THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Cunard Line
RMS “Parthia”

[late September 1954]

Dear Alan
Thank you all for the wonderful box of flowers. We have some on our table as well as in the cabin, & they give us constant pleasure.¹
So far we’ve had a swell, cold winds & rain – but they promise us the Gulf Stream tomorrow, so we shall wee.
With greetings from us both, & thanks to you all
Ursula Vaughan Williams
P.S.
Ralph says could you get him
a) Les Romanesques by Rostand.
b) a Translation, called he thinks, The Romantics, by Sutro²
c) find out what are the translation rights, if we want to do a new one.
d) All this may come to nothing at all!

1. The VWs were en route to the United States of America.
2. Les Romanesques appeared in several English translations, as The Romancers, but not apparently by Sutro, who translated many other works.