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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Adeline, 1870-1951 to Scott, Marion
Letter No. VWL3242
Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Marion Scott
Letter No.: VWL3242
13 Cheyne Walk
[Wednesday 15 Nov 1922]
Dear Miss Scott
These 3 letters came to my husband today – He thinks one of them is for Mr Harvey? but he does not know his address. My husband is writing to I.G.1
Dr. Chambers telephoned that he is answering my husband’s letter – so we hope that we shall have something to report to you soon – the sooner there is a change the better.
Yours very sincerely
Adeline Vaughan Williams
1. Ivor Gurney; VW has presumably written to the psychiatric hospital where Ivor Gurney was undergoing care for ‘mental distress’. ‘Mr Harvey’ is Gurney’s friend Will (Frederick William Harvey); see Kate Kennedy, Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney.
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Shelfmark:G61(286)
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/25, f.121
