Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph Vaughan Williams
Letter No. VWL1336
Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph Vaughan Williams
Letter No.: VWL1336
Tuesday [12 July 1938]
Dear one
2 letters – and I felt so happy to have them –
Even if compo doesn’t come the new scenes & the quiet bit will sow the seed.1
All is well with us – a lovely day – Brett spread the hay yesterday – & believes Mr Arthur2 will take it – It is dry now.
No letters of the right kind to send you. But how ashamed I was to have forgotten to put ‘de quoi’ in your case – Hon has bought you a pkt of Bromo – what have you done? Smuse3 paper is so solid.
I send a cheque for pfte
AVW
1. The Fifth Symphony. See VWL1362.
2. The local builder.
3. i.e. music.
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General Notes:
The envelope, addressed to Rose Cottage, Stapleford, Salisbury where VW was in retreat, working on the 5th symphony following a bout of composer’s block, is postmarked 14 July 1938. See R.V.W.: a biography, p.222.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/1/11, ff.38-39
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Citation:Cobbe 297
