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- 24 Dec 1940 (Creation)
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Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Thanks Bob for his "Letter to Joan" [Allen, in Bob's privately printed "From the Shiffolds"]: it is a great thing to be able to express what one feels 'in this utter dissolution of all things that are good', and one needs to be, as Bob is, 'both poet and philosopher'. He himself is 'neither, creatively', but finds comfort in great poetry. Has been reading "[King] Lear", as well as [A.C] Bradley and Granville-Barker on the play. Feels "Lear" has a 'happy ending' even without [Nahum] Tate's alterations, since '[a]ll the bad people are killed and most of the good left to rule the land. In the real world this does not happen'. Notes in a postscript that the people at Wallington 'seem friendly & happy: Molly [is] much happier'.
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- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Allen, Marjory (1897-1976), landscape architect and promoter of child welfare, wife of the 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood (Subject)
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), playwright and poet (Subject)
- Bradley, Andrew Cecil (1851-1935), literary scholar (Subject)
- Barker, Harley Granville Granville- (1877-1946) theatre director and playwright (Subject)
- Tate, Nahum (1652-1715) poet, playwright and translator (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Mary Katharine (1881-1966), political hostess and voluntary worker, wife of Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bt (Subject)