THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

19th August, 1948.

Dear Arthur

Thank you so much for letting me know about Waddington.¹  I wish I could see him.  One never meets him without learning something and that without any show-off on his part.  I also heard of him from a friend of mine, Robert Muller Hartmann who was down at Lyme and they had several long and interesting conversations together.
I am always so grateful to him for all the help he gave me, though it was always with great difficulty that I persuaded him to criticise anything of mine.
I must try and arrange soon to come and hear the record of your Symphony.²
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

Arthur Benjamin, Esq.,
3, Gloucester Gate Mews,
London, N.W.1.

1.  S.P. Waddington, now apparently living in Lyme Regis.
2.  Benjamin’s symphony, written in 1944-45 and dedicated to VW, had received its first performance at Cheltenham this year.