Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Jean Stewart
Letter No. VWL5064
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Jean Stewart
Letter No.: VWL5064
Dorking
Dec 26 [1943]
My most beloved & sweetest Jean
I feel so frightened about the 4tet. that it won’t be good enough.
We must meet soon – the only days I naturally come to London till Jan 25 – except Dec 30 which is not one of your days & Jan 2d which is the concert day1 & I go (I believe to tea with Ursula after (I don’t think that wd be a very opportune time) so I must come up specially – choose a day & let me know & we will either lunch, tea or dinner & we will go carefully through the viola part & allow ourselves plenty of time & opportunity for all that will befall after & during
all my love
Uncle Ralph
P.S. Don’t choose the following – V.S.
not to be chosen
any Wednesday or Saturday or Jan 16 – otherwise free – except part of Monday.
1. The “concert day” on January 2nd was an English Folk Dance and Song concert in Wigmore Hall, with the Fleet Street Choir and Jacques String Orchestra. VW conducted two concluding carols.
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The string quartet in A minor (“For Jean on Her Birthday”) was composed in 1943-4 and first performed on 12 October 1944.
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