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- 23 Feb 1920 (Creation)
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The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking. - Here they are 'enjoying the most beautiful weather'. Bessie has gone to London to stay with Molly for a night, do shopping and see friends. They had a 'very pleasant visit' from Aunt Annie, who he thinks will now be with his parents; they thought her 'very well and cheerful, and not too tired by her house-moving'.
Has taken his father's advice [in 12/314] and read [Lucian's On Salaried Posts in Great Houses/The Dependent Scholar, which he had forgotten; it is 'admirable', as is The Life of Alexander [the False Prophet]. Notes 'how modern the point of view is; it might almost be Anatole France'.
Was at Haslemere during the [Diamond] Jubilee of 1897, so his bonfire was 'the one on Blackdowne'; it was a good one, but 'not forty feet high' [like the one at Wallington, see 12/314]. Quotes Aeschylus' Agamemnon 270, 280-281 on kindling beacons in Greek; hopes to publish his translation of the Agamemnon, but [Gilbert] Murray is just now bringing out his translation with the same publisher [Allen & Unwin], so Robert must 'wait another season'.
Sends love to his mother, Aunt Annie, and Booa [Mary Prestwich].
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Mary Katharine (1881-1966), political hostess and voluntary worker, wife of Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bt (Subject)
- Philips, Anna Maria (1857-1946) philanthropist, daughter of Robert Needham Philips (Subject)
- Lucian (c 125-c 180) satirist and rhetorician (Subject)
- France, Anatole (1844–1924) French poet, journalist, and novelist (Subject)
- Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Aeschylus (c 525 BC- c 456 BC) tragedian (Subject)
- Murray, George Gilbert Aimé (1866-1957), classical scholar and internationalist (Subject)
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Caroline (c. 1847-1928), wife of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Subject)
- Prestwich, Mary Barrow (c 1843-1924) housekeeper to Sir George and Lady Trevelyan, known as Booa (Subject)