Item 80 - Letter from Arthur Ponsonby to R. C. Trevelyan

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TRER/18/80

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Letter from Arthur Ponsonby to R. C. Trevelyan

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  • [Aug/Sept 1923] (Creation)

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Shulbrede Priory, Lynchmere, Haslemere. - Thanks Trevelyan for his 'most useful letter', particularly since he is compiling a second volume of English [diaries] as well as the 'Scotch and Irish' [both books were published in 1927; Ponsonby's first volume on "English Diaries" in 1923]. Would be grateful if Trevelyan could lend him Zachary Macaulay's book; has got [George] Crabbe now, as well as Dorothy Wordsworth, his 'only really bad miss'; will look up [William?] Allingham and Thelwall. Think 'slightyness' certainly ought to be 'flightyness'; would have liked to have it corrected for the second edition but is too late; is happy with the other reading for which Trevelyan suggests a correction. Asks Trevelyan to let him know if he thinks of any more diaries; has found many good ones he missed before, and 'some quite amusing MSS are coming in'. They [he and his wife Dolly?] have just been to visit Logan [Pearsall Smith] at Chilling, which is a 'perfectly delightful place'; Logan seemed very well.

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      29/21: exercise book with diary entries by R. C. Trevelyan, in which he mentions his reading of Ponsonby's "English Diaries", his intention of writing to Ponsonby, and his receipt of this letter in reply.

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