File 13 - Proofs and reviews of R. C. Trevelyan's translation "The Idylls of Theocritus" and his "From the Shiffolds"

Paper: Proofs (4 copies plus one page); 9 press clippings; two printed advertisements.

Four copies of page proofs, with green date stamps of: 3rd July (not complete); 19-23 July (complete); 19 July (up unto Epigram XII); 3 July (also has Cambridge University Press label on front as 'First Proof... 4.7.46', and red date stamp of ?10 July).

Press cuttings sent by CUP and Durrant's Press Cuttings Agency from: the Spectator (R. J. Getty); the "Manchester Guardian" (Hugh l'A Fausset reviewing 'Recent Verse', also including works by Hall Summers, Alex Comfort, John Heath-Stubbs, Edith Sitwell and Peter Quennell); "Notes and Queries"; the "New Statesman and Nation" (by G. W. Stonier, also reviewing works by Karl Shapiro, Alex Comfort, Kathleen Raine, John Heath-Stubbs, and Gilbert Murray's translation of Sophocles's "Trachiniae", "The Wife of Heracles); the "Oxford Mail" (S. P. B. Mais); the "Poetry Review" (William Kean Seymour). Of these, the "New Statesman" and "Poetry Review" review Trevelyan's "From the Shiffolds" as well as his translation of Theocritus; cuttings from the "Times" (also reviewing works by George Villiers, Wyne Griffith, and W. J. Strachan) and "Tribune" are reviews of "From the Shiffolds" alone.

Also included: two printed adverts for Trevelyan's translation of Sophocles' "Antigone", published by Liverpool University Press, with "Theocritus incomplete" written on the back of one of them and used as a divider for the proofs; one page galley proof of Trevelyan's "Rimeless Numbers", with corrections in pen and one section with pasted over correction, dated '1932'.