Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: George Otto Trevelyan

 

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1800-1849
1850-1899
I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to ...George Otto Trevelyan JuvenalPrint: Book
1850-1899Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips.George Otto Trevelyan Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own ...George Otto Trevelyan Conyers MiddletonThe life and letters of Marcus Tullius CiceroPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips...George Otto Trevelyan John PooleLittle Pedlington and the PedlingtoniansPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Cha...George Otto Trevelyan Elizabeth Von ArnimChristopher and ColumbusPrint: Book
1900-1945MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially ...George Otto Trevelyan Cicero The treatises of M.T. CiceroPrint: Book
1900-1945Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generat...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe Laurringtons; or, superior peoplePrint: Book
1900-1945"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this am...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe ward of Thorpe-CombePrint: Book
1900-1945"Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn'...George Otto Trevelyan Henry GunningReminiscences of the university, town and county of Cambridem from the year 1780Print: Book
1900-1945Many marginal notes include: "The marginal notes and lines are from Macaulay's Deux Ponts edition. NB I did not read t...George Otto Trevelyan Aulus GelliusNoctes atticaePrint: Book
1900-1945"The marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in p...George Otto Trevelyan Caius Velleius PaterculusWorksPrint: Book
1900-1945"July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan....George Otto Trevelyan Caius Suetonius TranquillusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October...George Otto Trevelyan Plato Dialogues
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." George Otto Trevelyan Homer IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his siste...George Otto Trevelyan Thucydides De bello PelloponesiacoPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finis...George Otto Trevelyan Herodotus WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: ...George Otto Trevelyan Martin MadanA new and literal translation of Juvenal and PerseusPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905;...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur HolmesPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The OlynthiacsPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to re...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes in MidiamPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from ...George Otto Trevelyan Xenophon Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton L. BrownsonPrint: Book
1850-1899MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Wey...George Otto Trevelyan Horace Works; ed by MacleanePrint: Book
1900-1945MS note on final flyleaf: "This book gets very poor towards the end. The omissions in the Shield of Achilles, - both i...George Otto Trevelyan John WalkerClavis HomericaPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] tal...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesPortraits of placesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, co...George Otto Trevelyan Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.George Otto Trevelyan Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marginalia throughout book, including the thoughts of Sir George Otto Trevelyan on visiting the grave who...George Otto Trevelyan Mark TwainA tramp abroadPrint: Book
1900-1945MS note at the end of "The man of destiny": "Dec 5 1926 Read aloud to C, [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] - as I once di...George Otto Trevelyan George Bernard ShawPlays: pleasant and unpleasantPrint: Book
Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the...George Otto Trevelyan Sir Robert Thomas WilsonPrivate diary of travels, personal services, and public events ...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh...George Otto Trevelyan Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constan...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThe old wives' talePrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, Georg...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThese twainPrint: Book
1850-1899Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Gl...George Otto Trevelyan Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without ...George Otto Trevelyan Julius StindeThe Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berlin lifePrint: Book
1900-1945Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was bas...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe better sortPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of th...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe reverberatorPrint: Book
1900-1945Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his ...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warningPrint: Book
1900-1945A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevely...George Otto Trevelyan Anthony HopeThe Dolly dialoguesPrint: Book
1850-1899This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome....George Otto Trevelyan Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe poetical works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrint: Book
1900-1945This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe ambassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-se...George Otto Trevelyan Mary Boykin ChesnutA diary from DixiePrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, ...George Otto Trevelyan Felix BouvierBonaparte en ItaliePrint: Book
1900-1945MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the...George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop MotleyHistory of the United NetherlandsPrint: Book
1850-1899MS annotations incl. v.1 p.534: "A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is on the wrong side o...George Otto Trevelyan James GrantBritish battles on land and seaPrint: Book
MS notes throughout, mainly taken for Sir George's own research into Charles James Fox. One reads (v.2.p.376): "I am g...George Otto Trevelyan Charles James FoxMemorials and correspondence of Charles James FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "S...George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop MotleyThe rise of the Dutch republic: a historyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read betwee...George Otto Trevelyan Marcus Tullius CiceroM. Tullii Ciceronis OperaPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "Ma...George Otto Trevelyan Julius CaesarOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and mar...George Otto Trevelyan Cornelius TacitusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, fro...George Otto Trevelyan Livy Historiorum libriPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I ...George Otto Trevelyan Sallust Opera omniaPrint: Book

 

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