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- 23 July [1934] (Creation)
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The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking. - Thanks Bessy for writing; is 'sitting up for the 1st time', and feels 'ridiculously well', but cannot put his 'stupid foot' [on which an abscess had turned septic] on the ground until it is fully healed. Is not learning a new instrument, but luckily has a lot of proofs to correct; has also completed "plucking the partridge" [perhaps a reference to "The Running Set"?]. Notes in a postscript that there was a 'fine puff of Ursula & Julian in the "Evening Standard" yesterday'
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British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/8, f.176
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Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL1070: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl1070
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The editors of the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams project date this letter to 1933, but the engagement and marriage of Julian Trevelyan and Ursula Darwin did not take place until 1934.