Volume of letters from a number of correspondents, who are represented by one or two letters each. Many of the correspondents are identified at the top of the page on which the letter is mounted, in the form of an autograph book.
Sem títuloLetters from before the book was published through to many years after publication. Letters include one from "E" [Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher] to A. C. B. [A. C. Benson?], a letter of congratulation on his fellowship from Lord Grey, a letter from Lord Spencer in 1914, a letter from A. V. Dicey to H. M. Butler in July 1914, a cutting from the Morning Post in July 1914, two letters from Frederic G. Kenyon in July 1923, a cutting from The Times dated Feb. 1924, and a letter about a pamphlet referenced in the book from Joseph Hamburger in August 1959.
Newnham Grange, Cambridge. Dated Dec. 22, 1900 - Thanks him for the GB, thanks Lilly Frazer for the postcards; is sending Gwen and Charles to Germany to learn the language; Ryle is the new Bishop of Exeter; the Master's [Henry Montagu Butler] health is not satisfactory; he has asked the college to look into 'too lavish pensions'.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated March 1, 1898 - Congratulates him on the completion of his [Pausanias].
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated February 4th, 1914 - Expresses regret at their departure from Cambridge; assures him they are very proud of him; is a pleasure to remember first learning of him through Frank Galton.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated March 15, 1898 - Sends a letter of their common friend [unidentified] and hopes the Frazers can come May 7th and April 30th, will be having the Archbishop of Armagh and his daughter as houseguests.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated Nov. 9, 1907 - Expresses regret at his departure and confidence that he will do well at the University and the College at Liverpool.
16 Brookside, Cambridge. Dated April 7, 1918 - Thanks him for his condolence letter on the death of her husband Henry Montagu Butler, and thanks Lady Frazer for coming to visit her.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated May 2, 1896 - Congratulates him on his wedding; looks forward to meeting Mrs Frazer.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated May 10th 1899 - Felt not a shadow of neglect by Frazer; tells the story of forgetting to preach a sermon at St Paul's, and received a charming note of absolution in response to his apology.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated Nov. 4th, 1905 - Thanks him for the book ['Lectures on the Early History of Kingship']; thanks for the kind words about Francis Galton, doubts he will ever face another English winter.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated February 13th, 1915 - Thanks him for the books ['Essays of Joseph Addison'?] and admires them, 'even [John Henry] Newman and Dean Church rarely surpass him', quotes Aldis Wright as saying that for narrative purposes he thought Froude the best stylist, knows Frazer thinks Macaulay is a great narrator; Whewell's Court has 400 Privates, and for their final Parade the Colonel of the Welshmen put Butler's grandson David Morley Fletcher on his horse from Great Gate to the Lodge, is pleased no vote of censure was proposed for this action by the Council.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated Jan. 7 1917 - Offers the six volume edition of Addison's Works edited by Bishop Hurd, published in 1811, which belonged to his father [George Butler] and possibly grandfather [Weeden Butler]; has had bronchial catarrh for two months.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated Jan. 10, 1917 - The Addison [Works by Hurd, he is giving as a gift] will be with him soon; thinks the MS pages found in vol. 5 belong to his grandfather Rev. Weeden Butler, who visited [William] Dodd at Newgate and who accompanied him to the scaffold; and who was visited by [Edmund?] Burke.
St Keyne's, Cambridge. Dated Nov. 13, 1905 - Thanks him for the congratulations on the new post; is sorry to hear the invitation to the Barnardo Meeting miscarried, the Master of Trinity [Henry Montagu Butler] was eloquent; sends an article [transcribed] on the double birth of Dionysus, would like his opinion on Semele; Miss [Jane] Harrison was at first convinced but now has doubts.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated May 23, 1911 - Congratulates Frazer on the honour in Germany [being appointed a Corresponding Member of the Berlin Academy]. Accompanied by a typescript note identifying the honour.
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge Dated August 5, 1916 - Thanks him for his letter of condolence on the death of his son [Gordon]; describes 'bright letters' written in the two weeks before, and his collapse due to blood poisoning; Jim [James R. M. Butler] was with him is coming home on leave; hopes all is well with Frazer's young soldier kinsman.
3 Cavendish Terrace, Princes Park, Liverpool. Dated Oct. 22, 1913 - Thanks him for 'The Scapegoat'; repeats a joke his son Dick made about planting his knife in 'The Golden Bough' to open its secrets; the Master [of Trinity] sent round some verses; saw J. S. Reid who spoke mainly of Robertson [Robinson?] Ellis; [J. P.] Postgate was visiting and Carey revealed to him his son's [Raymond Postgate's] violent socialist opinions, which were a shock; Edgar Browne is publishing a new book.
