THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

Dec 15 [1949]

Dear Armstrong

Here is a small good-will offering for Xmas.¹
I expect you have already chosen something else. If not these are at your service.²
Yrs

RVW

1.Three Shakespeare Songs (Catalogue of Works 1951/3, p.222). See VWL2005.
2. The work was used as a test piece at the British Federation of Music Festivals National Competitive Festival in 1951. Gibbs, who was the adjudicator for the competition, which ran during the week ending 23 June 1951, conducted the Three Shakespeare Songs in the final concert in the 23^rd, in the presence of Princess Elizabeth.