Item 218 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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On headed notepaper for the Harrow Philathletic Club, with 'The Grove, Harrow' added in Robert Trevelyan's hand:- Thanks his mother for her letter and 'advice about the paper-knife [belonging to the Harrow Philathletic Club, see 45/217]; will send her the old broken one so that she can see what the replacement should be like; there is a crest on it which he expects could be copied. Thinks the old one could still be 'made into a useful sort of knife', though of course he must still replace it.

The weather has been very fine today, though there has been a wind. He and Georgie are well; Georgie plays [cricket] regularly in his second eleven, and Robert 'can always get a game' when he wants. '[The by-election result in] North Bucks was very good'; wonders if they [the Liberal Party] will also do well at 'this other election [Paisley, or West Derbyshire, both in early June 1891]' though he supposes they 'cannot win it'.

Hopes Charlie's 'club dinner' will go well; asks if he will make a speech at it. The school has 'had a whole holiday stopped for disturbances at bell'; Welldon may have 'had no other course left open'. but Robert tends to think that it was 'due to the folly and weakness of an incompetent master'. No other news. Sends love to his father in a postscript.