Item 15 - Letter from George Macaulay Trevelyan to R.C. Trevelyan

Hotel Carron, Fionnen [Fionnay], Val de Bagnes. - Is relieved to answer Bob's letter after struggling with Searle's letter. Has been here alone for a week after a week of 'stirring adventure and sightseeing with Charlie Buxton' in Switzerland and Italy; Buxton has now left and George has a week by himself to 'digest the whole of last year, which has been a year of great "mercies"' as they would have said in the 17th century, or '"developement [sic]" as we say in the 19th'. Is 'living on Shelley, Plato, and the Hebrew prophets'; neither a Hellenist like Bob nor a Christian like Buxton can 'feel the Old Testament'; has got the 'idealization of mountain walking and climbing' out of Plato's "Republic". Hopes to see some of Bob's poems when they next meet; wonders how the 'great Greek legend' is getting on.