Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood
Dear Randolph
This is all the paper I can find. I hear that Sandwich is a beautiful place - there of course remains the Sors Tertia1 i.e. Neither Normandy nor Romney Marsh but somewhere about half way up England - say the Norfolk or Lincolnshire coast (both I think quite flat - it will make me positively ill to see anything more than 100 feet high - write and give an opinion.2
R. Vaughan Williams
1. Possibly VW had in mind the saying written on the schoolroom wall at Winchester College: ‘Aut disce, aut discede, manet sors tertia caedi’.
2. Perhaps the question was one of possible locations for a reading party, such as that which took place at Seatoller in 1895.
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Written during undergraduate times at Cambridge? Handwriting very early.