THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The Old Barn
Holmbury St Mary
Dorking

[August 1928?]

Dear Maud
I’m fearfully sorry I can’t come – I had to go up to London yesterday & I can’t manage another day, with a lot of the opera still to be scored.¹
-But I suppose the die is cast & we must just accept – I’m very sorry about it – I suppose Miss Lawrence² w^d not be a good person to put in? W^d it be a good plan if you felt inclined to come down here for the day & talk things over – we sh^d love to see you any day before 18th – except 5, 6 & 7 when I am at Gloucester³ – most exciting about your Oldham dance
Yrs
RVW

1. Perhaps for a meeting of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The opera may have been The Poisoned Kiss or Sir John in love (see VWL634).
2. Miss E.F. Lawrence, later a prominent memebr of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
3. For the Three Choirs Festival.