Pièce 68 - Letter from Oswald B. Powell to R. C. Trevelyan

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Little Hawsted, Kiln Lane, Headington Quarry, Oxford. - Very pleased to have Trevelyan's 'little volume'; apologises for not replying sooner, since they have been 'a bit snowed under with no domestic help' and his Land Army girl only coming in the afternoon; the cold makes more work outside, with 'frozen goat buckets & such like', and the goats 'prefer their greenfood [sic] to be melted in the kitchen'. Despite all the time spent on Greek and Latin at school, he 'never got really familiar with them'; he is 'turning to the "Aeneid" again', after reading [Maurice] Bowra's 'book on the epic ["From Virgil to Milton"]'; with which Trevelyan's 'reference to V[irgil]'s dying wishes clicked'. Is reading Goldie [Lowes Dickinson]'s "Modern Symposium" aloud to Margaret; it 'does mean well'; hopes it is 'being read by the present generation & by the many visitors [they] have been having'. They are going next week to Dartington to 'make music with Imogen Holst & her party'; would like to visit Peter [Grant] Watson while there but fears it might be difficult as they do not have a car yet.