THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[late 1930s?]

Dear Maud
Please forgive my delay in answering. The tickets were mine, please – If you and Dr Wells [?] will accept them
I’ve looked at the “Swallow” – it seems quite good though perhaps a little over elaborate¹
Yrs
RVW

1. “She’s Like the Swallow”, one of the fifteen folk songs that Maud collected in Newfoundland and published with VW’s accompaniments in 1934. Karpeles wrote that her life would have been worthwhile if collecting “She’s Like the Swallow” had been all that she had done.