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TRER/14/151
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Letter from George Macaulay Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 20 Oct 1939 (Creation)
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Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Thanks Bob for the 'splendid' second volume [of his "Collected Works"], which will join Dante's "Inferno", Shakespeare, Boccaccio 'in the task of propping, in these bad days, [George's] mind'. Reopens the letter to add a postscript saying that he has just read "A Custom of Thrace", which is 'very fine'; the 'last page of the book is very fine indeed'.
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- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321), Italian poet (Subject)
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), playwright and poet (Subject)
- Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–1375), Italian poet and scholar (Subject)
- Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville (1881-1975) Knight, humourist and writer (Subject)