A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper

Malloch, Simon

Abstract

In March 1959 Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, took his wife Xandra, the daughter of Field Marshal Haig, to convalesce in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. From there he wrote a long letter to the Yale historian Wallace Notestein: about their move to Scotland at the end of the previous year (couched in the metaphor of Abraham’s travels), Xandra’s illness, his holiday reading (Madame de Sevigné and ‘Bertie’ Russell), his latest book, A. L. Rowse (at length), and the fate of Bernard Berenson’s Florentine villa, I Tatti, after his death. The letter was first published in 2014.1

Citation

Malloch, S. (2022). A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Notes and Queries, 69(3), 263-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac057

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 4, 2022
• Online Publication Date: May 17, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Deposit Date: May 4, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 18, 2024
• Journal: Notes and Queries
• Print ISSN: 0029-3970
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-6941
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 263-264
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac057
• Keywords: Library and Information Sciences; Literature and Literary Theory; Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/7953125
• Publisher URL: https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/69/3/263/6587158?redirectedFrom=fulltext
• Additional Information: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Notes and Queries following peer review. The version of record S J V Malloch, A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper, Notes and Queries, 2022;, gjac057 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac057