Item 42 - Letter from Donald Tovey to R. C. Trevelyan

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2 St Margaret's Road, Edinburgh. - Is 'beginning to see daylight about the 3rd Act [of "The Bride of Dionysus"] Has been showing the work to T. [?] Fuller Maitland [a relative of J. A. Fuller Maitland?] 'who seems much interested and quite intelligent'. Feels they must take advantage of 'the veil of mist at the crisis'. Describes the way in which he envisages the scene: is not certain yet how it will work, but is happy with the principle, which will give relief to the singers, deepen the 'mystification of the audience' and also introduce something he has 'always hankered after, an effective doubt as to whether the mortal Ariadne has not fallen over the cliff after all'.