TREVELYAN, R. C.

£150 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Aftermath. First edition, presentation copy to Aida Borchgrevink, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Ai, from R, with love, August 1952". Five hundred copies of the book were printed.Aida Borchgrevink (née Ada Starr) was described by John Furness as "an ebullient, romantic woman" who "sang Wagner at the top of her voice while she drove" (Furbank, p. 25). She was a close friend of E. M. Forster (she reputedly insisted on calling Forster "Rickie"), and it is through Forster that she is likely to have met Trevelyan.

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