Item 48 - Letter from N. H. Romanes to R. C. Trevelyan

Swaylands. Penshurst, Kent. - Has been reading Trevelyan's translation of Lucretius ["De Rerum Natura"] with 'much interest and appreciation'; asks if he can look at some notes he has written on the text of about forty passages; would greatly value the 'opinion of a real Lucretian scholar' and has not yet managed to obtain one. Encloses a specimen of the "Notes" on two passages from Book One [no longer present]; the other notes are 'equally carefully typed', but on one side of quarto paper only; the example he sends is so short it did not seem worth using two. Trevelyan will understand the symbols he uses in the apparatus, except perhaps one, which he explains; the others are used by 'all modern editions', though not in Munro. If Trevelyan is willing, he will send the remainder.