THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

[January 1940]

My Dear
I loved your poem – it was shown and approved of.
By the way in that Shelley you said you liked the line “neither to change nor falter nor repent”
– my copy reads flatter which I always thought poor – Now I see the correct is falter¹
Love from
RVW

1. From Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, see VWL1228, VWL1644. VW was beginning work on Six choral songs – to be sung in time of war, Catalogue of Works p.178 (1940/1); this text appears in no. 4, the Song of Victory.