THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

October 14th 1952

My Dear Hubert

A personal thought from you is a better present than all the marble clocks and Purdoneums¹ in the world. I cannot hang up anything so laudatory for my friends to see, so I shall keep it in a drawer, where I keep my other valuables.²
Yrs

RVW

My love (if I may be so bold) to M^rs Hubert.

1. An elaborate form of coal scuttle invented by a Mr Purdon.
2. Foss had written a sonnet to VW on his birthday and had had it calligraphically written out by Henry Ball and framed.