File 731 - Two letters from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Otto Trevelyan

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Reference code

Add. MS a/731

Title

Two letters from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Otto Trevelyan

Date(s)

  • 1901 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

2 folded sheets.

Context area

Name of creator

(1872-1951)

Biographical history

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, havingread more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

The book in which these letters were contained was bequeathed to Trinity on Robert Trevelyan's death in Mar. 1951.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

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](read more

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Related units of description

These letters were found in an edition of Lucan's Pharsalia held in Trinity College Library under the shelfmark Z.O.48.

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