Pièce 22 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan

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Is sending two extracts from the "Manchester Guardian"; does not entirely understand the one about atoms, but Julian may; if atoms are 'a kind of solar system... perhaps our solar system may be an atom in something bigger, and so on'. Has 'frozen fairly hard' all today, and the birds have been eating the food put out; he and Elizabeth have been alone this weekend, but next Sunday [Gordon] Luce, Miss [Ethel?] Luce and Mr [Arthur?] Waley are coming next Sunday. Wonders how Julian will like Latin; at least he will know 'amo amas amat etc' and [Catullus's] 'Da mi basia centum'; wonders whether he will be taught Robert's way of pronunciation, or 'the old English' way Robert was taught at school; it does not matter much, but Robert's is nearer the Roman way. Elizabeth has sent the Hurtenham magazine to Mr [Gordon] Bottomley; now she is going to read to him. Sends love to the goats and pigs, though supposes the ones Julian was interested in 'are now no more'.