THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, Surrey.

12th March, 1952.

Dear Sidney Newman,¹
Thank you so much for your kind and appreciative telegram.
I wish we met more often. The last time we really met was a most amusing evening in Newcastle with Steuart Wilson.²
I was in Edinburgh a few months ago but had no time to see anyone.³
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams

(R. Vaughan Williams).

Professor Newman,
13, Strathearn Place,
Edinburgh.

1. Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University. It is not clear to what the telegram may have related.
2. The Newcastle occasion was probably Sunday 4 December 1938, when VW conducted the Newcastle Philharmonic Orchestra in the City Hall, Mary Wilson played the cello and Steuart Wilson sang.
3. VW had been in Edinburgh to rehearse Pilgrim’s Progress in March 1951.