THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

Oct 13 [1946]

Dear Barter

Thank you & all your singers for remembering my birthday – I have such grateful recollections of all that you & your choir have meant to me.¹
If ever I write another choral work I cannot wish better than that you should perform it
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  VW’s 74th birthday had been the day before. The Bristol Philharmonic Society had given the third performance, in April 1911, of A Sea Symphony.