THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

College Inn
Bryn Mawr
Penn.

[About 1st November 1932]

Dear Imogen

Thank you so much for your card – which came, for some reason, a day later than the avalanche.¹ I go to New York on the 12th for 2 nights  & will duly pronounce your blessing on it – the chief thing I noticed as I passed through was that the Woolworth B^dg is now quite insignificant
I have to stand up before a class the day after each lecture & be heckled by a crowd of young women – who ask me “what I meant by” then they refer to their note books – I’ve come off fairly unscathed up to the present.²
Give my love to Vicky if you are still staying with her.³
Yrs

Uncle Ralph

1. i.e. of all the letters of birthday wishes on his 60th birthday on 12th October 1932.
2. VW was giving a series of lectures in the USA. See VWL1018.
3. Victoria Reid, later Mrs Leonard Ingrams, with whom Imogen Holst was staying in Scotland.