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TRER/12/275
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Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 4 Aug 1917 (Creation)
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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Thanks Robert for having taken so much trouble; wanted to show George Russell that he had looked into his question [about whether Macaulay was first to use 'tact' for a moral quality, see 12/273] properly, and has sent him Robert's letter. Encloses a cutting showing where Macaulay used 'cabful'; cannot yet identify the other quotation. [Walter] Runciman, his wife, and Edward Grey drove over yesterday for the day. Grey is 'tranquil and not unhappy in his retirement'; has had great trials, including the 'violent deaths of such a wife, and such a brother', his ill health, failing eyesight, and the destruction by fire of the house he loved; he is now 'most eager about books'
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838–1928), 2nd Baronet, politician and author (Subject)
- Russell, George William Erskine (1853-1919) politician (Subject)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet (Subject)
- Runciman, Walter (1870-1949), 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, politician (Subject)
- Runciman, Hilda (1869-1956), politician, wife of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (Subject)
- Grey, Edward (1862-1933), 1st Viscount Grey of Falloden, politician, countryman, and author (Subject)
- Grey, Frances Dorothea (1865-1906) first wife of Sir Edward Grey, later Viscount Grey of Falloden (Subject)
- Grey, George (1866-1911) brother of Edward Grey, later Viscount Grey of Falloden (Subject)