Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael and Eslyn Kennedy
Letter No. VWL3303
Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael and Eslyn Kennedy
Letter No.: VWL3303
Villa Cristabella, Forio d’Ischia Italy
26th [April 1958]
The Metamorphoses1 are just right for this island. We had lunch in this bay last Sunday, where hot springs run into the sea – such a sensible arrangement! & broom in flower all over the cliffs. The change has been exactly right for Ralph & he is already starting Act III of the opera. I am only just ahead of him.2 Weather only middling but wild flowers [and] lizards a joy.
Fond love to you both from us both
Ursula
1. According to MK not the poems by Ovid but another which he had given them.
2. VW was writing Thomas the Rhymer to a libretto by UVW. The work remained unfinished at his death. On the writing see RVW, pp. 392-94.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 159, f.225
