Item 3 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Trevelyan

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Trinity Cambridge [on college notepaper]:- Hears Charlie is going to London next Saturday; he is well at the moment, as he has been all term; he 'gave [them] a jaw on Temperance and Local Option last Friday at [their] private Liberal club', which Robert thought very good. Sir George's speech at Rothbury 'seems to have been very successful': hopes it will 'do the Cheviot herdsman good'. He and Charlie are going to 'take a lesson in bicycling' this afternoon, though 'whether [they] shall stick to it is another thing'.

Thinks Lendrum [W. T. Lendrum, later Vesey?] a 'very good coach indeed': is doing some composition with him, and thinks he is 'at last improving in that'; did some 'very bad composition' in the examination. Robert's bills left over from last year came to only 2 pounds 7 shillings. Welldon was in Cambridge at the beginning of the week; Robert saw him at breakfast at Charlie's; he is 'complaining of the growth of theosophy at Harrow', since there are 'three theosophists among the scholars'. Has had a letter from Georgie, who is 'rather indignant at Welldon's precautions against the influenza' [TRER/14/5]. Has heard some 'very startling news about Sir John S' which he supposes must be true. Is going to get a 'writing table of some sort'. Hopes his mother is well.

TRER/14/5 - Letter, 29 Jan [1892], from George Macaulay Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan, in which he complains (in capital letters) about the changes initiated because of Welldon's 'terrible funk of the influenza, as mentioned by Robert in the current letter.

Pencil note at top of letter dating it to [18]92.