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<jats:p>The feeling of nature I think is what I like so much in Grieg's best things. You have it too & I think we all 3 have something in common.</jats:p><jats:p>Delius to Grainger, 10 June 1907.</jats:p><jats:p>Spring always means for me a longing for Norway.</jats:p><jats:p>Delius to Grainger, January 1914.</jats:p><jats:p>A ‘Norwegian Cuckoo’? Well perhaps not Norwegian literally, but certainly figuratively. Perhaps, as we shall see, nothing more than an accidental cadence. Delius thought so, even if Grieg didn't; and it was probably Grainger who inadvertently acted as the go-between.</jats:p>