THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[Newcastle, 29th March, 1939]

My Dear
We never seem to meet now. Last Wed: I had to be in N/C¹ & now College term is over & I shall not be going to London except casually. So I suppose you will get tired of me & replace me by D.N.K.² or  or the Devoted Artist³.
As regards Epi[thalamion],⁴ I can’t collect the players this week & then Douglas goes away for a 4tnight & then I am in the thick of our Dorking Fest – so there you are!
If I do come up to London & am free may I ring up (send me your tel: number which I have lost)?
Which spec⁵ did you poem appear in. Let me know.
Are you and Maud coming to hear the B minor mass on April 21 – if so I will get you tickets.⁶
Yrs
RVW

1. Newcastle, where VW had been on 29th March to conduct a performance of Five Tudor Portraits given by the Newcastle and Gateshead Choral Union and the Newcastle Symphony Orchestra.
2. Douglas Kennedy, Director of The English Folk Dance and Song Society.
3. The young artist in VWL653.
4. The Bridal Day, the ballet which Ursula and VW initially called Epithalamion while they were creating it.
5. i.e. The Spectator.
6. In Dorking. He did send tickets – see VWL1558.