Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood
Letter No. VWL187
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood
Letter No.: VWL187
10, Barton Street,
Westminster.
[24th September 1904]
My Dear Randolph
I’m not going to write you a long letter, you will be knowing what I feel for you and for all of you much better than if I was to try and put it in words.
I know that your love for Cicely and her love for you is something so great that I have often felt that I could scarcely realize what it meant when I have watched you speaking of her, or her speaking of you.
Dear Randolph I won’t say any more to you, and please forgive me if I have said too much already.
Yours affectionately
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Addressed to Ralph Wedgwood at Hallsteads, Penrith; date from postmark.
The letter was written by VW after the death of Wedgwood’s sister, Cecily [Cicely] Frances, on 22 September 1904 but, since it reads as if she were still alive, possibly before news of her actual death (?after an accident or from a serious illness) had reached him. Cecily had married Maj-Gen Sir Arthur Wigram Money KCB RA on 26th December the year before. For details of Wedgwood’s family See Burke’s Peerage under both the Barony and Baronetcy of Wedgwood. Cecily’s name is spelt thus in Burke, but given VW’s referring to Cicely and the fact that Ralph Wedgwood’s daughter was christened Cicely Veronica, this may be an error in the publication. -
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Shelfmark:Add MS 71700, ff.9-10
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Citation:Cobbe 32
