Item 188 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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[On headed notepaper for 8 Grosvenor Crescent, S.W.:]- Sanderson has decided that he can come on Thursday, so he will come up with Stogdon, Robert and Charlie, Sanderson said his father wanted Robert's father to write to him about it; Robert does not know if the fathers know each other. The address is "Kininvie House, Dufftown, N[orth] B[ritain.

They have just had 'about the most exciting house match ever played at Harrow', beating Stogdon's house, who are very good 'by one run' despite the fact that they only have Pope and Oppenheim 'with any reputation'. Harrison 'bowled exceedingly well, and got his cap'; Oppenheim made 38 and 40 runs and 'got his sixth-form coat'. Robert 'made 7 and 0, which was not very good'. His team had given up the game when suddenly five wickets fell for no runs, at 103, leaving Stogdon's 9 to make with the last wicket. Robert's house will now have to play a strong house, and 'will probably be beaten. Still, there is hope'.

Is getting on all right in trials. Is 'ready to agree about the new arrangement for seeing [E.P.?] Arnold', but wonders how they will go to Eastbourne; asks if that plan is now 'given up'; hopes his grandfather is 'quite well still'; wonders if she means that they will 'go there on Wednesday'. Now has to go for a three-hour 'stupid Greek Testament trial of which [he knows] nothing'.