Item 302 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Trevelyan

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National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W.1. - Is in London for the day, 'staying at the N.L.C.'. Saw Charles and his family yesterday, 'all seem very flourishing' except that Charles needed to wear a 'sandal on his left foot' since he had 'just had a cyst (or is it cist?) cut out of his sole, a minor, indeed minimus, operation'. They walked together to the House of Commons, where Charles went in to 'hear the budget-speech'; he will be 'right again quite soon, in plenty of time for the Lake Hunt at any rate'.

Bessie had a 'strenuous week playing in the Orchestra of the Dorking Music Festival'; thinks she greatly enjoyed it. Julian 'looks in very good health, and evidently has had a very happy term [at Bedales]'. He is continuing reading Latin with Robert, and they also read the Bible together: currently Samuel and Kings. 'That part of his education seems to be entirely left out the Bedales curriculum'. Does not doubt that 'too little scripture lessons is better than too much, and at least he is spared those terrible Sunday Bible repetitions. But it would be a pity for him not to read it at all, especia;;y as he enjoys it a great deal'. Last year they read 'the first part of Pilgrim's Progress.

Robert is doing a 'good deal of work, such as translating Theocritus, including 'The Fisherman', [Idyll*] XXI, which though it is said to be by Leonidas of Tarentum rather than Theocritus, seems to him 'a wonderful poem'.