THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
SW3

[1929]

Dear Maud
I was so glad to get your letter – & know you are having a little rest tho’ ever more rather adverse circumstances. I have little to report; I worked steadily for about 8 weeks  – & then spasmodically for 2 & then back to London – large quantity but poor quality I fear.
I wonder what sort of time you are having in U.S.A. – it w^d be very good if we c^d really get it to spread in America¹ – though I suppose the only people who w^d take it up w^d be the “Portuguese & the Argentines & the Armenians and the Greeks”²
Have a good time when your work is over & don’t stay away from us too long
Yrs
RVW

1. Karpeles was in the USA to collect folksongs from 1929-1930. 
2. The song “The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks” was popular in the 1920s and first recorded in 1920.