Stuk 214 - Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to R. C. Trevelyan

Identificatie

referentie code

TRER/16/214

Titel

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to R. C. Trevelyan

Datum(s)

  • 26 Dec [1944?] (Vervaardig)

Beschrijvingsniveau

Stuk

Omvang en medium

1 item

Context

Inhoud en structuur

Bereik en inhoud

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"'.

Verwante materialen

Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën

British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/15, ff.193-194

Notitie Publicaties

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

Aantekeningen

Aantekening

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.

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