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TRER/12/355
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Letter from Sir George Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 20 July 1923 (Creation)
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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - He and Caroline are both 'fairly well, and heartedly contented'. Glad that Robert and Elizabeth are 'deep in Chaucer'; read him aloud to Caroline over two years in which they 'cared for no other poetry'. Is currently reading the four last books of Thucydides; intends then to alternate Terence with [Sophocles's] three Theban plays and four plays by Aristophanes; then to read two Plato dialogues and the four first books of Herodotus: that 'is far enough to look forward to, and (most probably) too far'.
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- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Caroline (c. 1847-1928), wife of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1343-1400), poet and administrator (Subject)
- Thucydides (c 460-c 400 BCE) Greek historian (Subject)
- Terentius Afer, Marcus (c 190 BC - c 159 BC) comic playwright, known as Terence (Subject)
- Sophocles (c 496-c 406 BC) dramatist (Subject)
- Aristophanes (c 446 BC-c 386 BC), Greek comic playwright (Subject)
- Plato (c 428-347 BC), Greek philosopher (Subject)
- Herodotus (c 484 BC–c 425 BC) historian (Subject)