THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[Christmas 1950]

Dear Bob

Thank you for your beautiful poems – especially the first. How alarmingly modern Leopardi’s sentiments appear sometimes.¹
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1. Trevelyan had published Translations from Leopardi in 1941, comprising 14 English translations of poems from Leopardi’s Canti.