THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,
SURREY.

22nd. June, 1950

Dear Mrs. Thomson,

Thank you very much for your letter and for the good wishes of your choir.
I enjoyed your photograph very much.
As regards the new tune for you to sing I fear that I have so many things to do which I have promised already that I must not venture on anything else, but I do feel that the ‘New Commonwealth’ exactly meets all your requirements.¹
Yours sincerely,

R. Vaughan Williams

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

1. Catalogue of Works 1940/3. The song, words by Harold Child, was adapted from the Prelude to The 49th Parallel.