THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[1938?]

Dear Randolph

It was splendid of you to send me that cow-horn photograph – & nicer still to see your handwriting once again.
Don’t you think we ought to have a dinner of the old Sea-tollerians one evening – or at all events you and Maurice & me – like that famous one years ago when Maurice made the historic remark “what we want is an expensive rather than a good meal”.¹
Tell Iris that I read her book on Cambridgeshire with great pleasure.²
Yours

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  VW had in mind a re-union of those who were in the reading party at Seatoller in Cumberland in 1895, which included Wedgwood and Sir Maurice Amos.
2. Fenland Rivers: Impressions of the Fen Counties (London, Rich & Cowan, 1936).