THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[6th September 1939]

My Dear

This is to thank you for your love and send you mine. You are lucky to have a job – I daresay I shall get one in time – but I feel my first duty is to my own belongings & I don’t want to do anything that will interfere with that. I hope that they, also, serve who only stand and wait.¹
Yrs

RVW

1.  Quotation from Milton’s sonnet on his blindness.  War had been declared on 3 September.