Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy
Letter No. VWL3548
Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy
Letter No.: VWL3548
MRS. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
10 HANOVER TERRACE
LONDON, N.W.1.
[10th September 1957]
Yes – the Graves would be a splendid choice – how nice – we shall both enjoy it.1
Ralph is much better – still on odd pills, but opera going! Trovatore last night – an odd affair. I hope that Eslyn will follow suit – only of course, she is able to lead a more glamourous life than R. who is always involved with ink when he is prone. Gil2 home from America, all safe – and Genia3 expecting Yania’s triumphal return with his business deals in the bag.
Love from both to both.
U.
1. The Kennedys had apparently suggested a present of the poetry of Robert Graves as a gift for VW. See VWL3553
2. Sir Gilmour Jenkins.
3. Genia Hornstein and her husband.
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Date taken from postmark. The only Trovatore performance traced in London at that time was by the Carl Rosa Company, who presented it in English in the Chiswick Empire on Friday 20 September.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 159, f.185