THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates

March 30 [1949]

Dear Gerald

I think I ought to have written to you to say that Alan Frank was most ready to issue a brochure & we have seen a proof. The photograph – lent by Morris’s Sister is not our Morris – it looks more robust than he ever was.
I liked all you have written for the RCM¹ – I only had a slight hesitation over “fawnlike sensualism” not that it isn’t real but perhaps not for just there – however R never questioned it – nor I expect will Miss Chissell.²
R did not feel he could write – he dreaded it – but Sir George Dyson³ was so insistent that poor R pulled himself together & he has written a few prefertary (?)⁴ lines to your satisfying tribute.
My love to Joyce
Yrs

AMVW

1. Royal College of Music
2. Joan Chissell, then editor of the Royal College of Music Magazine.
3.  Director of the Royal College of Music until 1952.
4. sic.