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The Mill House, Westcott, Dorking :- The weather has deteriorated recently and it is 'alternatively rainy and sultry'. Saw George briefly in London yesterday; he seemed 'very well and cheerful', except that he and Janet are 'distressed' about the health of her uncle [William Thomas Arnold], which Robert's father has 'doubtless' heard of. George was 'beginning the last chapter of his history [England Under the Stuarts].
Bessie is well; her friend Miss [Laetitia] Ede is visiting for a few days, 'having just passed her final medical examination'. They have 'signed the agreement with the V[aughan] Williamses [for the lease of land on which to build a house]' but there are still delays, since both their and the Vaughan Williamses' architects think they should 'try to get a cheaper tender from other builders'; this is 'very tiresome', but at least it does not seem to be the Vaughan Williamses' fault this time, and Robert and Elizabeth will be sure they are getting their 'full money's worth'. Does not expect the delays will be longer than a few weeks, so the roof should still be on before Christmas and they should be able to move in next spring.
Saw Murray's translation of Hippolytus acted in London yesterday [at the Lyric Theatre, produced by Harley Granville-Barker], but thought it so poor a performance that he 'could not stay till the end. No one could act well, or even make themselves heard properly, though there was plenty of ranting, and the beautiful choruses were drowned out in an intolerably affected and ineffective manner'. The play is 'very fine... and well suited for the modern style, and the translation has many unusual merits': it is a 'great pity that these abortive efforts should be made, as it only makes the intelligent public more and more sceptical as to the possibility of acting poetical drama finely, and yet it is perfectly possible, if only they would go about it in the right way'. At least they should not use 'quite incompetent actors'. Yet some papers have said it was 'very successful'.
They both send love to Robert's father and mother; Bessie will write soon.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Janet Penrose (1879-1956), author (Subject)
- Arnold, William Thomas (1852-1904) writer and journalist (Subject)
- Hutchison, Laetitia Norah (1877-1964) doctor, wife of Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet (Subject)
- Williams, Laura Susanna Vaughan (1840-1922) wife of Sir Roland Vaughan Williams (Subject)
- Williams, Sir Roland Lomax Bowdler Vaughan (1838-1916) judge (Subject)
- Williams, Roland Edmund Lomax (1866–1949) lawyer (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Murray, George Gilbert Aimé (1866-1957), classical scholar and internationalist (Subject)
- Euripides (c. 480 BC–c. 406 BC), Greek tragedian (Subject)
- Barker, Harley Granville Granville- (1877-1946) theatre director and playwright (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Caroline (c. 1847-1928), wife of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Subject)