THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
S.W.

[26th August 1909]

Dear Randolph

The cheese is delicious we had it for lunch on our return from Leith Hill Place and we feel absolutely crammed with proteids.¹ We had Iris’s letter today² – I do hope you’ve been having a good holiday – your post card was a work of art of the 1st order.  I am writing this to Barlaston³ – I’ve just been visiting my home and I sympathize – I saw Maurice⁴ for a few minutes in London.  He was to have come to Leith Hill Place while we were there – but he went off into the wilds in a motor instead.
When do you go back home – write and tell us “all about yourselves” – Do you see that Hadow has been made boss of Armstrong College?⁵
We are sending the other cheese on to C# as per your esteemed order.⁶ Adeline will be writing to Iris soon & meanwhile sends her love.
Yrs affectionately

R. Vaughan Williams

R. L. Wedgwood E
Barlaston on Sea
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffs

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2. Iris Wedgwood, wife of Ralph Wedgwood.
3. Barlaston Lea, Stoke-on-Trent, the Wedgwood family home.
4. Maurice Amos
5. Henry Hadow, writer on music and educational administrator, was appointed to Armstrong College in 1909. He was later Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. Armstrong College at Newcastle-on-Tyne was a division of Durham University, later becoming a university in its own right.
6. Presumably Cecil Sharp.