Pièce 66 - Letter from Charles Philips Trevelyan to Sir George Otto Trevelyan

8 Grosvenor Crescent. - Is delighted by the news from Bob: [his engagement to Elizabeth] sounds like a 'very good match for him'. Had hoped that Bob, having 'got through his first youth', would find someone 'really nice', as he is 'so attractive in many ways'. 'After [Sir Charles?] Dalrymple's', is at Wallington until Friday 8th [December]; has engagements which will keep him in Yorkshire till the 15th or 16th though he could get back on the 15th if necessary; then has almost no engagements till the end of January and intends to keep clear of political ones. Has promised to lecture at Cambo on 22 and Rothbury on 27 December. Due to its extreme opposition to the government [re the Second Boer War] the circulation of the "Daily Chronicle' has fallen by half, and 'Lloyd's have had to give [Henry] Massingham his conge [the sack]!'