{"id":1318,"date":"2017-12-22T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:15:10","slug":"geoffrey-trevelyans-letter-to-father-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2017\/12\/22\/geoffrey-trevelyans-letter-to-father-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Trevelyan&#8217;s letter to Father Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncllibspeccoll?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><strong>#ChristmasCountdown<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Door No. 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1435\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/CPT-Uncat-30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1435\" class=\" wp-image-1435\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/12\/CPT-Uncat-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter from Geoffrey Washington Trevelyan to Father Christmas, 1917 (CPT Uncat\/30)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This letter to Father Christmas was written by Geoffrey Washington Trevelyan, the youngest son of the politician Charles Philips and Lady Mary Trevelyan of Wallington (find out more about the Trevelyan Charles Philips Trevelyan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/special-collections\/collections\/collection_details.php?id=139\">here<\/a>). Written at his grandparents\u2019 house Rounton Grange on Christmas Eve 1917, when he was seven years old. Geoffrey requests that Father Christmas decorate the tree and bring presents for the children.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey later became an engineer at de Havilland, and the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Baronet of Wallington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ChristmasCountdown Door No. 22 This letter to Father Christmas was written by Geoffrey Washington Trevelyan, the youngest son of the politician Charles Philips and Lady Mary Trevelyan of Wallington (find out more about the Trevelyan Charles Philips Trevelyan here). Written &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2017\/12\/22\/geoffrey-trevelyans-letter-to-father-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[197,76,127,307,99],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmascountdown","tag-christmas","tag-father-christmas","tag-rounton-grange","tag-trevelyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}