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- 9 Jul 1921 (Creation)
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The Shiffolds, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking. - Here they are 'still suffering from the drought', and he expects his parents are too; it is though 'not oppressively hot'. [Goldsworthy Lowes] Dickinson is visiting for a few days. They are reading 'Tchehov's last book of stories in the evening, most of them rather gloomy, but vivid and well-written'. He and Bessie sometimes read plays together: they have read [Jonson's] Volpone, which Robert 'admire[s] greatly, though the end never satisfies [him]', and Timon of Athens, which seems to him 'all genuine Shakespeare, though some of it is careless. He cannot have taken much trouble about it, but it is full of fine things'.
Hopes that 'peace for Ireland is really coming this time. It seems not impossible'. Bessie is well, and 'looking forward to Julian's return [from school]'.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (1862-1932), humanist, historian, and philosopher (Subject)
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904) writer, playwright, and physician (Subject)
- Jonson, Benjamin (1572-1637), poet and playwright (Subject)
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), playwright and poet (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto (1910-1988), painter and printmaker (Subject)