Item 186 - Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to R. C. Trevelyan

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TRER/16/186

Title

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to R. C. Trevelyan

Date(s)

  • 1 Jan [1946?] (Creation)

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1 item

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The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking. - Thanks Bob for the new poems [ his yearly 'Christmas card' "From the Shiffolds"]; likes them very much, especially the Catullus, Finds none of them 'quite up to the poem to Ursula last year' but perhaps this isread more

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Existence and location of copies

British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/16, f. 104

Publication note

Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL2025: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl2025

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Note

Pencil annotation dating the letter '1947'; the editors of the 'Letters of Vaughan Williams' project date it to 1946.

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