THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

27th August, 1947.

Mrs. Kreibich
Burchett House
South Terrace
Dorking

Dear Mrs Kreibich
I was much grieved to hear from Mrs. Turner of the death of your husband. I had a great personal affection for him and our Committee was very grateful to him for all the fine work which he did at Burchett House.¹
My wife asks to be remembered to you and sends her affectionate sympathy.
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams

1. The Kreibichs had fostered a refugee child from the Kindertransport, and lived at Burchett House, a hostel for German refugees loaned by the Duke of Newcastle. With the novelist E.M. Forster, VW had founded the Dorking and District Refugee Committee.