THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[June 1940]

My Dear

Thank you for the poem – I do hope it is true – but not in our time perhaps – I have got to think of the younger generation – I do hope you will have years of peace – perhaps a few for me too – But I feel more hopeful now we have shed our incubus.¹
Yrs

RVW

1. A reference to the fall of France in June 1940.