THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

MRS. R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, 10 HANOVER TERRACE, LONDON, N.W.1

[12 June 1958]

Gil is delighted!¹  All well – lovely night out at Cambridge on Sunday to hear Paddy’s² new piece, Tristan on Mon, Henry VIII yesterday³ – & tomorrow we go off for 2 days sightseeing in Lincolnshire!  R. splendid.  Opera coming along⁴ & roses begining⁵ – weather, like yours foul.
Will write, but house full & Edna⁶ away!
All love

Ursula

1.  Gilmour Jenkins had been sent a photograph of himself by Michael Kennedy.  See British Library MS Mus. 159, f.229, for his letter (13 June), to Michael Kennedy.
2.  Patrick Hadley (1899-1973), English composer.  The piece was Connemara (a fantasia on and around Irish folk tunes) – see R.V.W.: a biography, p. 395.
3. Henry VIII (with John Gielgud and Edith Evans) was the conclusion to The Old Vic’s five-year run through the whole of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
4. Thomas the Rhymer, which remained unfinished at his death.
5. sic.
6. Edna Harling was the VW’s housekeeper.