Item 79 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Caroline Trevelyan

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The new masters are Mr Rice Jones, replacing Mr Viner, and Mr Champney, replacing Mr Evans. There are five new boys: Henry, Crocker, Wilder, Smith, and Percival. It is 'awfully hot today'. He got Lorna Doone just in time to pack it into his portmanteau. He and S[ackville?] West do all their classics with Mr Arnold; Robert also studies French and Old Testament Divinity with Arnold, History and Geography with Mr Rice Jones, and English and Euclid with Mr Champney. Mr Rice Jones says that he once stayed at Cambo, and knows Mr Gow [the Trevelyan's land agent at Cambo?] and several others. Sends love to his father and to Charlie, 'if he has not gone to the Park [home of their grandfather Robert Needham Philips] yet'. Adds a footnote with an asterisk saying that he is not sure how to spell Rice and Gow, marking these names in the text above also with an asterisk. Finishes by saying they are playing cricket, and Georgie is 'quite well'.