THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

22nd. June, 1949.

Dear Mrs. Thomson,

Thank you very much for the delightful photographs, which remind me of a very pleasurable visit to Birmingham.
I feel so pleased that your young people like the Opera, and for one reason perhaps even more than any other – that it introduces many of them, I believe for the first time to Shakespeare, which is worth doing, even for no other reason.¹
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

Mrs. Thomson,
84, Oakfield Road,
Selly Park,
Birmingham

1. This relates to the (first) production of Sir John in Love by the Clarion Singers in Birmingham in March 1949.