THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regent’s Park,
London, N.W.1.

Feb 25 [1956]

Dear Mr Cruft¹
MY wife has shewn me your kind invitation – unfortunately I have to be in Manchester that day conducting the Matthew Passion. I am so sorry that things clash like this
All good luck to your concert
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams

1. Secretary of the London Symphony Orchestra. The invitation was to a concert at the Royal Festival Hall on March 18^th where Barbirolli was conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the Tallis Fantasia, with works by Beethoven, Chausson and Brahms’s 4th Symphony.