THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, Surrey.

18th February, 1953.

Dear Gerald

I hear from Lady Croft that the Butterworth Trust has sent £40.
I understand from Harvey Phillips¹ that the total cost will be £48, so here is the balance from the Cheeseworth Trust.²
Yrs
RVW

(R. Vaughan Williams).

Gerald Finzi, Esq.,
Ashmansworth,
near Newbury, Berks.

1. Cellist and conductor.
2. See also VWL2617. The event was possibly a concert by the Harvey Phillips String Orchestra in Chelsea Town Hall on 19 February – VW’s Partita and John Buckland’s Pieta (also Tchaikovsky’s Serenade).
The ‘Cheeseworth Trust’ was VW’s joke; he would fund the balance himself.