THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

[About 5th February 1942]

Dear Arnold

I had hoped to see you on Tuesday & to congratulate not indeed you but those who had the good sense (to) show publicly their appreciation of your work.¹ I know that “honours” mean little to you – but they are the only way of telling the world how your music is admired by your fellow countrymen including of course
Yrs

RVW

1. Written on Bax’s appointment as Master of the King’s Musick, which had been gazetted on Tuesday 3rd February 1942.