Item 68 - Letter from Donald Tovey to R. C. Trevelyan

Hotel des Iles Britanniques, Aix-les-Bains. - Is sorry to be missing 'all the Röntgenialities' and sends them his love. Dionysus's exclamation [in Act III of "The Bride of Dionysus", see 7/67] disappears easily; blames his own 'characteristic Heath-Robinson contraptions' for its awkward placement. Has discovered another place for improvement: the excision of seven bars of music in the passage before the Investiture; illustrates this with musical notation. Originally enclosing a slip which Trevelyan can 'stick over the new joint'. The 'footballet' has come out slightly differently in the scoring; will send a new copy soon.