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- 28 Dec 1956 (Creation)
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On headed notepaper for Kings College Cambridge, with note 'Coventry actually, where I am spending Christmas and New Year with the Buckinghams. - Thanks Bessie for her card and letter; is glad she is 'as comfortable as these uncomfortable times allow. The Suez imbecility has robbed us of both comfort and honour, and I do resent being deprived of both'.
Is well in himself, and still has 'enough money to stem the rising tide of prices', but is unsure how long that will continue; the 'transport problem is an immediate vexation'. Is very glad to have 'got to Greece in the spring', and Leiden for a week more recently.
Unfortunately Florence [Barger] 'lacks her old strength, and has to live more quietly'; Harriet 'looks after her splendidly', and Evert has 'a good and totally new job in London' so will settle there. Has 'satisfactory news of G. M. T. from [George Trevelyan's son] Humphry.
Had a 'charming and unexpected invitation' to eat Christmas dinner with George Moore and his wife; could not accept as he was going to Coventry. 'Various other professorial or semi-professorial lame or semi-lame dogs' would also have been there, 'an unusual and probably most agreeable occasion'. Kings 'seems to have started off well under its new Provost, Noel Annan. Provost [J. T.] Sheppard is in Texas!'
Encloses a Hungarian Relief card, which he 'only got by writing direct to the Lord Mayor [of London, Sir Cullum Welch, who launched the fund]. The Trash [perhaps the Times?] has boycotted it - really disgusting'.
Sends much love, and hopes to see her 'when things get easier - and may they!'.
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- Forster, Edward Morgan (1879-1970), novelist and essayist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Buckingham, Robert Joseph (1904-1975), policeman, lover of E.M. Forster (Subject)
- Buckingham, May (1908-) nurse, wife of Bob Buckingham (Subject)
- Barger, Florence Emily (1879-1960), inspector of schools (Subject)
- Barger, Evert Hugh (1910-1975), historian (Subject)
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Charles Humphry (1909-1964), lecturer in German and author (Subject)
- Moore, George Edward (1873–1958), philosopher (Subject)
- Moore, Dorothy (1892-1977) wife of G. E. Moore (Subject)
- Annan, Noel Gilroy (1916-2000), Baron Annan, historian and academic administrator (Subject)
- Sheppard, Sir John Tresidder (1881-1968) Knight, Provost of King's College Cambridge (Subject)
- Welch, Sir George James Cullum (1895-1980), 1st Baronet, army officer and Lord Mayor of London (Subject)