THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[June 1936]

My Dear Cedric

I thoroughly enjoyed your first rate letter – don’t fall in love with the daughters as well as the music of the great man.¹
Give my profound respects to Kilpinen (& to the GREAT MAN if he remembers having once met me)
We must get you a good job when you return
Yrs

RVW

P.S.  I listened to Cuchullain – it is very good. Waddington liked it.²

1. Thorpe Davie was in Finland (the letter was addressed to him c/o Hinnerichsen, Rehbindervägen 4/7, Helsingfors, Finland). ‘The Great Man’ is Sibelius, but Davie was studying with Kilpinen.
2. VW had asked Davie to submit the score of his work Dirge for Cuthullin to Sydney P. Waddington at the Royal College of Music with a view to a possible performance – which it clearly received. See VWL813.