THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Beryl Lock

Letter No. VWL3206

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Beryl Lock

Letter No.: VWL3206


From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park,
London, N.W.1.

[14th Oct 1955]

My dear Beryl

Thank you both for that lovely scarf and for remembering my birthday.  We had a good time in B’ham1 and very fine performances – everyone most kind and hospitable. Tomorrow we are off to Cork.2 Life seems very full just at present.
Love from

Ralph

Lady Lock
Valley Gate
Milford-on-Sea
Hampshire


1.  Birmingham where VW had conducted his Serenade to Music and had heard the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play his Fourth Symphony on 11th October – see R.V.W.: a biography, p.366.
2. On the 15th, VW opened a room in the University College, Cork, to house mementoes of Arnold Bax, and gave the inaugural Bax lecture on “Some aspects of English Folk Song at the University of Cork.