THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

Aug 8 [1943]

Dear Herbert

I seem to be discovering you!  Now it is the string 4^tet which is lovely.¹
Thank you for it – I feel ashamed of myself – but as you know I am very bad at looking under bushels.
Yrs

RVW

1. Two string quartets by Howells are listed in New Grove: Phantasy, 1918 (which had won a Cobbett prize) and In Gloucestershire, 1923. According to a note on the envelope this letter was written after hearing the former.