Item 187 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Otto Trevelyan

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TRER/45/187

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Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Otto Trevelyan

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  • [May 1889?] (Creation)

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Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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[On headed notepaper for 8, Grosvenor Crescent]:- Thanks his father for his letter. Supposes that his mother sent him the Italian newspaper about [Giordano?] Bruno; intends to read it as he wants to learn more about Bruno, and will learn some Italian. Asks his father to thank her for it. The school will have a 'very good eleven' this year, and should win at Lords; [Charles] Pope, from his house, has got into the team, but [Lawrie] Oppenheim has gone to Margate to recover from hayfever and 'lost nearly all his chance'. He himself played for his house and 'by a great chance made 15, but the bowling was very bad'; the match was against Mr Marshall's new house so 'of course' Robert's house won.

Is 'still reading Greek plays in great numbers'. Forgot to say, though expects his father will have heard by now, that Charlie won the reading prize on Saturday; thinks 'he read far the best', and most people agree. Charlie read [The Battle of?] Naseby [by Macaulay]; remembers his father telling him that he was not allowed to read it when he was at Harrow. Charlie has 'a very good voice, and is not nervous'; Robert thinks 'he ought to speak very well when he grows up'.

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      With pencil note dating the letter to 1889.

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