Item 173 - Letter from George Macaulay Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan

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Hallington Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne. - Is here arranging about the takeover of the house by the [Royal] Air Force for the duration of the war, a 'small thing, in this doomsday', but one he would have 'minded a year ago'; doubts whether Janet will be able to live here again, and he loves the house. Encloses a letter from Gilbert Murray: in response to the appeal to help Mrs [Elena] Vivante, George has written to the Home Office about her husband [Leone] and two sons [Arturo and Paulo], but does not know them personally. Believes that Bob knows Leone Vivante well, so asks if he could write a letter as suggested in the first part of Murray's letter, which Elena can use in her attempts to secure to get her husband and the son now on the Isle of Man [Arturo] released. Bob could either send it to Elena, or to Gilbert Murray, or to George himself, who plans to add a letter of his own about the 'known anti-Fascist fame of the family (Lauro de Bosis' death etc). Notes in a postscript that he 'hardly dare[s] to think about Holland - and Bessie. The world is a worse nightmare than imagination could have devised'.