THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

Oct 13 [1957]

Dear Herbert
What a lovely present – I hope I shan’t get as drunk and as I did on the same wine at Bristol on degree day.¹
yrs RVW

1.  The present, presumably a bottle of wine, was for VW’s 85th birthday. He had been given their first honorary doctorate in Music by Bristol University on 14 December 1951.  See R.V.W.: a biography, p.314.