Pièce 195 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan

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Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Likes Robert's account of the hunt [see 46/202]; comments on 'heredity', and there being a Cadbury on the hunt [Laurence John Cadbury?]; compares it to the two 'members of the eleven at Harrow' writing home that there was a young Trevelyan who 'played up'. Interested to hear about Aunt Annie [Philips] who 'does too much', like 'dear Booa' [Mary Prestwich] who has been very unwell; they have got a nurse for her. Has been reading [Frances] Lady Shelley's diary, published by John Murray, which has the 'pleasantest' and he expects truest picture of Wellington at the 'height of his career'. They have been reading the life of Ruskin by [Edward Tyas] Cook; not sure why it has not been more highly praised, unless it is that Ruskin's 'inordinate mass of writing, extraordinary want of self-control, and his ravings about myths and etymologies' tire ordinary readers more than they do Sir George.