Item 236 - Letter from Desmond MacCarthy to R. C. Trevelyan

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25 Wellington Sq. - Is seeing the specialist tomorrow, and if pronounced well enough will join Molly in the Isle of Wight or Rachel at Rockbourne, then is giving a lecture on Lytton Strachey at the Royal Institution on 13th March. After that he may take a long holiday, since his spitting of blood is not tubercular but put down to exhaustion: would very much like to take three months, divided between a voyage and long stays with his friends, and asks if Trevelyan and Bessy could put him up for about three weeks. He would watch them working, play chess, and remember: 'remembering is now an important part of my life'. Begs Trevelyan to start the work which would delight him and is needed since 'classical education is losing its grip': a sort of 'literary Plutarch' giving lives and portraits of the Greek and Roman writers, in prose and verse. Would 'do much to keep the European tradition alive'. Is sorry Logan's [Pearsall Smith] pamphlet is aggravating.