THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, Surrey.

19th November, l952.

Dear Hubert

Thank you so much for your letter and the quotations from the lady’s letter.¹
If one’s music can help in that kind of way one feels that one’s time has not altogether been wasted.
RVW

Hubert Foss, Esq.,
60, Corringham Road,
London, N.W.11.

1. Foss had received a letter from a Jessie Eades in Gatehead who wrote: ‘… I would also like to thank you specially for the autographed copy of your book on Vaughan Williams which arrived today.  I shall always treasure this in memory of your visit. As I told you I could never express in words what Vaughan Williams’s music means to me. It was and is my greatest comfort in the loss I sustained during the war. When depressed with that awful feeling of the futility of things I have only to put on records of his works to feel that in spite of everything there is meaning in life & that the ultimate good is “good”.’