THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[4th December 1942 ]

Dear Gerald

I am thoroughly ashamed of myself. I was waiting to thank you for the music till I had been able to go through it again.¹ – But I haven’t had time (Gustav used to say that really busy people never say they haven’t time, so I can’t be really busy).
– The truth is that I am ‘with Film’ (as E. N.² w^d say) once more – the gestation period of a film composer seems more like a cat than a human.
Yrs
RVW

1. Presumably Let us garlands bring, which Finzi wrote for VW for his 70th birthday; see VWL1701.
2. Ernest Newman, the music critic.