BRACERS Record Detail for 52860
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BR leaves on the 19th "and have masses of both work and business to get through". "I remember your coming to see us in Downing [College] during the Boer War...."
It is not known where BR was staying in Ffestiniog. His home had been sold. He was possibly at the Pengwern Arms.
BR TO ELIZABETH TREVELYAN, 9 JUNE 1950
BRACERS 52860. ALS(X). Trinity College Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Ffestiniog, N. Wales.
9.6.50
My dear Elizabeth
I hear your Golden Wedding was on Monday. I wish I had written in time to reach you and Bob on the day. I remember your coming to see us in Downing during the Boer War, which seems a very long time ago. You and Bob are almost the only ones of my old friends who still survive and are still my friends — others, if they still live, have become strangers. I wish I could have come to see you before going to Australia, but it was quite impossible. I go on the 19th and have masses of both work and business to get through. I shall not have anybody with me, and the time there will be laborious, but it will be nice to get home. I feel like the man who beat his head repeatedly against the wall, because it was such a pleasure to stop.
My very warmest and most affectionate good wishes to you both.
Yours affectionately
B.R.
