Pièce 159 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to Elizabeth Trevelyan

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Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Describes the date as being that of 'a certain famous event, since which England has never prospered' [the execution of Charles I]. Glad to hear news of Julian, and that Elizabeth has Tolstoy's "The Cossacks"; he read it many years ago in English and thought it 'wonderfully romantic and charming'; has re-read it since more than once in French, but has read the three pieces ["Sevastopol Sketches"] which usually accompany it even more often. They are his own experience, the "raw material" for the battle scenes in "War and Peace", and 'the best accounts of war ever written'. The frosty weather suits him and Caroline well.