THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[1943]

Dear Martin
Forgive war time paper.
You know I can’t read a score, so I had to wait for leisure to strum your new tune through on the pfte.  I like the 1st. 2 movements immensely.  I have not yet quite cottoned on to the Final – but that will probably come when I hear it played on Flute & Pianoforte (not on the hooter & sewing machine please).¹
The OUP have done well for us this year.
My love to Joan & all yours
yrs
RVW

1.  Shaw’s Sonata for flute and piano in E flat was published by Cramer in 1942.