THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

September 11th 1954.

Dearest Nancy
It was most sweet of you to write. You sang beautifully and looked lovely.¹ I did also so much like your white dress on Thursday evening. I hear that Helga would like my autograph – if you really think she would, here it is.²
All love from us both
Uncle Ralph

1. Evans had sung the soprano solo, which was composed for her voice,  in the first performance of Hodie (On this Day), on 8 September at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.
2. Helga Legge, Nancy Evans’ daughter from her first marriage to Walter Legge.