Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Cordelia Curle
The Plaza
Fifth Avenue
Beloved Boo
We have come here for 1 night from Boston. Mr Stoeckel1 still sticks to us & pays everything! Today we say goodbye to him & go to the Atwaters - we shall have 4 days with them - Then the Berengaria again. Its cool after the thunderstorms -
There is a very good kind of melon here the canterlope2 & you cut it in half take out the seeds & then it is filled up with pink ice cream. Mr Stoeckel loves sight seeing & the cafe life - Lunch at 1 spreads itself out till 3 or 4! Ralph is feeling restive & says he now knows how Mozart & his contemporaries felt living under a patron.
This will probably be the last letter you may get - we ought to be home by June 26th if we have a good passage - Shall we see you on yr way to Devonshire? Any how we will meet.
Yr
A
Love to Ad.3
1. Carl Stoeckel.
2. sic.
3. Adam Curle, son of Cordelia.
Location of original letter:
Two passages printed in R.V.W.: a biography, p.144. Cordelia Curle was the youngest of Adeline's three sisters, with whom Adeline kept up an almost daily correspondence. Year from postmark.