Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy
Letter No. VWL3287
Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael Kennedy
Letter No.: VWL3287
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.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 159, f.228