Item 185 - Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan and R. C. Trevelyan

Identity area

Reference code

TRER/16/185

Title

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan and R. C. Trevelyan

Date(s)

  • 22 June 1944 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 item

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Scope and content

The White Gates, Dorking. - Thanks them for their 'dear letters'; they and Hervey [his brother, who lived at Leith Hill Place near the Trevelyans and had recently died] were 'lucky in [their] neighbours' and realised that, for which he is 'very glad'.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/15, f.186

Publication note

Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL1918: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl1918

Notes area

Note

Pencil annotation dating the letter '1944': the year of Hervey Vaughan Williams' death.

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