THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[2 December 1935]

Dearest Harriet

I have been telephoning to your house several times & am so glad to hear that you are going on well.¹
I am going to send you the min: score of my Symph² – you won’t be able to read it because it is too small – but the outside cover is quite nice!  I wonder how you enjoyed the foreign critics party and was your dress much admired?³
I do hope you will be up and about soon – the town is desolate without you
Yrs

RVW

1.  Cohen had become ill in early November – see VWL808.
2.  Symphony no.4.

3. The British Council was entertaining a bevy of foreign music critics in the week beginning Monday 18 November. They went to Oxford on Tuesday the 19th, and saw Job at Sadler’s Wells that same evening. They came to the concert on 20 November (see VWL811) and heard VW’s Symphony no.4. There was clearly a party after these events.