Item 224 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Trevelyan

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The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Thanks his father for the Times [Literary] Supplement, and for offering to let Robert have it when he has finished with it. Robert and Bessie gave it up about two years ago, not because they thought it 'less good', but 'partly as an economy, and because the literary articles of the Nation were then fairly good'; since then the 'literary side of the Nation has deteriorated a great deal', while the 'Times Supplement seems to be keeping up its standard very well', so they will be grateful to have it. Would be happy to send it on to another address when they have finished. The issue his father has sent has 'some very interesting articles'; thought the 'account of Webster [by H. H. Child] especially good'.

Julian seems to have had a 'very enjoyable time' at Wallington, and to have appreciated his walks with Robert's father and Aunt Annie, and his games with Robert's mother; he seems to have been 'much impressed' by the church at Stratford, and the 'tombs of the Shakespeare family'. Miss Barthorpe is away for the week, so Bessie and Robert are giving him lessons and taking him for walks; they think he has 'got on quite well lately in reading and writing'.

The article in the TLS which Robert refers to is 'John Webster', Times Literary Supplement issue 776, 30 Nov 1916, p.571, a review of Rupert Brooke's John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, Sidgwick & Jackson (1916).