Item 47 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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Hotel Bristol, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Naples:- Has spent a day in Naples and is now going to Capri for a while; [Corpo di] Cava ‘seems a little risky at present, as the weather is exceptionally backward this year’, but he will probably go on there if it becomes hotter. She can send letters to the Hotel Bristol for the time being, as he is unsure exactly where he will be staying. Has not seen Pompeii, or been up Vesuvius, having ‘limited… sight-seeing to the Museum’, where he spent most of today. Will ‘keep Pompeii as a prospective reward for labour’. Calls the Museum ‘very wonderful, especially the frescoes’; did not have time to look at the bronzes properly, and did not see the medieval pictures at all.

Is well, though tired after ‘so much travelling’; will write a better, longer letter when he reaches Capri, but after a day seeing Naples will ‘confine [himself] to saying that everything is as it should be’ and she need not be anxious about him. As further reassurance, if he goes ‘up into the hills’ he will ‘buy a strong sufficient basic knife, armed with which [he] may safely defy any brigand or band of brigands [he] may chance to meet’. Asks if C[harles] is ‘going to have a fight soon at Lambeth’. Hopes his father is well, and that G[eorge] is ‘fit for his exam’.