Item 32 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan

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TRER/15/32

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Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan

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  • 18 Feb 1924 (Creation)

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A long list of birthday wishes, from the everyday; 'May you kick three goals each half-time', to the extravagant: 'M your ships all come to port, as soon as this dock--strike is over, laden with cargoes of sago and semolina and tapioca, but also of sausages and suet-puddings..'. Workmen have put down 'a lot of stones on water-lane', but the clay-bank still keeps coming down. Is not going abroad for three weeks; will write to Julian from Greece, and perhaps will send a postcard from Rome in Latin 'in the style of Cicero' which he will by then be able to read 'as easily as you can read double-Dutch'. Is just about to 'play a game of [sketch of a prawn-like creature: cf a reference to a card game called prawn-eyes in 15/27] with Elizabeth.

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