THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

Oct 29 [1943]

Dear Mrs O’Neill

This is a great dissappointment¹ – Ruth Dyson² said the other day that your concert was the best we had had – But I quite understand and we must be content with you over the wireless.³
Yours very sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1. sic.
2. Keyboard player, later Professor at the Royal College of Music. Played violin in the Leith Hill Musical Festival orchestra. Daughter of the VWs’ doctor at Dorking. See IWWM12.
3. Presumably O’Neill had declined the invitation in VWL1814 to play in Dorking.