Item 120 - Letter from Gerald Finzi to R. C. Trevelyan

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Ashmansworth, nr Newbury, Berks. - Has left till last his thanks for the 'one or two good things' sent at Christmas, and wants Trevelyan to know 'how much [he] appreciated' the 1946 "From the Shiffolds", which he will keep with the two collected volumes and everything else which has come out since then. Imagines that by now Trevelyan has 'more than enough to fill the two volumes of translations which will originally promised', and that these will come out in good time. Also hopes the collected works will be 'revived', with the additions of 'the good things that came afterwards'. Regrets that 'Composers are at a disadvantage' since any music they sent would be 'little more than hieroglyphics to all but a few'. Perhaps, on the contrary, 'the poet is at a disadvantage in knowing less about music than the musician knows about poetry!'. Asks 'boldly' to be remembered again in 1947.