THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to May Harrison

Letter No. VWL5238

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to May Harrison

Letter No.: VWL5238


The White Gates
Dorking

6 Oct 1947

My dear May

Thankyou for your lovely card – I know Chelsea so well and it is heartrending to see the lovely picture of the church which is now gone for ever. Our love to you from us both
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams


1. Chelsea Old Church, at the end of Cheyne Walk where VW once lived, had been destroyed on 16 April 1941, in the bombing in World War 2. It was reconstructed between 1950 and 1954.