THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

20th April, 1949.

Dear Christopher

I think your string piece¹ is beautiful.  Is it published? It ought to be done often.  Do the other string orchestras know about it?  I suppose the silly, stuffy people on the “Musical Times” and elsewhere will label it “folky”, but why not?

all my love to Phyllis
yrs RVW
(R. Vaughan Williams).

Christopher le Fleming, Esq.,
Rural Music Council,
10, Gloucester Place,
London, W.1.

1.  Pilford suite was published in 1951.