Item 219 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

On headed notepaper for the Harrow Philathletic Club, with 'The Grove, Harrow' added in Robert Trevelyan's hand:- Should have written before. The paper knife [for the Harrow Philathletic Club, see 45/217-218] has come, and he is sure it will do very well; the club will keep the old one 'for the present, and probably for ever'. Asks her if she wants him to send his greatcoat home; will ask Mrs Dungate [the housekeeper] to pack it up if so. Fears that he was 'hurried' at the end of his prose, though he 'did most of it carefully'.

Now the 'troubles of acting are beginning': Robert himself has 'very little to do', and is 'very glad of it. But the rehe[a]rsals take a long time'. They are performing Paul Pry [farce by John Poole], which 'is too long and too difficult' for them. His house are in the middle of an exciting [cricket] match with Van's [A. G. Watson's], and should win. Everyone has been 'very much depressed by the death of the boy in that house'.

The school is 'still doing badly at Cricket'. Sees 'the O'Garman is dead'. Adds a postscript to say that his mother gave him 'quite enough money'.