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Article: Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson.(Brief article)(Book review)

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June 22, 2007
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Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson. Richard Davenport-Hines, editor. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. xliii + 326 pages. ISBN 0-297-85084-9. This correspondence began in 1947, after the young Trevor-Roper, then a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church met the aged art critic, Bernard Berenson and continued to Berenson's death in 1959. The letters are all those of Trevor-Roper and are either to Berenson or his companion, Nicky Mariano. Some short letters are not included and a few potentially libellous passages as well as 'over-elaborate valedictory ...

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