One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper

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The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper''s life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of rich diversity; a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity; a character that relished the com¿e humaine, and the absurdities, crotchets, and vanities of his contemporaries. The playful irony of Trevor-Roper''s correspondence places him in a literary tradition stretching back to such great letter-writers as Madame de S¿gn¿nd Horace Walpole. Though he generally shunned emotional self-exposure in correspondence as in company, his letters to the woman who became his wife reveal the surprising intensity and the raw depths of his feelings. Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation, and one of the most famous dons of his day. While still a young man, he made his name with his