THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

10 Barton Street
Westminster

October 13 [1900?]

Dear Herr Gatty
Here are a few of the photographs I took at Hooton: the only ones that are ready so far.  Ralph irreverently suggests that under the one of Ivor¹ should be written ‘what do you say God’?  Don’t think to write – but let us have a postcard some time to say how you are.  When you are better I hope you will take the six weeks holiday that is owing to you – it would be very nice to see you again.  If you came, say at the end of the month, I w^d make you take Ralph back with you at Xmas for a weeks holiday & Nicholas would go too I hope.
We had a very pleasant evening with y^r brethren yesterday – we all went to hear a Beethoven programme at the Queen’s Hall & had supper together afterwards.  Ivor has got a piano & plays Beethoven sonatas & Schuberts songs!  Nicholas is writing something that promises to be very beautiful.  Is y^r piano sonata finished yet.  You must bring it with you when you come, perhaps you are already at work at something new.  Have you started on Paul Verlaine?
I have been reading a lot of Anatole France – a very charming writer – novels & stories.  Ralph send his love.
yours always
Adeline Vaughan Williams