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TRER/12/315
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Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 25 Feb 1920 (Creation)
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Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Glad to hear [see 46/255] about Robert's visit from Aunt Annie [Philips], and that he has read [Lucian's] "Alexander [Pseudomantis]" and "De Mercede conductis [On Salaried Posts in Great Houses: see 12/314]"; the latter seems to throw more light on the Roman banquet than Petronius, Horace, or Juvenal. Encloses a review which must be read carefully 'to bring out the full asininity of the author who is the subject of it [whose] book passed in folly and conceit anything conceivable'. Asks for the review to be returned, along with Rosebery's letter; does not think any man, even Edward Grey, has been 'more cruelly tried and bereaved'.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838–1928), 2nd Baronet, politician and author (Subject)
- Philips, Anna Maria (1857-1946), philanthropist, daughter of Robert Needham Philips (Subject)
- Lucian (c 125-c 180) satirist and rhetorician (Subject)
- Petronius Arbiter, Gaius (c. 27-66), courtier and author (Subject)
- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (c 65-8 BC), poet, known as Horace (Subject)
- Iunius Iuvenalis, Decimus (c 60-c 135) poet, known as Juvenal (Subject)
- Primrose, Archibald Philip (1847–1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery and 1st Earl of Midlothian, Prime Minister and author (Subject)
- Grey, Edward (1862-1933), 1st Viscount Grey of Falloden, politician, countryman, and author (Subject)