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- 25 Sept 1946 (Creation)
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1 item. Typed with autograph signature.
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2 Garrick's Villa, Hampton, Middlesex. - Is glad that Bessie will be at the Shiffolds when he visits; asks if he can stay till Tuesday or Wednesday; they will certainly play chess. Is bringing something to read aloud to Bessie which he hopes will make her laugh. Expects he will miss 'the silent Miss Simpkins'. Asks if the Wedgwoods [Ralph and Iris] are at home. Dining with George [Trevelyan] last night, who was 'brisk' like Henry Sidgwick as remembered by MacCarthy and Trevelyan, and was not wearing any teeth. They discussed autobiographies and historians; George confessed he had never read Gibbon's "[Decline and Fall of the] Roman Empire"; MacCarthy did not tell him that one of his favourite autobiographies was 'that of Robert Calverly Trevelyan' [sic] as he is not sure if it is finished; his own is 'rather good, but rather scrappy'.
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- MacCarthy, Sir Charles Otto Desmond (1877-1952), knight, literary reviewer and drama critic (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Wedgwood, Iris Veronica (1887–1982), Lady Wedgwood, writer (Subject)
- Wedgwood, Sir Ralph Lewis (1874-1956) 1st Baronet, railway administrator (Subject)
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900), philosopher (Subject)
- Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794) historian (Subject)