THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

November 10th 1952

My Dear Bessie

I am so glad that things are progressing with regard to the books.¹ I am so sorry I could not listen to the Röntgen quartet,² but I could not get to London that night.
You ask about the Sinfonia Antarctica.³  I call it that because the music is derived from something I wrote for the film “Scott of the Antarctic”.
Love from

Ralph.

1. VW started a subscription list to buy Robert Trevelyan’s library for London University which succeeded in raising about £400.
2. Founded in 1940 by Joachim Röntgen, whose father Julius was a relative of Elizabeth Trevelyan.
3. As VW called this work originally; the spelling was later corrected to Sinfonia Antartica, Catalogue of Works 1952/2.