Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Montgomery
Letter No. VWL4859
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Montgomery
Letter No.: VWL4859
The White Gates,
Dorking.
May 20 [1951]
Dear Peter
Thankyou so much for your letter which I was very glad to receive. I am glad to say she1 heard P.P.2 twice over the wireless.
Please give all kind thoughts to your father from me
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams
1. Presumably ‘she’ is Adeline, who had died ten days earlier, and this letter is a response to one of condolence.
2. Pilgrim’s Progress had been first performed and broadcast on 26 and 30 April 1951.
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VW had stayed with Peter Montgomery’s family, who were relatives of his, in Blessingbourne in Northern Ireland in February 1933.
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/2/6, ff. 46-47
