Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood
My dear Randolph
Ralph may see you next week in the New Forest1 as he means to join Margaret2 at Salisbury on Easter Monday & bicycle through the Forest with her. He starts his holiday on Wednesday by going to Cheltenham. I am going to be less adventurous & am going to Brighton. I hope we may have you here again - if you did not find it too horribly uncomfortable - you shall always be as erratic as you like. We miss you very much. We went to the Davi3 the other evening on Theodore’s invitation - the 3 brothers had been entertaining the Malcolm Macnaughtons at dinner. I saw Charles for the first time - a great event - I think he is most interesting - do you know that his boots mildew? - he attributes it to the Westminster climate. Theodore looked most astonishingly happy.
I have not seen your sister but I did not expect to - but it would have been a pleasure.
Your affectionate
Adeline Vaughan Williams
1. On Vaughan Williams’s trip to the New Forest see VWL263.
2. Vaughan Williams’s sister.
3. i.e. the Llewellyn Davies brothers - plural of the Latin ‘Davus’.
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