THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

Sept 22 1946

Dear Barter

Thank you very much – I have passed on the name to Mr Cooper.¹
I hear on all hands what a fine show Dyson gave of my tune – In a way I wish I had been there – on the other hand in that case I should probably have had to conduct it and this fine performance w^d have been lost.²
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1. See VWL2098.
2. This letter relates to a performance of the Benedicite, Catalogue of Works 1929/1, at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford which had been rehearsed at the Royal College of Music. George Dyson’s Quo Vadis was also being given at the festival. See R.V.W.: a biography, p.269. Another letter about this performance is to Gerald Finzi – VWL2097.