THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates.

March 5 [1939?]

Dear Joyce & Gerald

We have just been celebrating a wedding – not in Dork[ing] this time¹ but in London. Bob² has taken this great step and we think it is a good step. We like his Eileen – she is 23 – dark & charming & very direct. She seems to understand Bob – She is not a communist or any ’ist – has been on her own. He is quite sure that domesticity is going to be the right thing for him. I told Bob that I should write to you.
I hope you will see them both before very long.
When do you pass through? for surely yr house is nearly finished now?³
Love from us
AMVW

1.  A reference to Joy and Gerald’s wedding in 1933.
2.  On Adeline’s cousin Robert de Ropp see VWL914. He married Eileen M. Trinder in 1939.
3.  The Finzis were building a house at Church Farm, Ashmansworth.