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# Two Learned Men; Six Volumes
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/two-learned-men-six-volumes/
- Published: 2025-05-29T08:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-29T12:12:25.000Z
- Description: I only have the single volume "Section," but it's enjoyable
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Biography, Literature

Today’s dispatch? The letters of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis, two names that might as well be scrawled on the back of a dusty pub coaster for all the recognition they get in our lobotomized age.

Lyttelton’s name flickered faintly in my mind, like a half-remembered tavern sign, but I hadn’t a clue why anyone would bother printing his private scribblings with a friend. My first guess? Maybe they were a pair of buttoned-up Anglican conservatives, penning coded love notes in a clandestine romp that would’ve made the vicar blush.

Wrong.

These weren’t star-crossed gay lovers or political firebrands. They were just men of letters: Lyttelton, an Eton professor steeped in classics and English lit, and Hart-Davis, a publisher with ink in his veins.

In these letters, they scratch out their thoughts in mid-twentieth-century England, back when erudite gents with a knack for words were as common as pigeons in Trafalgar Square.

Politics? They gave it a wide berth, proving Russell Kirk’s point that only the quarter-educated bother with that circus. Religion? Not their bag. Marriage? Lyttelton was content with his wife, while Hart-Davis juggled.

These two were the kind of blokes you’d kill to share a pint with. Their letters crackle with wit sharp enough to slice through the fog of our current idiocy.

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