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- 20 Sept 1921 (Creation)
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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Interested in the Basil Williams dinner [see 46/278], and views his departure [to take up a professorship at McGill University] 'with regret' and hopes he will benefit from it. Would not have believed it if anyone had told him a generation ago that 'Canada would be a very great country with a future like that of Australia...' He too loves the Plutus; read it at the age of sixteen during one summer holiday with Uncle Tom [Macaulay]: 'I construing, and he enjoying'; Macaulay chose it as his introduction to Aristophanes, as he then chose the Meidi [Against Meidias] of Demosthenes and Gorgias of Plato. Is now reading the last five books of Herodotus, interspersed with [Demonsthenes's] Olynthiacs and first three Philippics.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Plato (c 428-347 BC), Greek philosopher (Subject)
- Williams, Arthur Frederic Basil (1867-1950), historian (Subject)
- Aristophanes (c 446 BC-c 386 BC), Greek comic playwright (Subject)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet (Subject)
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC) Greek statesman and orator (Subject)
- Herodotus (c 484 BC–c 425 BC) historian (Subject)