THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Monday [18 July 1938]

Dear one

Lovely to have 2 sleds¹ from you today – I send proofs² – I’ve skipped through & corrections seem to me to be all right –
Page 17 – isn’t a slur wanted last bar L.H.
Mary Gardiner writes she has all the music – scores & parts – shall she send it to the respective composers?³
I think we won’t come to Salisbury but will meet you somewhere [at] Woking or elsewhere within a day’s drive whichever day you come – Saturday?⁴
So glad you will take a day off – and perhaps get in a visit to Salisbury as well
A grey day – but nice – Hon⁵ enjoyed her tennis yesterday – Molly & Liz (looking so sweet in rose pink cotton)⁶ & Alan Horne.
AVW

1. i.e. letters
2. Of the Serenade.
3. Presumably of the pageant England’s Pleasant Land, for which music had been composed by William Cole, Mary Couper [Mary Gardiner], David Moule-Evans, Julian Gardiner, John Ticehurst and VW.
4. VW was ‘ on retreat’ to overcome writer’s block, staying in Salisbury.
5. Honorine WIlliamson, a young relative of AVW who lived with the VWs for some years.
6. Molly and Elizabeth Darbyshire. Elizabeth Darbyshire gave VW lessons in the clarinet. See R.V.W.: a biography,  p.195.