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The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Hopes Julian [currently suffering from whooping cough] is 'now beginning to cough less'; two nights ago he had his worst coughing fit yet, 'but that did not last'; Robert will still be glad when he has quite recovered. Had an interesting time in Edinburgh: the opera [The Bride of Dionysus, with libretto by Robert and music by Donald Tovey] 'sounded very well, and people seemed to like it'. Mrs Tovey seemed well, and 'their adopted child is evidently a godsend. It is quite a fine child, and [Grettie Tovey] seems quite sensible with it'.
Is going to Cambridge on Saturday to see the production of Aeschylus [The Oresteia, in J. T. Sheppard's Greek production]. Expects he will go abroad with [Goldsworthy Lowes] Dickinson on 15 March, ending up in Florence, and returning in early May. Bessie will soon write about her plans. Is just finishing the 'story of Abraham [from the Bible, see 46/264] with Julian'; they also read some history and poetry together. Julian is 'going to read Treasure Island to himself now'.
Sends love to his father and to Booa [Mary Prestwich].
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- Trevelyan, Caroline (c. 1847-1928), wife of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto (1910-1988), painter and printmaker (Subject)
- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (1875-1940), knight, music scholar and composer (Subject)
- Cameron, Margaret Kerr (1878-1933?) first wife of Donald Tovey (Subject)
- Tovey, John Wellcome (1919-1965), adopted son of Donald Tovey (Subject)
- Aeschylus (c 525 BC- c 456 BC) tragedian (Subject)
- Sheppard, Sir John Tresidder (1881-1968) Knight, Provost of King's College Cambridge (Subject)
- Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (1862-1932), humanist, historian, and philosopher (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894), writer (Subject)
- Prestwich, Mary Barrow (c 1843-1924) housekeeper to Sir George and Lady Trevelyan, known as Booa (Subject)