Stuk 211 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan

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Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Has finished reading all of Samuel Butler's notebooks; completely agrees with what Robert says about him, and agrees with him about selecting "Borrowing in Music" and his thoughts on Handel. Quotes from an approving note he once made on Butler's essay on "Borrowing...". Thinks Butler's notes on writing are 'the best treatise' he knows, and yet Butler's own books were so often 'such mare's nests'; he and his 'worshippers' made too much of "Erewhon". Caroline agrees with Robert about [Joseph Conrad's?] "Chance", so he will try it. Have not yet seen what happened in the House of Commons last night; was never more 'indignant and disgusted about any public event than the encouragement of mutiny by the Conservative party' [re the Curragh incident].