Item 235 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan

Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Glad Julian is all right; sure Elizabeth must be relieved to have settled the 'governess business', and hopes she will be as lucky as Charles and Mollie are in Miss Clarke. Very interesting about Jan [Hubrecht]; thinks he has 'great aptitudes for his new career [in the Dutch diplomatic service]' and has 'learned to work' through his study of astronomy. George is spending thirty six hours with them, and has given them an idea of his 'complicated business' [heading a Red Cross ambulance brigade in Italy]; Janet has come from Robins Ghyll to be with him; his long and 'not unanxious' absences are hard on her, but he is 'doing a man's work'; he does not think she would 'have it otherwise'. Janet was herself meant to have spent September at Wallington, but her colleague [on the Committee for Relief in Belgium] Mrs Erskine Childers has to go away so she can only spend a few days, and will leave the children here.