THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood

Letter No. VWL381

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood

Letter No.: VWL381


13 Cheyne Walk
Chelsea, S.W.

[18th January 1912]

Dear Randolph

You are the big man you deserve to be now – a triumph for the principle of bad-fellowship. Stick to it – it’s the best in the end I believe.1
Yrs

RVW


1. Wedgwood had been appointed Chief Goods Manager of the North Eastern Railway at York. Quite what the ‘principle of bad-fellowship’ signifies in this context is not clear.