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[On headed notepaper for Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland]: - Thanks his father for his letter. Apologises for being 'rather slow in writing this week'; 'will make a point of writing on Sunday' another time. His form are reading 'the 5th book of the Aeniad [sic] and the Seven against Thebes; later they will also read some Cicero, but he does not yet know what; they will go 'straight on in the Thucidides' [sic].
Does not know where he will be placed in his form this week, but he has 'worked [his] best'. Did not do very well at the beginning, 'through not knowing his [teacher's] ways', but has been 'getting on better lately. Has 'had some verses sent up' and is 'working hard at them'. Thinks Charlie is 'getting on very well in Hallam's form'.
The torpid matches will be soon; his house are 'very good this year and... even have a chance of being cock-house'. He and Charlie are both 'quite well now'. Hopes his mother is well. Is 'so glad to hear that Meta [his cousin] is better. The weather is 'very cold here and it has been freezing a great deal'. Last Sunday, some boys 'made a row in the grove, and chased the chickens', so Mr Bowen has closed the grove for now; Robert was not involved. This Saturday there will be a 'whole holiday'. Hopes Spider is well.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Sir Charles Philips (1870-1958), 3rd Baronet, politician (Subject)
- Vergilius Maro, Publius (70 BC-19 BC), poet, known as Vergil or Virgil (Subject)
- Aeschylus (c 525 BC- c 456 BC) tragedian (Subject)
- Tullius Cicero, Marcus (106 BC - 43 BC) statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher (Subject)
- Thucydides (c 460-c 400 BCE) Greek historian (Subject)
- Hallam, George Hanley (1846-1932) schoolmaster and classical scholar (Subject)
- Smith, Margaret Alice (1862-1937) wife of Reginald Abel Smith, known as Meta (Subject)
- Bowen, Edward Ernest (1836-1901), schoolmaster (Subject)