THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[?Spring 1947]

My Dear Randolph

I am delighted to have the “Robins Nest”. I wish I could remember the year I wrote it –  Adeline is really on the mend now & sends you her love.¹
Yrs

Ralph

1. ‘The Robin’s Nest’ was written in 1878 (see Catalogue of Works under that year) and is VW’s first extant composition. The manuscript, apparently owned by Wedgwood but returned to VW, is now British Library Add MS 54186.