Item 264 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan

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Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Very kind of Robert to send his [Samuel] Butler books; will be glad to look over the Festing Jones, about whom he has a special interest from Butler's account of him in "Alps and Sanctuaries". Started reading and 'laughed immoderately' about [John] Frost's "Eminent Christians" [in "Quis Desiderio...?], though regarding the turtles ["Ramblings in Cheapside"] he thought Butler's "Paradoxes" 'read better than in a half page of the Notes than in a complete Essay'; the last paragraph, however, is very funny. Expects to get enjoyment throughout the book. Sees that the first [Butler] dinner Robert attended was 'named' by Marcus Hartog; wonders whether he knew Butler. Old [George] Hallam wrote him a long letter from "Ortygia" [his house in Harrow] recently; since Hallam was an old Shrewsbury man Sir George wrote to him about 'the life of Butler πάππος [grandfather]'; would like to have a 'good talk with a Shrewsbury man about it', Hopes the weather will allow Julian to visit the pictures, and that his were 'well hung'.