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I can hardly claim Trevelyan as
a friend also of my own, but Baldwin
I certainly can. With Trevelyan
however, I had an acquaintance
which I recall with pride. I
spent the winter of 1899-1900 at
the Passmore Edwards Settlement
in London, and was present one
evening at a feast of Fellows,
or some such event, at Trinity
College, Cambridge when I had
as a neighbour on the one side
Lord Acton, and on the other, George
Trevelyan. I was, I think to
Dr Wm Cunningham, that
I owed that particular honour.
Dr Cunningham had given a
course of lectures, which I attended
at Harvard the year before, and
I was paying him a visit at
Trinity at the time, if I recollect
aright. I also knew the Humphry
Wards very well, so have an
additional link with both
Trevelyan and his wife.

I recall so vividly the day
Violet Markham took me to
call on you. I see us all standing
by a table - with its polished surface
and books upon it, which it
seems to me was not far from
a large window with long
hangings - the table was [by] a
wall opposite the part of the
room from which we entered,