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TRER/12/224
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Card from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 10 Dec 1914 (Creation)
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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Not quite well enough to answer Robert's letter properly; envies him his first read of [Aristophanes's] "Lysistrata": 'whatever may be said about it, the plot has a meaning in it'. Is reading about the siege of Syracuse by Marcellus [in Livy]; taken as part of the Second Punic War, it has 'the same sort of interest as Admiral Studdy's victory [sic: Admiral Doveton Sturdee had just defeated a German squadron at the Falkland Islands]' or the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon; 'these events depend on their surroundings'.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838–1928), 2nd Baronet, politician and author (Subject)
- Aristophanes (c 446 BC-c 386 BC), Greek comic playwright (Subject)
- Livius, Titus (c 59 BC - 17 AD) historian, known as Livy (Subject)
- Sturdee, Sir Frederick Charles Doveton (1859-1925) 1st Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet (Subject)