THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates, Dorking

Sunday [1949?]

Dear Isidore
I did not know you were running a quartet of your own and I expect you would like to bring it and I shall be quite happy over that.  However, of the names you suggest they are all good, but Jean Stewart is probably too occupied with domesticity to want to come – at all events if she does come she must not bring her husband¹ and baby.  We have only just room for the essential peeople and singers and simply cannot find space for husbands and babies.  Other names from from² the LHMC list are Veronica Gotch, viola and Eileen M^cCarthy cello.  There is also M^rs Marsden cello but she is an amateur though just as good as any professional, but she has not been well lately.  Anyhow you might not think ait a good plan to mix the brew.
Now – one more point!  Our pfte is slightly flat.  Could you bear to tune down to it, or must I get in another pfte?
With fond regards to M^rs Schwiller
yrs
R Vaughan Williams

1.  George Dickinson Hadley.
2.  sic.