THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

1, Albert Place,
Kensington. W

4.2.13.

Dear Vaughan Williams

I cannot go to bed without writing you a few words to say how enormously I enjoyed your work. “Magnificent” is the only word I can think of that conveys my feelings.  It stands for me among the four really great choral works.  It is jolly of you to have written it.¹
Yours ever

Arthur Somervell

Please don’t take any notice of this note in the way of answering it.

1. The first London performance of A Sea Symphony had been given that evening at the Queen’s Hall. See Catalogue of Works.