Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald and Joy Finzi

Letter No. VWL2629

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald and Joy Finzi

Letter No.: VWL2629

Ursula Wood,
57, Gordon Mansions,
Torrington Place, WC1

R Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey

[1st February 1953]

Dear Gerald & Joyce

YOU WILL, WE THINK, NOT BE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT WE HAVE DECIDED TO MARRY SHORTLY.¹

OUR ADDRESSES WILL BE AS ABOVE FOR THE PRESENT, TILL WE FIND A SUITABLE HOUSE.

PLEASE GIVE US YOUR BLESSING.

(no flowers!)

Love from

Ursula
Uncle Ralph

1. In fact on 7th February.

To:

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956 Finzi, Joy, 1907-1991
From:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 Wood, Ursula, 1911-2007
Names:

Wood, Ursula, 1911-2007
Subject:

Marriage
Format:

Postcard
General Notes:

Printed card signed. Date from postmark.
This printed card which was sent to many of their friends is reproduced in Jerrold Northrop Moore, Vaughan Williams: A life in Photographs (Oxford 1992), p.104
Location Of Copy:

Bodleian Library, Oxford
Shelfmark Copy:

Finzi Box 10
Citation:

Cobbe 601