THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Jarvenpäa

August 22, 1952.

Dear Dr. Vaughan Williams,

Please accept my warmest congratulations on the occasion of your 80th birthday.  I thank you most cordially for the many unforgettable hours that your magnificent and in their artistic perfectness so very admirable works have given me.  Especially I wish to mention the patriotic, i.e. the very English nature of your compositions which I always have liked so much.
With gratitude and admiration,
Yours very sincerely,

Jean Sibelius