Item 5 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

Trin[ity] Coll[ege] Cambridge: - Asks her to tell his father that 'everything is ready' on his side for him to 'come up and be put down [for the Inns of Court?]. Must go 'with both the two societies before 4 P.M.'. Most of his friends 'get some of their contemporaries to come with them', which he could do 'easily if required'; they need not be barristers, only members of the Inner Temple. If Mr [Robert?] Reid will go with him he would be 'only too proud'; if so, he needs his father to tell him which of them must 'procure the second society'. Could come any day; if his father is too busy, he could manage everything himself; there is 'no special hurry'. Is sorry his father is tired; hopes 'the elections and the divisions have revived him'. Hopes everything will go well on Monday. 'Muggins comes here next Friday as judge's Marshall'.

Does not think he ought to spend another night in London this term. Will 'propose something absolutely definite about [Robert?] Kitson next week'. Asks her to thank his father for 'his approval of the scheme', and to tell him that 'politics are running very high here'. Last night he 'actually had to listen to the reading of a formal curse against some Gladstonian MP', from Lancashire if he remembers correctly, against whom 'they had some special grudge'. Asks 'Could bigotry possibly go further?'.