Identity area
Reference code
TRER/17/37
Title
Letter from Arthur Waley to R. C. Trevelyan
Date(s)
- [1917-1918?] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
British Museum. - His brother 'who paints and is at Romford' [Hubert] has written the enclosed essay [now no longer present: perhaps the "Revival of Aesthetics"?] in the 'leisure of the [army training?] camp' and asked him to send Trevelyan a copy, as 'one of the few intelligent people who would not scold him for not having read Benedetto Croce & Aristotle'.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Arthur Waley's brother Hubert joined the Artists Rifles reserve battalion of the London Regiment in August 1917 - see National Archives WO 363/W30 - the camp was at Hare Hall, Romford. An essay of his, "A Revival of Aesthetics", was published by the Hogarth Press in 1926. See also 17/58.