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- 4 Jan 1916 (Creation)
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Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Caroline received a most interesting letter from Bessy this morning; he has ordered Drummond [his banker] to pay thirty five pounds into Robert's account for Julian's 'little affair' [an operation on an umbilical hernia]; 'quod optime eveniat!' [Latin: may this turn out well]. Sends George's account of their 'little ceremony of Boxing Day'; asks for it back. Has been reading Herodotus, 'with a play of Plautus between each book'; has reached the last book and wishes there were nine more; Plautus grows on him more with each reading, as also happened to Macaulay when he read and re-read him in India. Is now going to read Thucydides, again with a Plautus play between each book. Sir John Simon stayed last week, and mentioned that he had shown Thucydides 2.71-74 to Asquith as 'a curious parable to the story of Belgium'. Was glad to find the narrative easy to read.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto (1910-1988), painter and printmaker (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Caroline (c. 1847-1928), wife of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Subject)
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Herodotus (c 484 BC–c 425 BC) historian (Subject)
- Maccius Plautus, Titus (c. 254 – 184 BC) Roman playwright (Subject)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet (Subject)
- Thucydides (c 460-c 400 BCE) Greek historian (Subject)
- Simon, John Allsebrook (1873-1954), 1st Viscount Simon, politician and lawyer (Subject)
- Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister (Subject)