THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, SURREY.

5th October, 1949.

Dear Edmund¹

Thank you so much for the new Mass² which has only just arrived.

I should like very much to come, if possible, on the 26th, but cannot be certain yet; but I hope we shall meet on October 17th.

Yrs

RVW

(R. Vaughan Williams).

Edmund Rubbra, Esq.,
Valley Cottage,
Speen,
Aylesbury, BUCKS.

1.  In manuscript.
2.  Rubbra’s new work was Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, composed in 1948 to mark his conversion to Catholiism on August 8, the feast of St Dominic, and published in 1949.