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- 1901 (Creation)
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2 folded sheets.
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Robert Calverley Trevelyan was born on 28 June 1872, the son of Sir George Trevelyan and his wife Caroline. After attending Harrow, Trevelyan was admitted to Trinity College on 15 June 1891. He graduated from Cambridge in 1894 with a BA and LLB, having take examinations in Classics Part I and Law Part II. Although his father wanted him to become a barrister, Trevelyan pursued a career as a poet. He published numerous works during his lifetime, many of them translations from ancient authors.
Trevelyan married the Dutch violinist Elizabeth des Amorie van der Hoeven. The artist Julian Trevelyan was their son.
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The book in which these letters were contained was bequeathed to Trinity on Robert Trevelyan's death in Mar. 1951.
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These letters were found in an edition of Lucan once belonging to Thomas Babington Macaulay, and containing annotations by him. Sir George Trevelyan read through Macaulay's annotations in his retirement and published Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay](https://lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/cb3e6e1b-d386-492f-b8d2-9e729a4ba531) in 1907; in these letters his son Robert discusses the text and some of Macaulay's textual criticism.
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These letters were found in an edition of Lucan's Pharsalia held in Trinity College Library under the shelfmark Z.O.48.