Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Jean Stewart
Letter No. VWL5158
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Jean Stewart
Letter No.: VWL5158
[16 February 1943]
My Most Beloved Jean
Alas – the scherzo refuses to materialize and will have to wait for next birthday1
– I send you all my love & as much more as you want
Uncle Ralph
1. VW had composed the first two movements of String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (Catalogue of Works 1944/2) as a gift for Jean Stewart for her birthday, to play with the Menges Quartet. The work is dedicated “For Jean on her birthday”. The remainder of the quartet was composed during 1943-4 and the whole first performed on 12th October 1944. See Catalogue of Works, p.186.
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Date assumed as just before Jean’s birthday on 17 February. See also her acknowledgement of the quartet, VWL1752, dated 18 February 1943.
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