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- [14 Sept 1932?] (Creation)
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The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking. - Saw the news in the "Times" this morning; glad he had met 'such a splendid man and fine musician [Bessy's brother in law Julius Engelbert Röntgen?]', and remembers the 'delightful visit to Amsterdam', as well as his visit to Dorking last year when he 'played to us so wonderfully'. Adeline sends her love.
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British Library, MS Mus 1714/2/6, f. 132
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Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL990: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl990
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The Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams project suggests a date of around 20 September 1932, but the notice of Rontgen's death appeared in the Times of 14 September, p12.