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TRER/16/214
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Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 26 Dec [1944?] (Creation)
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The White Gates, Dorking. - Bob's poem to Ursula is 'beautiful', particularly the lines 'Then let the house...' to 'royally'; this is what he himself has 'been trying to explain' to his pupils all his life in his 'clumsy way' is 'the meaning of "technique"'.
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British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/15, ff.193-194
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Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL1953: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl1953
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The poem to Ursula appeared as the dedication to Bob's "Virgil: The Eclogues and the Georgics translated into English verse", published in 1944, though a pencil annotation on this letter suggests "1946?" as the date.