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.
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Date from postmark. In what must been a flying visit, VW and UVW got to Dublin from London on the morning of Saturday the 15th; possibly the journey actually began on the 14th.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/1/21, ff. 38-39