Item 6 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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Trinity, Cambridge [on Wallington headed notepaper, address crossed through]: - Charlie 'seems to be getting along quite well'; is glad that he is 'writing more cheerfully'. Wright is going with Charlie to Welcombe, and much looking forward to it; Robert too is looking forward to his visit there. Saw Lascelles when he visited for the day yesterday; he has received, for the Vaughan Library [at Harrow], a 'Contio' containing Sir George Trevelyan's 'poem on the invasions of England', or perhaps on the Crimea as Robert cannot remember which; this is 'corrected... by someone writing in a large feminine hand'. Thinks he remembers his father saying that 'Uncle Tom [Macaulay] corrected several lines in one of his prize poems'; alternatively, since the handwriting is described by Lascelles as 'feminine', it is more likely to be Robert's grandmother's. Possible that it is Vaughan's, but has heard he wrote in a 'small Rugby hand'. They could find out by seeing the book, which 'someone picked up on a bookstall'.

There have been 'great rows' in the Trinity debating society, as there is a 'hot contest between two candidates for the Presidency'. Asks if she is going to Oxford next Saturday to see the [Greek] play. Sees the 'government is having a pretty bad time of it'.