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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Curle, Cordelia, 1879-1970
Letter No. VWL2117
Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Cordelia Curle
Letter No.: VWL2117
Friday [3rd November 1950]
Belov Boo
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R is off to London tomorrow to be at the Academy when Adrian goes through R’s & Ursula’s “Sons of Light” to the teachers, so that they get an idea of it before teaching the Schools – Afterwards he & Ursula go to a matinee because R wants to see the work of a Producer who is on the ‘tapis’ for Pilgrim.
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