Stuk 56 - Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - High winds have brought down a 'fine beech' tree at the corner of the China Pond, 'sparing the old yews' but ruining a laburnum and a mespilus [medlar] 'that recalled Italy'. Has recently discovered that the balustrade in the central hall at Wallington, always said to have been designed by Ruskin, almost exactly resembles one described and drawn in "The Stones of Venice", at the Cathedral in Murano. Has finished reading Tacitus 'with great regret'; last thing he read was the "De Oratoribus", which was very interesting though he cannot believe it to be by Tacitus. Sends love to Elizabeth, and hopes the stain has come out of her silk dress.