Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood

Letter No. VWL216

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood

Letter No.: VWL216

November 26 [1906]

Dear Randolph

If I’d known you were coming back so soon I’d have sent a triumphal arch to Newcastle station in addition to all the others which doubtless greeted you. Give my love to Iris & say that I want to see that beautiful mantilla in real life. It did me good to see your face without a line in it.
Leeds is off probably – Stanford doesn’t like the work¹ in its present form – on the whole I am glad because it will give me time to put it right away and make it really good.
Yrs affectionately

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1. Possibly the early draft of A Sea Symphony or, more probably, Toward the Unknown Region.

To:

Wedgwood, Ralph L. (Ralph Lewis), 1874-1956
From:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Scribe:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Names:

Stanford, Charles Villiers, 1852-1924 Wedgwood, Iris Veronica (nee Pawson), 1887-1982
Musical Works:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Toward the unknown region Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Symphonies, no. 1 (A Sea Symphony)
Format:

Letter
General Notes:

Included in a letter from Adeline to Iris Wedgwood.
Location Of Original:

British Library
Shelfmark:

MS Mus. 1714/1/3, f. 41

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