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Envelope, labelled in Elizabeth Trevelyan's hand ' Some Autobiographical dates rlg [?: relating to] R. C. T.', containing: one sheet and four fragments of paper with autobiographical dates in pencil in Robert Trevelyan's hand, and an ink copy of the complete sheet in Elizabeth Berenson's hand; an obituary ["Times", Jul 31, 1905] of Theodore Llewelyn Davies, including comments from Henry Montagu Butler, as well as another cutting about Llewelyn Davies's death; several pages of the September 1905 issue of "Land Values" containing an obituary of Theodore Llewelyn Davies.
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Six copies of a tribute by 'M.N.' to R. C. Trevelyan, under the title "Love of Nature and of Literature", "Times", 4 April 1951.
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Three copies of an article by Desmond MacCarthy about the poetry of R. C. Trevelyan, under the title "Overlooked", "Sunday Times, 31 Dec 1950
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Three copies of poem, "In Memory of R. C. Trevelyan", by Kenneth Hopkins, "Everybody's Weekly", 14 Apr 1951 [date and magazine title written in by hand, on two copies probably by Elizabeth Trevelyan].
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Three copies of "An Appreciation" in the "Manchester Guardian", 24 Mar 1951, by 'S.S' [Sylvia Sprigge?]; the last copy perhaps sent by Johannes Röntgen, as per the annotation.
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Six copies of an obituary of R. C. Trevelyan by Desmond MacCarthy, "Sunday Times", 1 April 1951, including the text of Trevelyan's last poem, sent to MacCarthy 'a few weeks before his death' [see 16/76]
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Review in "Time and Tide" by C[icely] V[eronica] Wedgwood of F.L. Lucas's "Greek Poetry for Everyman" and Trevelyan's "Translations from Greek Poetry", published under the title "A Foreigner in Arcady".
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Appreciation by Desmond MacCarthy of "The Poetry of Robert Trevelyan", "Empire Review" [undated: 1924?] pp 412-423.
Bath. Prefers the family portrait of H M Butler to the ones at Trinity.
Bath. Is unsure what to do with the portrait of H M Butler if Trinity does not want it.
Bath. Portrait of H M Butler given by Harrow to the Butler family which he looked after while he was at Harrow.
Thanks J R M Butler for a photograph of his father.
thanks J R M Butler for congratulations, accepts the offer of a photograph of H M Butler
Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Marked 'Private'. Wants to tell Bob and Bessie before they see it in the press that he is to be Master of Trinity: the Prime Minister's letter came today and he will reply with his acceptance on Sunday. The Fellows are anxious for him to accept, particularly as it is not clear 'whom Winston would appoint' if George refused and there are some plausible candidates they do not want. 'Everybody concerned has been so kind' that George 'cannot leave them in the lurch'; Janet insists he must accept, though he knows she 'will be the loser'. He 'did not want to be Master', and doubts he would ever have accepted if peace had continued, but he feels that he has 'no other war work... of any real importance', and Hallington has been taken over by the R.A.F.; feels he must try. Finds it a 'tragi-comic irony' that the 'crash of civilization' has put him in the Lodge of 'Montagu Butler and Whewell and Bentley''; though they will not move in until January 'and meanwhile it may be destroyed by a bomb!'.
Trinity College Cambridge - covering letter only, returning letters from Sir James George Frazer to his father Henry Montagu Butler. [Letters are FRAZ/1/4-21 in the collection.]
The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Thanks his father for sending back the Maupassants [see 46/338], and also for the Saturday Review. He and Bessie were very much interested in his father's letter 'as a delightful bit of biography and autobiography', as was his 'chapter in the Life of Dr Butler [The Harrow Life of Henry Montagu Butler]'. Wonders where the quote about 'Gladstone rising to make his reply to Disraeli' came from;: 'perhaps from Morley's Life [of Gladstone]'.
The only time he himself 'ever saw or heard Disraeli' was when his mother took him, he thinks 'as a boy of seven or eight... into the Ladies' Gallery [at the House of Commons]'; of course he has 'only a very dim recollection of him', especially since his short-sightedness meant he 'could not see him distinctly'.
'[B]eautiful Spring weather here today', with the leaves 'coming out everywhere, though not on the oaks yet'. Has 'just been assisting Julian to shave himself'; he now has to shave 'twice or even three times a week'.