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. Possibly the Rontgen Quartet concert in the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) Galleries (Suffolk Street, London) on Wednesday 15 October.
3. As VW called this work originally; the spelling was later corrected to Sinfonia Antartica, Catalogue of Works 1952/2.