Item 332 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Trevelyan

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The Shiffolds. - Hopes that by now his father's hand is getting better, though Aunt Annie writes it is still in a sling. The weather here is 'wonderful, fine, but not at all too hot'. Julian comes home tomorrow; he 'thinks he has done well in his school certificate examinations' but the results do not come out for some weeks.

Has been 'very busy with various literary work': the plan to act the Oresteia at Cambridge [at the Festival Theatre] in October 'seems to be progressing hopefully', and rehearsals begin next month so he will have to go to Cambridge 'to see they speak the verse properly'. This afternoon he was 'accosted on Leith Hill by a jolly looking man, with a wife and two daughters' who said he had been reading his book 'with great pleasure'; Robert said, as he has 'often had to do, that I thought he was mistaking me for George, which he was'. However, the man then recognised him as Robert and said they had met at Seatoller twenty two years ago when Robert was on honeymoon, which unfortunately, Robert did not remember. He introduced himself as [John Clarke] Stobart; he had worked under Charles at the Education Office and now was 'looking after the interests of Education at the B.B.C'.

Robert then went on to his 'disused sand-quarry', where he works in the afternoons and 'where even on this bank-holiday afternoon one is hardly at all disturbed by holiday people', though there 'must have been several hundreds round and on the [Leith Hill] Tower' when he passed it. Bessie sends love to Robert's parents and is 'very sorry' his father's hand is still in a sling; she 'hopes it is not too uncomfortable'.