THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Dorking

Oct 19 [1942]

Dear Herbert

Thank you so much.¹
What I want to do now is to wipe the slate clean & try to learn how to compose music.
Do you think there is still time?²
Yrs

RVW

1. For a letter of greetings for VW’s 70th birthday.
2. VW had had ‘composer’s block’ and restarted in the late 1930s with the Fifth Symphony.