THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[April 14, 1942]

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I was very glad to see your letter and to know how you still think of EFDS¹ and all your English friends in these times. I was interested to hear of your daughter’s musical career.

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friend Mazzoleni who was a very brilliant pupil at the RCM² is now a professor at Toronto.

I see a good deal now of our mutual friend Maud Karpeles – she is very busy with Refugee musicians among other things. May we once more meet again in happier times

Yrs very sincerely

R Vaughan Williams

1. English Folk Dance Society

2. The conductor Ettore Mazzoleni, who studied at the Royal College of Music where VW taught for some years.