"I have recently acquired a letter by the distinguished historian George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928) that will amuse readers and underline some cherished suppositions about the Victorian Age. It will, moreover, apparently recover several lines suppressed in a modest comic poem of some contemporary interest and fame. I can not, unfortunately, discover to whom the letter was addressed, nor whether any subsequent printing, much less enlargement, of the poem came about. Indeed, I cannot even discover precisely where in the poem Trevelyan was suggesting his lines be placed..."