Item 4 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan

c/o Mrs Wilson, Myers Farm, Silverdale. near Carnforth. - Is staying quite near to the station, and is sometimes woken by the trains at night; thinks then that it would be a good thing if he and Julian had 'flying beds and could... change places for a few hours'; saw a train with sixty trucks the other day. Is about ten minutes walk from Mr and Mrs [Gordon and Emily] Bottomley's house, and visits in the morning and after supper, when he reads aloud, usually from Shakespeare. Mr Bottomley has a book of [William] Allingham's poems which they do not have; copies out "Four ducks on a pond". There are about thirty turkeys in the fields round the house, and the cock has such a red face that 'there are no paints in [Julian's] box with which you could paint it redder'. Julian's mother has sent his last poem, ending 'the silly brooding cow', which is 'quite a good one'; Mr Bottomley agrees. Sends love to Elizabeth and to Booa [Mary Prestwich], and asks him to tell her he is enjoying her parkin very much; so did Mrs Bottomley when she tried some.