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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Adeline, 1870-1951 to Wedgwood, Ralph L. (Ralph Lewis), 1874-1956
Letter No. VWL199
Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood
Letter No.: VWL199
10 Barton St
May 31st [1905]
Dear Randolph
You have sent me such splendid letters. I can’t say how much we have liked having them. I wonder how England looks to you after Pittsburgh – how much you have seen – Let us hear – when you can – that you are safely back.1
Write to Tagwood
Cookham Dean
Berks
Ralph sends his love – I hope your dear mother is well.
Yours very affectionately
AMVW
We have been using your name as a reference. I hope you will say, if you are applied to, that we are fairly respectable.
I met Mrs Amos2 2 days ago who asked much after you.
R. L. Wedgwood Esq.
Hove Hill
Holgate
York
1. Ralph Wedgwood had been at a Railway Conference in the USA.
2. Presumably Sarah McLardie Amoes, the mother of VW’s friend Maurice Amos.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/1/3, ff.54-55
