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On headed notepaper for The Grove, Harrow:- Has received the hamper from his grandfather and replied to him; apologises for being late in answering her letter. Still does not think he is 'doing well in the examinations, but it cannot be helped'; will not mind much if he comes out low. Welldon wants Robert to 'go in for a scholarship at Trinity at the end of this year', so he will 'read with an end to that'.
Will be very glad to go home, as now the examinations are nearly over there is nothing interesting going on. Saw [Henry] Irving and Ellen Terry 'driving through Harrow last Sunday', he thinks to see Welldon, 'but they did not stay long. Hopes to 'see them again soon' [at Macbeth].
Is entering his house's competition for the hundred yards, which he would 'like to get very much', but nothing else. Charlie is well. His house were gymnastics champions, and Robert's not far behind in second. After that there was the competition for boxing champion, 'a very good fight, full of black eyes and bloody noses, in which the smaller beat the bigger'.
Hopes his father is well. Is 'very sorry about Bright' [John Bright died on 27 Mar 1889]; 'would like to have seen him once', but does not remember ever having done so.
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With pencil note dating the letter to 1889.
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- Trevelyan, Caroline (c. 1847-1928), wife of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Subject)
- Philips, Robert Needham (1815-1890) merchant, manufacturer and politician (Subject)
- Welldon, James Edward Cowell (1854-1937) clergyman and scholar (Subject)
- Irving, Sir Henry (1838-1905), knight, actor (Subject)
- Terry, Dame Alice Ellen (1847-1928), actress (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Bright, John (1811–1889), politician (Subject)