Item 186 - Letter from George G. Loane to R. C. Trevelyan

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TRER/17/186

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Letter from George G. Loane to R. C. Trevelyan

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  • 31 Dec 1944 (Creation)

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Woodthorpe, The Thrupp, Nr. Stroud, Glos. - Has now read through Trevelyan's 'valuable gift' [his translations of the "Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil"], and admires its 'fidelity to the original & its sustained excellence of style'. Prefers the "read more

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21/107b: translation of "Virgil's Garden", by Edward Fitzgerald, written out by George. G. Loane and originally sent as an enclosure with this letter.

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