THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

Sept 14 [1950?]

Dear Buckland
Thankyou for your “Apologia pro Vita Mea” which I am sure did you good & interested me (so far as I could read it) very much. By the way I never said that I composed “at the piano” – That is to say that I did what the young composers in sentimental novels do – sat at the piano to structure a beautiful chord & then write it down (or get someone else to) But if I do use the p^fte to help me – when E.G. I am not sure that I have got the harmony I want I go to the pfte to make sure – but if you can get by without it all well
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams