THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[September, 1931]

Dear Gustav

I played through the fantasia¹ again yesterday & it is most beautiful – I know you don’t care, but I just want to tell the press (and especially Foxy²) that they are misbegotten abortions.
Yrs

RVW

1.  A Choral Fantasia, which had received its first performance at Gloucester on 8 September to critical disappointment.
2.  A.H. Fox-Strangways.