¹ Where the T-Rs were staying as guests of the Duchess of Buccleuch.

² Plato’s Phaedo is the dialogue in which Socrates contemplates the immortality of the soul before being forced to drink hemlock.

³ At Greenwich, in 1597, Elizabeth delivered impromptu in Latin a famous denunciation of Spanish trading practices coupled with a fierce rebuke to Paweł Działyński, the uncouth and blustering ambassador of Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland.

⁴ Anne Conway (1630?–1679), Viscountess Conway. During the war T-R had read, at Pearsall Smith’s recommendation, Marjorie Hope Nicolson’s edition of The Conway Letters (1930). The book inspired him with the wish to write a history of the English ruling classes; see Wartime Journals, 150–3.

¹ Harriet Martineau (1802–76), author of Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–34), Society in America (1837), and Laws of Man’s Social Nature (1851).

² Catharine Macaulay (1731–91), who wrote a Whig narrative history of 17th-century England.

³ Richard Martineau (1906–84), classics master at Eton, was appointed in 1967 as College Lecturer in Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics 1969–74.

⁴ Sir Samuel Dill (1844–1924), Professor of Greek at Queen’s College, Belfast, 1890–1924, published his great work on Roman Society in 1898.