THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

17th July, 1947.

Dear Mrs. Thomson,

Many thanks for your letter and the programme.  I think it is very doubtful whether I can come, but I will note the date in case it is possible.  Anyway, I shall be with you in spirit.
As regards Prometheus, I reluctantly have to say ‘no’, as I have so many things that I must finish and which will take me, I should think, at least three years.¹
Yours sincerely,

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  Mrs Thomson had asked VW to write incidental music to Aeschylus’ tragedy Prometheus Bound to be performed in a translation by her husband George Thomson, Professor of Greek at Birmingham University.