Item 1 - Notebook with translation of Virgil's" "Eclogues" and "Georgics"

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TRER/32/1

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Notebook with translation of Virgil's" "Eclogues" and "Georgics"

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  • c 1944 (Creation)

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One blue-grey hardcover notebook with red spine. 88 ff plus two endpapers; one loose sheet of paper.

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Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Autobiographical piece by Trevelyan about his childhood home, Wallington, quoting Ruskin and describing the library in particular, including mention of Macaulay's books with his handwritten annotations on the classical authors. Translations of Virgil's first and second "Eclogue", first and second "Georgic" (with another version of one passage on a loose sheet of paper), ninth "Eclogue" and third "Georgic". Section written from the opposite end of the book in is a draft speech by Trevelyan to introduce Arthur Waley at a gathering to 'give... sympathy and what help we feel we can to the people of modern China in the terrible troubles [they are currently suffering]".

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