THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

June 23 1943

My Dear Bessy
It was very dear of you to write – I do wish you could hear it¹ – It is all very quiet & not at all like the one before – I thought Foss² did an almost impossible task very well.
I must tell you that we have had happy letters from the Löwenbachs who are in New York – He is quite well again and is doing journalistic work on a Czech paper published in New York
Love from
Ralph

1. The Fifth Symphony to be performed the next evening, 24^th June, at the Albert Hall.
2. Hubert Foss, former manager of the Oxford University Press Music Department. This may refer to a talk given by Foss on Saturday June 20^th on the BBC Home Service, about VW’s Fifth Symphony. The musical illustrations were played on two pianos by Hubert Foss and Alan Richardson.