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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Boyle, Ina Selina, 1889-1967
Letter No. VWL890
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ina Boyle
Letter No.: VWL890
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[?March 1930]
Dear Miss Boyle
I fear I cannot manage anything till Saturday – wd that suit you – I have an engagement at 4.0 3.30 on Saturday afternoon. Could you come in the morning say about 11.0.
(Trains from Waterloo 9.25 or 10.5 Dorking North Station. Then we could have the whole morning and my wife hopes you will lunch with us & we cd go on [in] the afternoon if necessary – ask for a Westcott Bus – get off at the play house & walk straight on about 300 yards & it is up the 3rd turning on the left
Yrs sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
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Appears to relate to first lesson at Dorking so perhaps mid to late March 1930.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 160, ff.19-20
