THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

September 9th 1953

Dear Dr Sumsion

I want to express my great gratitude first to you as prime mover and secondly to all those soloists, chorus and orchestra who combined to give an inspired performance off¹ my ‘Dona’.²
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams

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2. This was an afternoon performance on 8 September. VW conducted, but Sumsion did much of the preparation.