Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 27 Sept 1940 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Marked 'Private'. Wants to tell Bob and Bessie before they see it in the press that he is to be Master of Trinity: the Prime Minister's letter came today and he will reply with his acceptance on Sunday. The Fellows are anxious for him to accept, particularly as it is not clear 'whom Winston would appoint' if George refused and there are some plausible candidates they do not want. 'Everybody concerned has been so kind' that George 'cannot leave them in the lurch'; Janet insists he must accept, though he knows she 'will be the loser'. He 'did not want to be Master', and doubts he would ever have accepted if peace had continued, but he feels that he has 'no other war work... of any real importance', and Hallington has been taken over by the R.A.F.; feels he must try. Finds it a 'tragi-comic irony' that the 'crash of civilization' has put him in the Lodge of 'Montagu Butler and Whewell and Bentley''; though they will not move in until January 'and meanwhile it may be destroyed by a bomb!'.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Trinity College, Cambridge (Subject)
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965), knight, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Janet Penrose (1879-1956), author (Subject)
- Butler, Henry Montagu (1833-1918), college head (Subject)
- Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science (Subject)
- Bentley, Richard (1662-1742), philologist and classical scholar (Subject)
- Royal Air Force (RAF) (Subject)