(A quatrain from FitzGerald’s Omar Khayyam (‘The Moving Finger writes …’).)
MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letter of T. B. M. to his mother 1821. Quoted in Life and Letters [of Lord Macaulay by G. O. Trevelyan]'. Pencil note at top of letter: 'Very pretty'.
Written from Trinity. On the illness of his brother John, and the pleasure of being nursed by one's mother.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letter of T. B. M. to his father on being elected University Scholar, 1821'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letter of T. B. M. to his father, 1820. Not in the Life [and Letters of Lord Macaulay by G. O. Trevelyan]'.
Written from Trinity. Illness of George Stainforth.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay on T.B.M. winning the Cambridge Prize Poem (Pompeii] 1819'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letter from TBM to his father, 1820, from Cambridge, on withdrawal of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against Queen Caroline. Quoted in Life and Letters [of Lord Macaulay by G. O. Trevelyan] Sealed with the Macaulay crest -a boot'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note below the letter 'Letter from Zachary Macaulay to his son T. B. M, aet. [aged] 15'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note below the letter 'From Hannah More to Macaulay as a boy'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letters of G. O. Trevelyan to Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, & Sir Walter, at Wallington, 1) about his election for Tynemouth 1865, 2) His Garibaldian adventure 1867'
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Letters of G. O. Trevelyan to Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, & Sir Walter, at Wallington, 1) about his election for Tynemouth 1865, 2) His Garibaldian adventure 1867'
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'A very curious letter of J L Hammond of Trinity to G O Trevelyan on the proceedings of the Macaulay Statue C[ommitt]ee and Whewell's relation to it, especially his own proposal for a row of bronze statues facing the river!'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetA note at the bottom of the third page directs the reader to 'See at end of letter of Dec. '42' [pasted in above this one] for the conclusion of this letter.
MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below this letter: 'Copy of letters of Macaulay to his American friend Everett. 1842 and 1854' [the months, 'Dec' and 'May', are written beneath the years].
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetNote at the bottom of this letter: 'NB. This is the earliest letter or note of any kind which I find in my father's papers'.
'Close of letter of May 30 1854' is also given: 'let us occasionally, as you propose, exchange a few lines. God bless you. Ever yours affectionately, T. B. Macaulay'. This letter is pasted in below.
MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below this letter and another on the same page: 'Copy of letters of Macaulay to his American friend Everett. 1842 and 1854' [the months, 'Dec' and 'May', are written beneath the years].
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Copy of a letter from Macaulay to Everett - Nov. 1854'
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Copies of two letters of Macaulay to his American friend Everett, 1849'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetNote in pencil at the top of the letter: 'Dear Sir, There is no Intelligence on Public Affairs in this letter, but I have thought, as you had seen another from the same source, I would send it'.
MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Copies of two letters of Macaulay to his American friend Everett, 1849'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Pages of the MS of Macaulay's History. Last vol.'
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Copy of a letter of L[or]d Macaulay to Whewell, Nov 1859, the month before he died. (in handwriting of G. O. T[revelyan]'.
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]'.
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 poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan pasted in at the bottom of the page: 'T. B. M's note to his sister Fanny about his nephew George Trevelyan's prize epigram at Cambridge.'
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'T.B.M.'s letter about his nephew George Trevelyan at Cambridge. Last side very interesting about old and new methods of scholarship at Cambridge. Donaldson and Shilleto were famous Cambridge 'coaches'. As to the last sentence, [approving that G. O. Trevelyan lives in 'an atmosphere reeking with Carlylism, Ruskinism, Browningism, and other equally noxious isms, without the slightest taint of the morbific virus'.] a year or two after Macaulay's death (Dec. 1859), his nephew George's favourite modern writers (barring T.B.M. were precisely Carlyle, Browning and Ruskin, and always remained so'. A note added at a later date reads: 'In 1860, after his uncle's death, GOT did coach with Shilleto, as letters from him to Shilleto show'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poetMS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'T.B.M. to his sister Hannah Lady Trevelyan. These were the days when he discovered how seriously ill he was. See Life [and Letters of Lord Macaulay, G. O. Trevelyan] Chap. XIII'.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet