevelyan's play amongst other pieces]; "Poetry"; "Saturday Review"; "Observer"."Empire Review"; "Inquirer"; "Bookman"

Text on recto, with corrections and additions on facing pages.

Cutting from the "Evesham Journal" sent to Charles Philips Trevelyan.

Signed by Leonard Woolf for the Hogarth Press and by R. C. Trevelyan. Annotations by hand to clause 3, specifying a minimum commission of five pounds to be paid by the author to the publishers, and to clause 4, granting Trevelyan permission to include the work in any collected edition in future, as long as this is at least twelve months from the date of this agreement.

45 Chesterton Road - 'Romany' letter from Dennis Robertson, Rosalind [Murray]'s bookplate.

131 Banbury Road, Oxford. - "Sisyphus" is 'delightful and extraordinary'; has only just read it as when it arrived he was about to leave for Italy and by mistake it did not go with him. Likes it better than anything else by Trevelyan he knows: 'so individual... has such a strange blend of grotesqueness and beauty running through it - very Aristophanic in some ways'. Though the 'queer broken-backed metres... bothered [him]' for a while, they fit the theme. Is a little disappointed in the 'Artemis-chastity point': even he 'would not have accepted such an oath, and Sisyphus had much more knowledge of the world than a don'. Wonders about performance: no doubt Trevelyan has music; to Murray's taste 'music will bedevil and ruin it' but others would not agree. Would be expensive if there is much music; if not, suggests sending it to Charles Strachey or to GBS [George Bernard Shaw] for the Stage Society. Does not know Trevelyan's address, so is sending it to his brother [George?].

The Loke House, West Road, Cambridge - Offers congratulations, apologises for not calling in person.

28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13. - Will deliver the material [for the Frazer Lectures volume] to the printer on Tuesday; has a number of questions about Egyptian words in Rivet's essay and has written for clarification; encloses a draft of the Introduction and asks for changes or additions; has been working hard as he would like to see it published in October.

Thanks Trevelyan for his letter revealing that he, Pearsall Smith, and others had considered nominating Abercrombie for a prize [the Nobel]. Is overwhelmed by the compliment, and is inspired to try poetry again, having previously given up his ambitions in that regard. Delighted to hear the news of Julian's engagement [to Ursula Darwin].

2 The Residences - Is planning to come up to King's for a rest on doctor's orders, looks forward to seeing Frazer.

Venice. - Is very sorry to hear the news [the death of the Trevelyan's daughter Susan] and hopes Elizabeth Trevelyan is all right; would like to hear. Is having a good time, and hopes to go on to various other Italian towns such as Ferrara, Ravenna and Faenza.

77 rue Gambetta, Loos [on mourning stationery] - Congratulates Frazer on the new honour [Order of Merit]; is at the conferences given by the University of Lille on the relationship between French and English scholars where Frazer is not forgotten; 'Le Folklore dans l'Ancien Testament' is published, may the reviews be kind to the translator.

[headed notepaper] Secretary for Scotland, Dover House, Whitehall. - Thanks Robert for his letter; has told Caroline about the train. Will be at Welcombe and very glad to see him. Sir George is responsible for recommending a candidate to the Queen for the new professorship of English Literature at Aberdeen, which must be filled before the end of the year; will be happy to hear frim Mr [Walter?] Raleigh.

Enclosing sketch of birds by Hon. Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, at p. 119.