THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, Surrey.

24th December, 1952

Dear Bessie

Thank you very much for your letter and this sends you all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year.
I listened-in to Mr. Jones’ Symphony , but did not make much of it. It was very long and rather incoherent to my mind, but I was tired when I listened, and I think I fell asleep over part of it!¹
Love from

Ralph

Mrs. Trevelyan
The Shiffolds,
Hombury St. Mary,
Dorking.

1.  Daniel Jones’s Symphony No. 2 (1950) was broadcast twice in December – on the Home Service on 17 December (BBC SO / Walter Goehr) and then on the Third Programme on 18 December, by the same performers as part of a different programme. The third symphony had been broadcast in June so this was by no means a new work.