Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph Vaughan Williams
Letter No. VWL1360
Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph Vaughan Williams
Letter No.: VWL1360
Friday smorn [15 July 1938]
Dear one
We had a very good Pag1 last evening. Hon2 placed me the further side near the band – The smuse fitted wonderfully well – & was bufe3 – It was better heard for it was a still evening – mostly grey & a bit chilly later on. There was a great body of schoolboys from London who were camping – very attentive near me. Our family party sat together – Mrs Buck & Joan4 – Mrs Fryer & sister & Brett5. They were very happy – and the crowd there was satisfactory – all seats taken except the 2 front rows! G & H & Daphne there but I had no speech with them. Hon enjoyed herself – & we were back soon after 9.30. The time was brisker.
I’ll now write answers according to yr instructions – Nothing suitable for you today! but 2nd proofs of Serenade have just come in. All very well here – So hope you are getting refreshment of spiriwig6. That is the main thing?
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1. i.e. Pageant. See R.V.W.: a biography, p.222.
2. Honorine WIlliamson
3. beautiful. The music was England’s Pleasant Land, Catalogue of Works 1938/1.
4. Mrs Buckton was the daily help at White Gates and Joan one of her daughters.
5. The gardener at White Gates.
6. spirit or inspiration? VW was staying at a cottage in Wiltshire ‘on retreat’ and beginning to compose after a period of writer’s block.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/1/11, ff.40-41