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Article: The History Correspondent.(Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson)(Book review)
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- September 1, 2007
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Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson, edited by Richard Davenport-Hines; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, $59.95.
I MUST DECLARE a slight partiality. In 1996 I had a brief meeting with Lord Dacre, as Hugh Trevor-Roper had become. I'd come across correspondence between Trevor-Roper and Chester Wilmot about the July 20 plot to blow up Hitler. Trevor-Roper had no memory of even meeting Chester but agreed to look over a radio script he seemed to have written that I had found in Chester's papers. We had a delightful afternoon tea at the House of Lords, and I gave him a photocopy of the script, but never heard from him again. His wife died shortly ...