Item 293 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Trevelyan

The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Bessie went to see Julian [at school] last week and 'found him quite happy, and getting on well with his work'. They will send him to Bedales next January; they visited it last week, received a 'quite satisfactory impression on the whole', and 'think it will suit Julian better than one of the bigger public schools'. Julian is 'now learning Latin, and seems to like it. Everywhere now they begin to teach Latin and Greek at a later age than they used to in my time or yours'. They are 'much looking forward' to seeing Robert's parents in September.

The weather is 'cold and rainy', and they 'have a fire all day in the drawing room'. A 'petrol-driven tractor is ploughing up the field below [the] house. It makes a great noise, but gets the whole field done in two days or so'. Glad that Charles 'made such a great recovery. He seemed in fine training at the Lake Hunt'. There was an 'interesting article in yesterday's Manchester Guardian by Bose, the Calcutta professor, on the way the sap rises in trees'. Saw Bose's 'laboratories and experiments years ago in Calcutta, and was a good deal impressed by them'. Sends love to his mother.