Letter from Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Michael and Eslyn Kennedy
Letter No. VWL3304
Letter from Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Michael and Eslyn Kennedy
Letter No.: VWL3304
Villa Cristabella (Not Drina – the postman understands)
[15 April 1958]
We had a bumpy flight, saw a very bad opera – a new one – in the ravishing opera house at Naples, and went to Herculaneum. This is a lovely house, terraces, hills covered with broom in flower, cyclamen & grape hyacinths – but very cold, & little sunshine – however we are going to enjoy all, we keep warm with wine, wood fires & jerseys in bed! Ralph seems very well again
The opera we saw said to be founded on Sardinian folk songs. If that is so God help the Sardines!1
R
1. This paragraph in VW’s hand, the rest in UVW’s.
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General Notes:
UVW had given the address to the Kennedys in advance as Villa Drina. The villa, on Ischia, belonged to William and Susanna Walton.
Date taken from partially legible postmark and context.
This letter is printed in part in Kennedy, Works of Vaughan Williams, p.391. -
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 159, f.238
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Citation:Cobbe 745
